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The vacancy rate varies, with cities like Los Angeles, Houston and Cincinnati hovering around 25% and cities like Savannah, Georgia, and Naples, Florida coming in under 5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high vacancy rate is about more than just the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1230211370/empty-office-buildings-litter-cities-but-real-estate-expert-says-expect-change-s\">shift to a work-from-home culture because of the COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, according to David Smith, the head of Americas Insights at Cushman & Wakefield, who authored the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really four factors over the last few years that have impacted office occupancy,” he told NPR. “One is we’ve had a lot of economic uncertainty going back to 2020 and early 2021 and then, again, certainly over the last year as interest rates have risen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith also factors in remote and hybrid work, the surplus of new constructions more appealing to office seekers and a pivot to subleased space to help offset the costs of owning office real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these challenges, Smith is optimistic that vacancy is reaching a peak and that a return to office spaces is imminent for two main reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One is we expect to see job growth accelerate when we head into 2025 and beyond and that office-using industries, in particular, will take up a disproportionate share of new jobs that are created,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And two, we’re tracking several hundred different companies and their policies around in-office work. And all of them, if they’ve changed their policies over the last couple of years, are actually moving towards having people in more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An uncertain return to the office\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The debate around return-to-office policies has been playing out for well over a year now as bosses and workers navigate what a post-pandemic world should look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the private sector, in-office requirements were becoming stricter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1196731284/return-to-office-rto-hybrid-remote-work-from-home-zoom\">NPR’s Andrea Hsu reported in September\u003c/a>, echoing what Smith’s policy tracking has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11955554 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630100-Van-Ness-MB-KQED-1020x453.jpg']“What we’ve found is, people have enjoyed coming back to the office,” Zoom’s chief people officer, Matthew Saxon, said last year. “There is a buzz. There’s something about being able to go have lunch with your teammates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoom is just one company on a growing list that is veering away from remote work by bumping up weekly mandatory days in the office for employees. Some other companies have started requiring employees to move near office hubs and have begun eliminating fully remote positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is despite some workers reporting higher levels of job satisfaction, work-life balance and productivity when given the choice between working remotely or in the office, and some researchers saying that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227828564/has-remote-work-really-been-tragic-for-big-companies-bottom-lines\">in-office presence has not helped big companies make more money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A possible pivot away from office space altogether\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the U.S. faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/24/1221480443/most-homes-for-sale-in-2023-were-not-affordable-for-a-typical-u-s-household\">well-documented housing problem\u003c/a> and as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1174938708/commercial-real-estate-property-offices-work-from-home-remote-work\">office-building landlords face a vacancy crisis\u003c/a>, some people have begun exploring whether there could be a mutually beneficial resolution for the two groups — converting empty buildings into residential housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976145\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1020x336.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1536x506.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-2048x675.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1920x633.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The 100 Van Ness building in San Francisco, which was built in 1974, was converted from office space to residential apartment units in 2012. Right: The kitchen and living space of a converted apartment unit at 100 Van Ness, on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">relaxed rules for some office-to-residential conversions\u003c/a>. In Washington, D.C., the mayor \u003ca href=\"https://dcist.com/story/23/04/05/dc-bowser-budget-downtown-tax-breaks/\">proposed bigger tax breaks for office conversions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet converting spaces has proved \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189403058/downtown-real-estate-housing-offices\">expensive, complicated and time-consuming\u003c/a>, with the process often also steeped in bureaucracy. It’s also harder to do for buildings constructed after 1950, according to Robert Fuller of the architecture firm Gensler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the kind of older prewar office buildings have already been converted and tend to work fairly well,” Fuller told NPR last year. “What we’re seeing now is a flood of buildings built in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s that were much deeper. The advent of air conditioning and fluorescent lighting allowed these much larger floor-plate buildings, and those tend to be a little bit more challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Robert Fuller, architect and Residential leader, Gensler\"]‘A lot of the kind of older prewar office buildings have already been converted and tend to work fairly well. What we’re seeing now is a flood of buildings built in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s that were much deeper … and those tend to be a little bit more challenging.’[/pullquote]That’s because the center is often darker and doesn’t get sunlight, which makes conversion into homes harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Cushman & Wakefield’s Smith, he said the office will continue to be part of the U.S. landscape for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the long-term trajectory is that the office is a central part of the economy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is an opportunity for the office market as well to redevelop itself. And actually, in 10 or 15 years, we’ll look back and the office market will have revolutionized itself in a really exciting way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview with David Smith was conducted by Sacha Pfeiffer, produced by Alejandra Marquez Janse and edited by Sarah Handel.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As the US faces a housing problem and as office-building landlords face a vacancy crisis, some people have begun exploring converting empty buildings into residential housing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709166596,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1006},"headData":{"title":"Could Vacant Office Spaces Across the US Be the Solution to a National Housing Problem? | KQED","description":"As the US faces a housing problem and as office-building landlords face a vacancy crisis, some people have begun exploring converting empty buildings into residential housing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Could Vacant Office Spaces Across the US Be the Solution to a National Housing Problem?","datePublished":"2024-02-16T20:00:51.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-29T00:29:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1004889801/manuela-lopez-restrepo\">Manuela López Restrepo\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976049/could-vacant-office-spaces-across-the-us-be-the-solution-to-a-national-housing-problem","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Across the United States, empty office buildings are leaving once-bustling downtown areas with less foot traffic and are forcing experts, residents and officials to figure out what exactly will happen with these vacant structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cw-gbl-gws-prod.azureedge.net/-/media/cw/marketbeat-pdfs/2023/q4/us-reports/office/us_office_marketbeat_q4-2023.pdf?rev=1c7acb477abe4e89b557c770f643bd10\">recent study from the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield\u003c/a> found that about a fifth of U.S. office space was vacant as of the end of last year. The vacancy rate varies, with cities like Los Angeles, Houston and Cincinnati hovering around 25% and cities like Savannah, Georgia, and Naples, Florida coming in under 5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high vacancy rate is about more than just the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1230211370/empty-office-buildings-litter-cities-but-real-estate-expert-says-expect-change-s\">shift to a work-from-home culture because of the COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, according to David Smith, the head of Americas Insights at Cushman & Wakefield, who authored the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really four factors over the last few years that have impacted office occupancy,” he told NPR. “One is we’ve had a lot of economic uncertainty going back to 2020 and early 2021 and then, again, certainly over the last year as interest rates have risen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith also factors in remote and hybrid work, the surplus of new constructions more appealing to office seekers and a pivot to subleased space to help offset the costs of owning office real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these challenges, Smith is optimistic that vacancy is reaching a peak and that a return to office spaces is imminent for two main reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One is we expect to see job growth accelerate when we head into 2025 and beyond and that office-using industries, in particular, will take up a disproportionate share of new jobs that are created,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And two, we’re tracking several hundred different companies and their policies around in-office work. And all of them, if they’ve changed their policies over the last couple of years, are actually moving towards having people in more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An uncertain return to the office\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The debate around return-to-office policies has been playing out for well over a year now as bosses and workers navigate what a post-pandemic world should look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the private sector, in-office requirements were becoming stricter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1196731284/return-to-office-rto-hybrid-remote-work-from-home-zoom\">NPR’s Andrea Hsu reported in September\u003c/a>, echoing what Smith’s policy tracking has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11955554","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630100-Van-Ness-MB-KQED-1020x453.