[BTinSF]

^^^I agree with that. It may well be premature to open the businesses now although Starbucks in particular has the resources to grab a prime location and wait for the neighborhood to bring them customers. But from a development perspective, it's a question of including space for retail in the projects, not whether it's occupied right now.

I do have a more general but related question: Do we know when there will be more housing development (aside from blocks 10/10A) south of the creek? To this outsider it seems like not much is happening in those blocks (2,3,4,5,6,7,11,12,13) but they would be where the customers for coffee shops and the like might come from (plus students and lab rats).