Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, said in a recent interview published this week that San Francisco and the Bay Area are in trouble.
Offering a dire outlook of the city, he said the downtown area is “never going back to the way it was” before COVID-19 when workers commuted to San Francisco’s offices on a daily basis.
“We need to rebalance downtown,” said Mr. Benioff, whose company is the largest employer in San Francisco and an anchor tenant, to The Associated Press. He said the mayor’s office needs to come up with a program to turn dormant office space into housing and hire additional police officers to deal with a surge in crime….