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What we’ve found is, people have enjoyed coming back to the office,” Zoom’s chief people officer, Matthew Saxon, said last year. “There is a buzz. There’s something about being able to go have lunch with your teammates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoom is just one company on a growing list that is veering away from remote work by bumping up weekly mandatory days in the office for employees. Some other companies have started requiring employees to move near office hubs and have begun eliminating fully remote positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is despite some workers reporting higher levels of job satisfaction, work-life balance and productivity when given the choice between working remotely or in the office, and some researchers saying that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227828564/has-remote-work-really-been-tragic-for-big-companies-bottom-lines\">in-office presence has not helped big companies make more money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A possible pivot away from office space altogether\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the U.S. faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/24/1221480443/most-homes-for-sale-in-2023-were-not-affordable-for-a-typical-u-s-household\">well-documented housing problem\u003c/a> and as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1174938708/commercial-real-estate-property-offices-work-from-home-remote-work\">office-building landlords face a vacancy crisis\u003c/a>, some people have begun exploring whether there could be a mutually beneficial resolution for the two groups — converting empty buildings into residential housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976145\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1020x336.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1536x506.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-2048x675.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1920x633.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The 100 Van Ness building in San Francisco, which was built in 1974, was converted from office space to residential apartment units in 2012. Right: The kitchen and living space of a converted apartment unit at 100 Van Ness, on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">relaxed rules for some office-to-residential conversions\u003c/a>. In Washington, D.C., the mayor \u003ca href=\"https://dcist.com/story/23/04/05/dc-bowser-budget-downtown-tax-breaks/\">proposed bigger tax breaks for office conversions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet converting spaces has proved \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189403058/downtown-real-estate-housing-offices\">expensive, complicated and time-consuming\u003c/a>, with the process often also steeped in bureaucracy. It’s also harder to do for buildings constructed after 1950, according to Robert Fuller of the architecture firm Gensler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the kind of older prewar office buildings have already been converted and tend to work fairly well,” Fuller told NPR last year. “What we’re seeing now is a flood of buildings built in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s that were much deeper. The advent of air conditioning and fluorescent lighting allowed these much larger floor-plate buildings, and those tend to be a little bit more challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘A lot of the kind of older prewar office buildings have already been converted and tend to work fairly well. What we’re seeing now is a flood of buildings built in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s that were much deeper … and those tend to be a little bit more challenging.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Robert Fuller, architect and Residential leader, Gensler","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s because the center is often darker and doesn’t get sunlight, which makes conversion into homes harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Cushman & Wakefield’s Smith, he said the office will continue to be part of the U.S. landscape for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the long-term trajectory is that the office is a central part of the economy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is an opportunity for the office market as well to redevelop itself. And actually, in 10 or 15 years, we’ll look back and the office market will have revolutionized itself in a really exciting way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview with David Smith was conducted by Sacha Pfeiffer, produced by Alejandra Marquez Janse and edited by Sarah Handel.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976049/could-vacant-office-spaces-across-the-us-be-the-solution-to-a-national-housing-problem","authors":["byline_news_11976049"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_32847","news_27626","news_1775","news_38"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11976056","label":"news_253"},"news_11974855":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11974855","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11974855","score":null,"sort":[1707480013000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-business-gives-old-mannequins-new-youth-and-a-new-life-almost","title":"How This Oakland Business Gives Mannequins New Life (Almost)","publishDate":1707480013,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How This Oakland Business Gives Mannequins New Life (Almost) | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When you step inside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mannequinmadness.com/\">Mannequin Madness\u003c/a> warehouse in Oakland, you’re greeted by a mind-boggling assortment of mannequins for rent or sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not always just mannequins with a head,” smiled founder Judi Henderson. “There’s legs, there’s feet, there’s butts. One of these boxes here is just full of heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even a life-sized mannequin of former President Barack Obama next to a plastic chest tied up in Shibari rope. A little something for every taste at Mannequin Madness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants make decorative headdresses during a headdress workshop at Mannequin Madness in Oakland on Jan. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen every cross-section of society coming through here,” Henderson said. “Every age group, every nationality, every sex and sexual orientation.” But Henderson said the biggest holidays for mannequin shopping are Halloween and Burning Man. “Burning Man is like my Christmas,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blame it on Tina!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Henderson is a stylish 66-year-old Black entrepreneur who’s built a mannequin empire inside a warehouse near Oakland’s Jack London Square that once housed a \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/California_Cotton_Mills\">historic cotton mill.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971900\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man helps a woman put on a headdress.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector Villacorta (left) helps Julia Gunn try on a headdress at Mannequin Madness during a headdress workshop in Oakland on Jan. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I blame it all on Tina,” said Henderson, who was searching for Tina Turner concert tickets one night when she came across a listing for a mannequin for sale on Craigslist. Her impulsive buy would set the course for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Judi Henderson, founder and president, Mannequin Madness\"]‘Secondhand or used does not necessarily mean that it’s in disrepair or it’s in poor condition. I like to feel we’re giving a new youth for something old, kind of like myself.’[/pullquote]“[The seller] just casually told me that he ran the only mannequin rental business in town,” Henderson said, “and now that he was leaving the Bay Area, there wouldn’t be a place to rent a mannequin in the area anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson pondered for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was already looking for a side hustle,” she said, “but most people don’t know a good opportunity when they see it.” Henderson figured this might be her long-awaited shot at becoming an entrepreneur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was working at a dot-com in the early days of the internet,” said Henderson, who worked in sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was before ‘girl boss’ became part of the culture,” she said. So she had to sit back and watch while many of her white male colleagues saw their careers skyrocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People around a table during a workshop with colorful headdresses and materials strewn around. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Hector Villacorta (center) leads a headdress workshop at Mannequin Madness in Oakland on Jan. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t any smarter than I was,” Henderson said, “but they were confident and resilient and had resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once she met the mannequin seller on Craigslist, Henderson realized she was staring at her opportunity. “So I bought all 50 of his mannequins,” Henderson said, “and I started Mannequin Madness Rental Company out of my house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping mannequins out of the landfill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I found out that department stores would throw mannequins in the trash,” Henderson said. She did some research and was alarmed to learn just how much waste was present in the mannequin business. If a store needed to update their mannequins as styles changed, they would just toss the old ones in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mannequins are made out of materials that don’t biodegrade. Things like fiberglass and styrofoam,” she said, gesturing toward a collection of different types of mannequins. ”I knew these didn’t belong in a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Henderson came up with a plan to help the environment and expand her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mannequins in the Mannequin Madness warehouse on Dec. