Central Subway bests Barneys
Rachel Gordon
January 13 2010
sfgate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...#ixzz0cVrzxxSO
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency the green light to reclaim a portion of a high-end retailer's basement sales area to make room for the $1.6 billion Central Subway project that will run from China Basin to Chinatown.
On a 10-0 vote, supervisors yanked permission for Barneys New York to use a portion of public space below a downtown sidewalk for a perfume and cosmetics counter.
The revocable permit was issued three years ago when the purveyor of luxury goods moved into the Union Square property at Stockton and O'Farrell streets.