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I started making retailers an offer they couldn’t refuse,” Henderson said with pride. “I would recycle their mannequins for free, saving them on waste disposal fees.” Henderson would send a truck to pick up the old mannequins at no cost to the retailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gave me inventory, and I went from 50 to 500 mannequins within a six-month period of time,” she said, “which gave me enough to not just rent but to sell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Consumed by Mannequin Madness\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Henderson suddenly found herself unemployed. The dot-com folded, and suddenly, she found herself without an income and with a house full of mannequins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971896\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971896\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Henderson, the president at Mannequin Madness, inspects a child-sized sewing format in the Mannequin Madness warehouse on Dec. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I decided to make Mannequin Madness my full-time venture,” Henderson said. She began searching for a more suitable home for her inventory, landing on the 3,200-square-foot warehouse in Oakland (1031 Cotton Street) that’s now open to the public three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors — many of them first-time mannequin buyers — come searching for mannequins for art projects or just to ogle at Henderson’s collection. She also offers mannequin art classes, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.mannequinmadness.com/pages/the-headdress-work-shop\">a workshop\u003c/a> in making fantasy headdresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Secondhand or used does not necessarily mean that it’s in disrepair or it’s in poor condition,” Henderson said. “I like to feel we’re giving a new youth for something old, kind of like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland’s Mannequin Madness is a warehouse full of secondhand mannequins that are given new life by founder and owner Judi Henderson, whether for rent, sale or for art projects.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707501294,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":994},"headData":{"title":"How This Oakland Business Gives Mannequins New Life (Almost) | KQED","description":"Oakland’s Mannequin Madness is a warehouse full of secondhand mannequins that are given new life by founder and owner Judi Henderson, whether for rent, sale or for art projects.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How This Oakland Business Gives Mannequins New Life (Almost)","datePublished":"2024-02-09T12:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-09T17:54:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/88e1c849-e30c-4d69-b314-b10e017a79f4/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11974855/oakland-business-gives-old-mannequins-new-youth-and-a-new-life-almost","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you step inside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mannequinmadness.com/\">Mannequin Madness\u003c/a> warehouse in Oakland, you’re greeted by a mind-boggling assortment of mannequins for rent or sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not always just mannequins with a head,” smiled founder Judi Henderson. “There’s legs, there’s feet, there’s butts. One of these boxes here is just full of heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even a life-sized mannequin of former President Barack Obama next to a plastic chest tied up in Shibari rope. A little something for every taste at Mannequin Madness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants make decorative headdresses during a headdress workshop at Mannequin Madness in Oakland on Jan. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen every cross-section of society coming through here,” Henderson said. “Every age group, every nationality, every sex and sexual orientation.” But Henderson said the biggest holidays for mannequin shopping are Halloween and Burning Man. “Burning Man is like my Christmas,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blame it on Tina!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Henderson is a stylish 66-year-old Black entrepreneur who’s built a mannequin empire inside a warehouse near Oakland’s Jack London Square that once housed a \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/California_Cotton_Mills\">historic cotton mill.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971900\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man helps a woman put on a headdress.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector Villacorta (left) helps Julia Gunn try on a headdress at Mannequin Madness during a headdress workshop in Oakland on Jan. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I blame it all on Tina,” said Henderson, who was searching for Tina Turner concert tickets one night when she came across a listing for a mannequin for sale on Craigslist. Her impulsive buy would set the course for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Secondhand or used does not necessarily mean that it’s in disrepair or it’s in poor condition. I like to feel we’re giving a new youth for something old, kind of like myself.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Judi Henderson, founder and president, Mannequin Madness","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“[The seller] just casually told me that he ran the only mannequin rental business in town,” Henderson said, “and now that he was leaving the Bay Area, there wouldn’t be a place to rent a mannequin in the area anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson pondered for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was already looking for a side hustle,” she said, “but most people don’t know a good opportunity when they see it.” Henderson figured this might be her long-awaited shot at becoming an entrepreneur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was working at a dot-com in the early days of the internet,” said Henderson, who worked in sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was before ‘girl boss’ became part of the culture,” she said. So she had to sit back and watch while many of her white male colleagues saw their careers skyrocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People around a table during a workshop with colorful headdresses and materials strewn around. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Hector Villacorta (center) leads a headdress workshop at Mannequin Madness in Oakland on Jan. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t any smarter than I was,” Henderson said, “but they were confident and resilient and had resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once she met the mannequin seller on Craigslist, Henderson realized she was staring at her opportunity. “So I bought all 50 of his mannequins,” Henderson said, “and I started Mannequin Madness Rental Company out of my house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping mannequins out of the landfill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I found out that department stores would throw mannequins in the trash,” Henderson said. She did some research and was alarmed to learn just how much waste was present in the mannequin business. If a store needed to update their mannequins as styles changed, they would just toss the old ones in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mannequins are made out of materials that don’t biodegrade. Things like fiberglass and styrofoam,” she said, gesturing toward a collection of different types of mannequins. ”I knew these didn’t belong in a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Henderson came up with a plan to help the environment and expand her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mannequins in the Mannequin Madness warehouse on Dec. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I started making retailers an offer they couldn’t refuse,” Henderson said with pride. “I would recycle their mannequins for free, saving them on waste disposal fees.” Henderson would send a truck to pick up the old mannequins at no cost to the retailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gave me inventory, and I went from 50 to 500 mannequins within a six-month period of time,” she said, “which gave me enough to not just rent but to sell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Consumed by Mannequin Madness\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Henderson suddenly found herself unemployed. The dot-com folded, and suddenly, she found herself without an income and with a house full of mannequins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971896\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971896\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/231212-MANNEQUIN-MADNESS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Henderson, the president at Mannequin Madness, inspects a child-sized sewing format in the Mannequin Madness warehouse on Dec. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I decided to make Mannequin Madness my full-time venture,” Henderson said. She began searching for a more suitable home for her inventory, landing on the 3,200-square-foot warehouse in Oakland (1031 Cotton Street) that’s now open to the public three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors — many of them first-time mannequin buyers — come searching for mannequins for art projects or just to ogle at Henderson’s collection. She also offers mannequin art classes, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.mannequinmadness.com/pages/the-headdress-work-shop\">a workshop\u003c/a> in making fantasy headdresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Secondhand or used does not necessarily mean that it’s in disrepair or it’s in poor condition,” Henderson said. “I like to feel we’re giving a new youth for something old, kind of like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11974855/oakland-business-gives-old-mannequins-new-youth-and-a-new-life-almost","authors":["11749"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"series":["news_29825"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_27626","news_19623","news_18","news_20851","news_30162"],"featImg":"news_11975238","label":"news_26731"},"news_11973939":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11973939","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11973939","score":null,"sort":[1706360404000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"employees-at-san-franciscos-landmark-city-lights-join-union-bookstore-intends-to-recognize-it","title":"San Francisco's City Lights Employees Join Union, Bookstore Recognizes It","publishDate":1706360404,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco’s City Lights Employees Join Union, Bookstore Recognizes It | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:00 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights management has officially recognized its first employee union, confirmed Stacey Lewis, vice president and director of publicity, marketing and sales at the world-famous independent bookstore and publishing house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move paves the way for booksellers and other eligible employees, who formed City Lights Workers Union, to begin collective bargaining with representation from Industrial Workers of the World, Local 660.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel happy that we are now one step closer to bargaining for a better, more equitable workplace,” said Joan Toledo, 35, a worker organizer at City Lights. “I imagine that all my co-workers feel the same way because, who doesn’t want to work in a better workplace?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, City Lights said managers will work with union representatives to create a “more sustainable future” for staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/city-lights\">City Lights Booksellers & Publishers\u003c/a> in San Francisco have chosen to unionize, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 16 or so eligible employees recently signed union-authorization cards and joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iww.org/\">Industrial Workers of the World\u003c/a> Local 660. The labor organization, established in 1905, represents nearly 9,000 workers across North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booksellers at City Lights told KQED that some of the top goals for workers are raising “abysmal” pay, establishing a formal process to address grievances and increasing job security for part-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Decca Muldowney, employee, City Lights\"]‘We think that the union is a way to protect City Lights for the future and to help further the original radical vision of the bookstore and the publishing house.’[/pullquote]“What we want more than anything is for City Lights to be a sustainable, thriving community,” said Decca Muldowney, 34, who makes San Francisco’s minimum wage of $18.07 per hour. “We think that the union is a way to protect City Lights for the future and to help further the original radical vision of the bookstore and the publishing house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights was \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/our-story/a-short-history-of-city-lights/\">co-founded\u003c/a> in 1953 by acclaimed poet and activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893125/lawrence-ferlinghetti-beat-poet-and-small-press-publisher-dies-at-101\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c/a> as a literary meeting place. The cultural institution, perhaps best known for first publishing Allen Ginsburg’s \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/pocket-poets-series/howl-other-poems-pocket-poets-4/\">\u003cem>Howl and Other Poems\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and its ensuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/fighting-censorship-victories-1957-2017-aclutimemachine\">battle for freedom of speech\u003c/a> with the state, was named a historic landmark in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have the right to\u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union#:~:text=If%20a%20majority%20of%20workers,NLRB%20will%20conduct%20an%20election.\"> start their own unions or join one\u003c/a>. But if their employer refuses to recognize it as their representative for collective bargaining, workers may turn to the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election and certify the vote results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/30/1196712525/the-latest-gallop-poll-finds-two-thirds-of-americans-approve-of-unions\">polls\u003c/a> suggest most Americans approve of unions. But only \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf\">10% (PDF)\u003c/a> of wage and salaried workers in the U.S. were members last year, down from 20% in 1983, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, Noah Ross, a delegate with the IWW said union interest is high among bookstores, nonprofits and businesses in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a moment in labor at large where people want more voice in their contracts. They want a seat at the table in negotiating how they are treated at their workplace,” said Ross, who previously worked at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, which also joined the IWW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights bargaining collectively would be “huge for the larger bookstore union wave we’ve seen and also for Labor,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elaine Katzenberger, executive director, City Lights\"]‘If unionization can provide us with new tools for helping us to better achieve these ideals, we absolutely welcome them.’[/pullquote]Previous efforts to unionize workers at the bookstore fizzled, said Muldowney, a writer and freelance journalist who previously worked at The Daily Beast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, a months-long effort to organize has led to workers asking management to voluntarily \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union#:~:text=If%20a%20majority%20of%20workers,NLRB%20will%20conduct%20an%20election.\">recognize\u003c/a> their union, with a decision expected by next Tuesday at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do intend to recognize this union,” City Lights Executive Director Elaine Katzenberger wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City Lights has always been actively engaged in the project of creating and evolving a fulfilling, equitable, and humane workplace. This is a key to our institutional philosophy, and it has informed our practice from the beginning,” said Katzenberger. “If unionization can provide us with new tools for helping us to better achieve these ideals, we absolutely welcome them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Most eligible City Lights employees joined Industrial Workers of the World, Local 660 after a months-long organizing campaign. Management at the world-famous independent bookstore agreed to voluntarily recognize the union, in response to a recent employee request.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706637298,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":758},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco's City Lights Employees Join Union, Bookstore Recognizes It | KQED","description":"Most eligible City Lights employees joined Industrial Workers of the World, Local 660 after a months-long organizing campaign. Management at the world-famous independent bookstore agreed to voluntarily recognize the union, in response to a recent employee request.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Francisco's City Lights Employees Join Union, Bookstore Recognizes It","datePublished":"2024-01-27T13:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-30T17:54:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11973939/employees-at-san-franciscos-landmark-city-lights-join-union-bookstore-intends-to-recognize-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:00 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights management has officially recognized its first employee union, confirmed Stacey Lewis, vice president and director of publicity, marketing and sales at the world-famous independent bookstore and publishing house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move paves the way for booksellers and other eligible employees, who formed City Lights Workers Union, to begin collective bargaining with representation from Industrial Workers of the World, Local 660.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel happy that we are now one step closer to bargaining for a better, more equitable workplace,” said Joan Toledo, 35, a worker organizer at City Lights. “I imagine that all my co-workers feel the same way because, who doesn’t want to work in a better workplace?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, City Lights said managers will work with union representatives to create a “more sustainable future” for staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/city-lights\">City Lights Booksellers & Publishers\u003c/a> in San Francisco have chosen to unionize, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 16 or so eligible employees recently signed union-authorization cards and joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iww.org/\">Industrial Workers of the World\u003c/a> Local 660. The labor organization, established in 1905, represents nearly 9,000 workers across North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booksellers at City Lights told KQED that some of the top goals for workers are raising “abysmal” pay, establishing a formal process to address grievances and increasing job security for part-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We think that the union is a way to protect City Lights for the future and to help further the original radical vision of the bookstore and the publishing house.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Decca Muldowney, employee, City Lights","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What we want more than anything is for City Lights to be a sustainable, thriving community,” said Decca Muldowney, 34, who makes San Francisco’s minimum wage of $18.07 per hour. “We think that the union is a way to protect City Lights for the future and to help further the original radical vision of the bookstore and the publishing house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights was \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/our-story/a-short-history-of-city-lights/\">co-founded\u003c/a> in 1953 by acclaimed poet and activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893125/lawrence-ferlinghetti-beat-poet-and-small-press-publisher-dies-at-101\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c/a> as a literary meeting place. The cultural institution, perhaps best known for first publishing Allen Ginsburg’s \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/pocket-poets-series/howl-other-poems-pocket-poets-4/\">\u003cem>Howl and Other Poems\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and its ensuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/fighting-censorship-victories-1957-2017-aclutimemachine\">battle for freedom of speech\u003c/a> with the state, was named a historic landmark in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have the right to\u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union#:~:text=If%20a%20majority%20of%20workers,NLRB%20will%20conduct%20an%20election.\"> start their own unions or join one\u003c/a>. But if their employer refuses to recognize it as their representative for collective bargaining, workers may turn to the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election and certify the vote results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/30/1196712525/the-latest-gallop-poll-finds-two-thirds-of-americans-approve-of-unions\">polls\u003c/a> suggest most Americans approve of unions. But only \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf\">10% (PDF)\u003c/a> of wage and salaried workers in the U.S. were members last year, down from 20% in 1983, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, Noah Ross, a delegate with the IWW said union interest is high among bookstores, nonprofits and businesses in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a moment in labor at large where people want more voice in their contracts. They want a seat at the table in negotiating how they are treated at their workplace,” said Ross, who previously worked at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, which also joined the IWW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights bargaining collectively would be “huge for the larger bookstore union wave we’ve seen and also for Labor,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If unionization can provide us with new tools for helping us to better achieve these ideals, we absolutely welcome them.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Elaine Katzenberger, executive director, City Lights","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Previous efforts to unionize workers at the bookstore fizzled, said Muldowney, a writer and freelance journalist who previously worked at The Daily Beast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, a months-long effort to organize has led to workers asking management to voluntarily \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union#:~:text=If%20a%20majority%20of%20workers,NLRB%20will%20conduct%20an%20election.\">recognize\u003c/a> their union, with a decision expected by next Tuesday at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do intend to recognize this union,” City Lights Executive Director Elaine Katzenberger wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City Lights has always been actively engaged in the project of creating and evolving a fulfilling, equitable, and humane workplace. This is a key to our institutional philosophy, and it has informed our practice from the beginning,” said Katzenberger. “If unionization can provide us with new tools for helping us to better achieve these ideals, we absolutely welcome them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11973939/employees-at-san-franciscos-landmark-city-lights-join-union-bookstore-intends-to-recognize-it","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_19133","news_18880","news_17611","news_22973","news_2659"],"featImg":"news_11973947","label":"news"},"news_11969893":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969893","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11969893","score":null,"sort":[1702900804000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-anchor-workers-move-forward-with-efforts-to-resurrect-beloved-sf-beer","title":"Former Anchor Workers Move Forward With Efforts to Resurrect Beloved SF Beer","publishDate":1702900804,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Former Anchor Workers Move Forward With Efforts to Resurrect Beloved SF Beer | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>For the first time since 1975, Bay Area beer lovers will be forced to forgo a holiday staple this year: Anchor Brewing’s Christmas Ale. Japanese brewing giant Sapporo — which acquired Anchor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969212/how-san-franciscos-anchor-brewing-started-the-craft-beer-craze\">the nation’s first craft brewery\u003c/a>, in 2017 — shut it down in the summer, leaving fans hurting and a handful of unionized employees motivated to bring it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Anchor fans flocked to San Francisco’s BuzzWorks sports bar, just a five-minute drive from the recently closed brewery. They came to drink the last of the bar’s Anchor Steam beer kegs and to bid on the 11 Christmas Ale magnum-sized bottles the bar had stockpiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To beer fanatics Noel Hansen and Andy Beresford, the holidays aren’t the holidays without Anchor Christmas Ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cousin would be bringing the turkey in a cooler full of ice water, and he’d have the magnum next to it. Chilling. That’s the tradition, you know, in an igloo cooler out on the patio,” Hansen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beresford flew in from Scottsdale, Arizona, to try to score some Christmas Ale at the SF BuzzWorks event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Anchor workers were also in attendance, passing out flyers to inform people of the \u003ca href=\"https://anchorcooperative.com/\">Anchor SF Cooperative\u003c/a> — a group of five previous workers vying to bring back the beer they once brewed now that the 127-year-old company’s assets are up for auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Patrick Machel, Anchor SF Cooperative board chair\"]‘We’re so tied in with what the history of San Francisco is. We’ve survived earthquakes, two world wars… if you talk to anyone that’s worked there, it’s one of the best times in their life.’[/pullquote]After Sapporo announced in July that they were going to shut down Anchor, employees only had a few weeks to get organized. By September, a team of former brewers, production workers and bartenders assembled the Anchor SF Cooperative with the mission of keeping the beer brewed in the city by an employee-owned company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anchor’s employees have a history of banding together. In 2019, Anchor employees \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2019/12/breaking-anchor-brewery-workers-overwhelmingly-approve-first-union-contract/\">became the first unionized craft brewing company in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new co-op \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/rbx7b-help-workers-save-anchor-brewing\">started a GoFundMe\u003c/a> on Sept. 1 to help pay for legal services and employee business ownership counseling — and they surpassed their $50,000 campaign goal by more than double.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Patrick Machel, board chair of the Anchor SF Cooperative and former beer packaging lead, Anchor is much more than a brewery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anchor Steam, at this point in time, is a San Francisco institution,” he said. “We’re so tied in with what the history of San Francisco is. We’ve survived earthquakes, two world wars … if you talk to anyone that’s worked there, it’s one of the best times in their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchor SF Cooperative members share information about their efforts to buy back the intellectual property of Anchor Brewing at an SF BuzzWorks event on Dec. 9. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brewery cooperatives, while rare, are not unheard of — but operating them can mean dealing with some unique regulatory and licensing challenges. As California’s first co-op brewery, Umunhum Brewing in San Jose encountered some of these challenges, which Anchor and any other brewers looking to operate as a co-op are likely to face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umunhum Brewing Board President Travis Alexander said brewing cooperatives can be challenging due to the communal nature of ownership. When applying for licenses to make and distribute alcohol, California’s Alcoholic Beverage Control board requires a list of people who have more than 10% ownership in a company. In the Umunhum cooperative, there are over 500 members who have an equal share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are different from what everyone else is doing, and so we have to get the approval from agencies who are saying, ‘Why don’t you look like everything else coming through?’ ” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander notes that cooperatives can take different approaches to funding. Umunhum started out by offering anyone in the state of California a lifetime membership for $150.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A member-ownership model funds most cooperatives. Sacramento brewery New Helvetia Brewing Company \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2023/11/29/new-helvetia-brewing-cooperative-ownership.html\">is also fighting to stay alive by switching to an employee-owned model\u003c/a>. According to their \u003ca href=\"https://www.newhelvetiabrew.com/coopmembership\">website\u003c/a>, a $300 membership fee includes becoming a legal part-owner of the brewery, as well as product discounts and decision-making power about the brewery’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anchor’s cooperative’s effort to get off the ground is a unique case due to the additional burden of needing to bid on the company’s assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Umunhum, Alexander said Anchor does not have the luxury of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got a time constraint, first of all. If they don’t act quickly enough, they lose the opportunity. They can’t do our method,” Alexander said. “But also because they have the expertise and all the tools they need, I think the method they’re doing is the right approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s all about the bidding process’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The cooperative \u003ca href=\"https://wefunder.com/anchorsf/\">launched a crowdfunding effort on Wefunder on Nov. 17\u003c/a>. Investments begin at a minimum of $250, which gives an investor a stock certificate of ownership. The plan is to start by leveraging those funds to buy Anchor’s intellectual property, which includes recipes and trademarks, with the goal of eventually securing a lease in San Francisco at either the old De Haro Street brewery location or elsewhere and to begin brewing again in early 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machel calls this phase “testing the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, it’s opening [funding] up to everybody, seeing how much we can get and if there’s a viable path this way,” he said. “With this phase, there’s a lot more legal language around it because we’re dealing with bigger securities, big investments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machel said the cooperative hopes to raise a minimum of $2.5 million — but ideally, they hope to get the Wefunder maximum of $5 million. They see this as the best strategy forward if they want to keep the beer brewed in the city where it was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11969212]If the cooperative successfully obtains the IP, they would be the only ones able to brew Anchor beer recipes, potentially attracting investors who could support their plan to continue brewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, intellectual property lawyer and patent law professor at the University of San Francisco Michael Dergosits said most cases like this come down to money and that the background interest of bidders is generally irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about the bidding process,” Derogsits said. “And the company who is responsible for selling the assets probably has some fiduciary obligation to Sapporo to get the best price for as much as possible for as many of the assets as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapporo tasked financial services company Hilco Global to handle asset liquidation and the private bidding process on Anchor’s intellectual property, real estate and brewing equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cooperative and other potential bidders are unclear on the timeline of negotiations. A Sapporo spokesperson said that discussions on how assets should be divided up would happen this month and could run into the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the cooperative only intends to begin by bidding on the IP, Machel believes their experience incentivizes potential partnerships with other buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the knowledge and the people that understand those machines more than anybody else would,” he said. “This isn’t a normal brewery. You can’t just hire a packager or a brewer or whoever and just expect them to go in and it be turnkey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker checks the fermentation tanks at Anchor Public Taps in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. After more than 127 years of brewing in San Francisco, Anchor Brewing was shut down by its owner, Sapporo, at the end of July. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Machel is confident in their strategy to buy the IP, co-op board treasurer and former brewmaster, Dane Volek sees things going differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’ll get it. I think someone else will, but I think we’ll be working with that person. So no, but yes, maybe. Who knows?” Volek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volek, 37, has worked for Anchor Brewing since he was a 19-year-old sophomore studying kinesiology at San Francisco State University. He started in the packing department. By the time he graduated, he had no plans of leaving Anchor and wound up working almost every position at the brewery until becoming the master brewer in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Volek isn’t sure their bid will actually be successful, he is optimistic about Anchor’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had some conversations with a couple different parties that are making bids… for the entire kit and caboodle, as they say,” Volek said. “They’ve been positive conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those conversations have been with venture capitalist Mike Walsh, a long-time Anchor fan who has been looking at ways to save the brewery since its closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The co-op] wanted us to submit a bid with them, but we didn’t want to rush into the work needed. We thought we needed to evaluate exactly how the co-op would work,” Walsh said. “But we certainly want every former employee that wants to be involved, involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchor SF Cooperative flyers sit on a table as members share information about their efforts to buy back the intellectual property of Anchor Brewing at the SF BuzzWorks event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walsh and his team of investors submitted a bid on Nov. 17 for all the assets, including the real estate and machinery, and feel confident in their offer. He said he’s less interested in profit and more interested in keeping the first craft brewery in the nation alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a native, but I built my career in San Francisco, and with the incredible beating it’s getting right now, I just think that this can’t be another dead soldier in the battle of the pandemic,” Walsh said. “It’s kind of my way to give back to San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walsh said he expects the buyer to be announced at the end of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cooperative is successful, Machel said they’re ready to get back to brewing dad beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we are, what we’re good at,” he said. “People, when they think of Anchor Brewing, they think of steam beer. They think of California lager, porter, fog horn, the classics. And that’s kind of what we’re gonna focus on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volek has always been a fan of both brewing and drinking the Anchor Christmas ale. Anchor’s previous owner, Fritz Maytag, who saved Anchor from closure in 1965, once told him that making the Christmas Ale was like making a curry: spice-rich for both the mouth and the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as the spices go in the kettle, or when they’re doing the strike in the hop separators, spitting the hops out, multiple floors of the brewery would be filled with these spicey elements,” Volek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Christmas, he’s anticipating opening a few bottles he’s stockpiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still have magnums going back to 2008 Christmas ale. I’m sure this year, we’ll do a big vertical with people and open a few bottles. Make some room in the beer cave,” Volek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still has about a case and a half left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Anchor SF Cooperative, formed by workers after the brewery shut down, aims to buy back the beloved San Francisco beer and brew it in the city by an employee-owned company. Their first step is obtaining the IP.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704413552,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":2034},"headData":{"title":"Former Anchor Workers Move Forward With Efforts to Resurrect Beloved SF Beer | KQED","description":"The Anchor SF Cooperative, formed by workers after the brewery shut down, aims to buy back the beloved San Francisco beer and brew it in the city by an employee-owned company. 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Japanese brewing giant Sapporo — which acquired Anchor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969212/how-san-franciscos-anchor-brewing-started-the-craft-beer-craze\">the nation’s first craft brewery\u003c/a>, in 2017 — shut it down in the summer, leaving fans hurting and a handful of unionized employees motivated to bring it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Anchor fans flocked to San Francisco’s BuzzWorks sports bar, just a five-minute drive from the recently closed brewery. They came to drink the last of the bar’s Anchor Steam beer kegs and to bid on the 11 Christmas Ale magnum-sized bottles the bar had stockpiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To beer fanatics Noel Hansen and Andy Beresford, the holidays aren’t the holidays without Anchor Christmas Ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cousin would be bringing the turkey in a cooler full of ice water, and he’d have the magnum next to it. Chilling. That’s the tradition, you know, in an igloo cooler out on the patio,” Hansen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beresford flew in from Scottsdale, Arizona, to try to score some Christmas Ale at the SF BuzzWorks event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Anchor workers were also in attendance, passing out flyers to inform people of the \u003ca href=\"https://anchorcooperative.com/\">Anchor SF Cooperative\u003c/a> — a group of five previous workers vying to bring back the beer they once brewed now that the 127-year-old company’s assets are up for auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re so tied in with what the history of San Francisco is. We’ve survived earthquakes, two world wars… if you talk to anyone that’s worked there, it’s one of the best times in their life.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Patrick Machel, Anchor SF Cooperative board chair","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After Sapporo announced in July that they were going to shut down Anchor, employees only had a few weeks to get organized. By September, a team of former brewers, production workers and bartenders assembled the Anchor SF Cooperative with the mission of keeping the beer brewed in the city by an employee-owned company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anchor’s employees have a history of banding together. In 2019, Anchor employees \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2019/12/breaking-anchor-brewery-workers-overwhelmingly-approve-first-union-contract/\">became the first unionized craft brewing company in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new co-op \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/rbx7b-help-workers-save-anchor-brewing\">started a GoFundMe\u003c/a> on Sept. 1 to help pay for legal services and employee business ownership counseling — and they surpassed their $50,000 campaign goal by more than double.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Patrick Machel, board chair of the Anchor SF Cooperative and former beer packaging lead, Anchor is much more than a brewery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anchor Steam, at this point in time, is a San Francisco institution,” he said. “We’re so tied in with what the history of San Francisco is. We’ve survived earthquakes, two world wars … if you talk to anyone that’s worked there, it’s one of the best times in their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchor SF Cooperative members share information about their efforts to buy back the intellectual property of Anchor Brewing at an SF BuzzWorks event on Dec. 9. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brewery cooperatives, while rare, are not unheard of — but operating them can mean dealing with some unique regulatory and licensing challenges. As California’s first co-op brewery, Umunhum Brewing in San Jose encountered some of these challenges, which Anchor and any other brewers looking to operate as a co-op are likely to face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umunhum Brewing Board President Travis Alexander said brewing cooperatives can be challenging due to the communal nature of ownership. When applying for licenses to make and distribute alcohol, California’s Alcoholic Beverage Control board requires a list of people who have more than 10% ownership in a company. In the Umunhum cooperative, there are over 500 members who have an equal share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are different from what everyone else is doing, and so we have to get the approval from agencies who are saying, ‘Why don’t you look like everything else coming through?’ ” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander notes that cooperatives can take different approaches to funding. Umunhum started out by offering anyone in the state of California a lifetime membership for $150.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A member-ownership model funds most cooperatives. Sacramento brewery New Helvetia Brewing Company \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2023/11/29/new-helvetia-brewing-cooperative-ownership.html\">is also fighting to stay alive by switching to an employee-owned model\u003c/a>. According to their \u003ca href=\"https://www.newhelvetiabrew.com/coopmembership\">website\u003c/a>, a $300 membership fee includes becoming a legal part-owner of the brewery, as well as product discounts and decision-making power about the brewery’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anchor’s cooperative’s effort to get off the ground is a unique case due to the additional burden of needing to bid on the company’s assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Umunhum, Alexander said Anchor does not have the luxury of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got a time constraint, first of all. If they don’t act quickly enough, they lose the opportunity. They can’t do our method,” Alexander said. “But also because they have the expertise and all the tools they need, I think the method they’re doing is the right approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s all about the bidding process’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The cooperative \u003ca href=\"https://wefunder.com/anchorsf/\">launched a crowdfunding effort on Wefunder on Nov. 17\u003c/a>. Investments begin at a minimum of $250, which gives an investor a stock certificate of ownership. The plan is to start by leveraging those funds to buy Anchor’s intellectual property, which includes recipes and trademarks, with the goal of eventually securing a lease in San Francisco at either the old De Haro Street brewery location or elsewhere and to begin brewing again in early 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machel calls this phase “testing the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, it’s opening [funding] up to everybody, seeing how much we can get and if there’s a viable path this way,” he said. “With this phase, there’s a lot more legal language around it because we’re dealing with bigger securities, big investments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machel said the cooperative hopes to raise a minimum of $2.5 million — but ideally, they hope to get the Wefunder maximum of $5 million. They see this as the best strategy forward if they want to keep the beer brewed in the city where it was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11969212","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the cooperative successfully obtains the IP, they would be the only ones able to brew Anchor beer recipes, potentially attracting investors who could support their plan to continue brewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, intellectual property lawyer and patent law professor at the University of San Francisco Michael Dergosits said most cases like this come down to money and that the background interest of bidders is generally irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about the bidding process,” Derogsits said. “And the company who is responsible for selling the assets probably has some fiduciary obligation to Sapporo to get the best price for as much as possible for as many of the assets as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapporo tasked financial services company Hilco Global to handle asset liquidation and the private bidding process on Anchor’s intellectual property, real estate and brewing equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cooperative and other potential bidders are unclear on the timeline of negotiations. A Sapporo spokesperson said that discussions on how assets should be divided up would happen this month and could run into the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the cooperative only intends to begin by bidding on the IP, Machel believes their experience incentivizes potential partnerships with other buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the knowledge and the people that understand those machines more than anybody else would,” he said. “This isn’t a normal brewery. You can’t just hire a packager or a brewer or whoever and just expect them to go in and it be turnkey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230714-AnchorBrewing-12-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker checks the fermentation tanks at Anchor Public Taps in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. After more than 127 years of brewing in San Francisco, Anchor Brewing was shut down by its owner, Sapporo, at the end of July. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Machel is confident in their strategy to buy the IP, co-op board treasurer and former brewmaster, Dane Volek sees things going differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’ll get it. I think someone else will, but I think we’ll be working with that person. So no, but yes, maybe. Who knows?” Volek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volek, 37, has worked for Anchor Brewing since he was a 19-year-old sophomore studying kinesiology at San Francisco State University. He started in the packing department. By the time he graduated, he had no plans of leaving Anchor and wound up working almost every position at the brewery until becoming the master brewer in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Volek isn’t sure their bid will actually be successful, he is optimistic about Anchor’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had some conversations with a couple different parties that are making bids… for the entire kit and caboodle, as they say,” Volek said. “They’ve been positive conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those conversations have been with venture capitalist Mike Walsh, a long-time Anchor fan who has been looking at ways to save the brewery since its closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The co-op] wanted us to submit a bid with them, but we didn’t want to rush into the work needed. We thought we needed to evaluate exactly how the co-op would work,” Walsh said. “But we certainly want every former employee that wants to be involved, involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchor SF Cooperative flyers sit on a table as members share information about their efforts to buy back the intellectual property of Anchor Brewing at the SF BuzzWorks event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walsh and his team of investors submitted a bid on Nov. 17 for all the assets, including the real estate and machinery, and feel confident in their offer. He said he’s less interested in profit and more interested in keeping the first craft brewery in the nation alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a native, but I built my career in San Francisco, and with the incredible beating it’s getting right now, I just think that this can’t be another dead soldier in the battle of the pandemic,” Walsh said. “It’s kind of my way to give back to San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walsh said he expects the buyer to be announced at the end of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cooperative is successful, Machel said they’re ready to get back to brewing dad beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we are, what we’re good at,” he said. “People, when they think of Anchor Brewing, they think of steam beer. They think of California lager, porter, fog horn, the classics. And that’s kind of what we’re gonna focus on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volek has always been a fan of both brewing and drinking the Anchor Christmas ale. Anchor’s previous owner, Fritz Maytag, who saved Anchor from closure in 1965, once told him that making the Christmas Ale was like making a curry: spice-rich for both the mouth and the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as the spices go in the kettle, or when they’re doing the strike in the hop separators, spitting the hops out, multiple floors of the brewery would be filled with these spicey elements,” Volek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Christmas, he’s anticipating opening a few bottles he’s stockpiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still have magnums going back to 2008 Christmas ale. I’m sure this year, we’ll do a big vertical with people and open a few bottles. Make some room in the beer cave,” Volek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still has about a case and a half left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11969893/former-anchor-workers-move-forward-with-efforts-to-resurrect-beloved-sf-beer","authors":["11880"],"categories":["news_24114","news_8"],"tags":["news_32908","news_21212","news_17611","news_27626","news_20482","news_38","news_32359"],"featImg":"news_11969590","label":"source_news_11969893"},"news_11953787":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11953787","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11953787","score":null,"sort":[1687514405000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"saving-downtown-san-francisco","title":"Could a ‘Boom Loop’ Save Downtown San Francisco?","publishDate":1687514405,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Could a ‘Boom Loop’ Save Downtown San Francisco? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ve probably seen and heard the stories about downtown San Francisco. Fears about crime and safety, as well as low foot traffic because of the move to remote work, have left many buildings and businesses hollowed out. Downtown is in trouble, and the stakes (and dollar figures) are high. 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Fears about crime and safety, as well as low foot traffic because of the move to remote work, have left many buildings and businesses hollowed out. Downtown is in trouble, and the stakes (and dollar figures) are high. So what’s being done to save it from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-doom-loop-imprecise-thinkpieces-18106896.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this so-called urban ‘doom loop’\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3Yf2GMS\">Episode transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest: \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/author/kevin-truong/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin Truong\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, business and economics reporter for The SF Standard\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7244494688&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11953787/saving-downtown-san-francisco","authors":["11649","11844","8654"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_17611","news_32848","news_32847","news_1761","news_38","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11420025","label":"source_news_11953787"},"news_11945976":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11945976","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11945976","score":null,"sort":[1680905001000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"could-a-four-day-week-work-in-california-some-lawmakers-think-so","title":"Could a Four-Day Workweek Happen in California? Some Lawmakers Think So","publishDate":1680905001,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Could a Four-Day Workweek Happen in California? Some Lawmakers Think So | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It’s Thursday evening. You pack up your things at work and hit the road. Maybe you’re thinking about a lunch plan you’ve got with a friend or a show you plan to binge. But you’re not thinking about clocking in tomorrow: You’ve got a three-day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All your weekends, in fact, are three-day weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a utopian vision for some. The standard work week in the U.S. has been stuck at 40 hours for almost a century, even as workers have become dramatically more productive. Evidence from pilot programs suggests that shifting to 32-hour weeks without reducing pay is better for workers and doesn’t hurt revenues. Companies that try it largely stick with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the idea say most businesses would incur increased costs they couldn’t bear as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers have considered — however briefly — legislation that would allow workers to propose alternate 40-hour weeks, such as four, 10-hour days, more than a dozen times since 2005. While business groups oppose the idea of paying workers the same rate for eight fewer working hours per week, they do support giving individual workers the option to propose alternate 40-hour schedules. Labor groups, however, oppose that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the debate and why most Californians are unlikely to get a four-day workweek in the near future.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is a four-day workweek up for grabs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 40-hour week wasn’t preordained. Economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted in 1930 that productivity and living standards over the next century would rise so much that, by 2030, we would only have to work for 15 hours per week. In 1956, then-Vice President Richard Nixon predicted a four-day workweek in the “not too distant future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither prediction came true. Keynes was right that productivity would increase, but wrong about the consequences for workers. That may finally be changing. In recent years, advocates and researchers have been building a case for the viability of a shorter workweek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Iceland, for example, trials in 2015 and 2017 shifted workers to 35- or 36-hour weeks without a reduction in pay. The tests spanned government agencies, schools, police stations, hospital departments and more, affecting more than 2,500 workers. Worker well-being and work-life balance improved while productivity was maintained or increased across the majority of workplaces, according to a report from Autonomy, a progressive think tank that consults with companies looking to shift to a four-day workweek.[aside label=\"More Business Stories\" tag=\"business\"]A more recent trial in the United Kingdom found similar results. In 2022, more than five dozen companies in industries from marketing to manufacturing reduced work hours in one of several ways — a coordinated extra day off, or staggered days off, or an annualized 32-hour week for companies with seasonal demands — while maintaining pay. The report, authored by Autonomy and including analysis from researchers at the University of Cambridge and Boston College, found that workers’ stress decreased on average, and most workers found it easier to balance work and caregiving commitments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were benefits for businesses, too: The rate of workers quitting decreased during the trial, and revenue remained essentially steady, increasing by 1.4% on average. By the end of the seven-month trial, 92% of the companies said they would continue the policy, and 18% decided it would be a permanent change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco-based social media management company Buffer decided to try a four-day week in May 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, Julia Cummings remembers feeling excited and relieved. Cummings, a senior customer advocate with the company, was living in New York at the time. The extra day gave her time to run errands when grocery stores were less crowded, she said. “We’re humans, and we have all of these actual duties outside of work,” she said. Having the “space to do that just felt really like, ‘Phew! OK, cool, this is great.'”[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Julia Cummings, senior customer advocate, Buffer\"]‘We’re humans, and we have all of these actual duties outside of work.’[/pullquote]When the trial started, Buffer’s CEO wrote that the aim was to improve employees’ well-being. “This isn’t about us trying to get the same productivity in fewer days,” he wrote in a company blog post. But after internal surveys and data showed sustained productivity, the company decided in 2021 to stick with the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cummings, who now lives in Los Angeles, the shift to a four-day week meant experimenting with staggered days off so that the customer support team could maintain quick response times. Customers don’t seem concerned with the reduced schedule, she said, and during a time when companies have been struggling to attract and retain workers, “I think overall we view it as a competitive advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Buffer’s experience isn’t universal. The managing director of Allcap, an engineering and industrial supplies company that participated in the U.K. trial, told the BBC that the company quickly ran into problems, finding that more intense workdays were exhausting workers and that they couldn’t find sufficient coverage for the extra days off. The company ultimately withdrew some of its trade sites from the trial a couple months early. Los Angeles-based market research firm Alter Agents tried a four-day workweek in 2021, and ended the experiment after finding employee satisfaction was down, \u003cem>Fast Company\u003c/em> reported. The company has shifted to giving employees an extra day off per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not everyone is sold\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the successful trials, some experts are skeptical that shrinking the workweek makes sense across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential benefit for employers of reducing work hours is that productivity per hour could go up, said Matthew Bidwell, professor of management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. But are the increases large enough to offset eight hours of work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I doubt the increases in productivity are that large,” he said. “I suspect for most people in most jobs, working a four-day week does mean you’re getting a little less done, at least in the long run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People get paid, to some extent, based on how valuable they are to their employers, so if we are all getting a little less done, we are going to get paid less in the long run, he said. Some people might prefer that trade-off, but not everybody, Bidwell said.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Matthew Bidwell, professor of management, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania\"]‘I suspect for most people in most jobs, working a four-day week does mean you’re getting a little less done, at least in the long run.’[/pullquote]Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economist, pointed out shortcomings with the trials, saying the companies that participated aren’t representative of the overall economy: They opted in to the trial, and there was no control group. “Only firms that think the four-day week works for them will sign up for this study,” he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a 32-hour workweek requirement for large businesses was introduced in the California Legislature last year, business groups pushed back hard. The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Evan Low, a Cupertino Democrat, would have required companies with more than 500 employees to shift to a 32-hour week without reducing pay, and pay overtime after 32 hours. Dozens of employer groups opposed the bill, saying it would impose “a tremendous cost on employers” and would discourage job growth in California. The bill died without a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our point of view is if that’s something that a business wants to do, great, they absolutely have the power to do that,” said Ashley Hoffman, policy advocate with the California Chamber of Commerce, which opposed Low’s bill. But a mandated “one-size-fits-all approach” forces it on employers for whom it doesn’t make sense, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More proposals in the works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are other ideas to make four-day workweeks a reality for more Californians — with different approaches and boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One would allow individual employees to propose alternate 40-hour workweeks, like working 10 hours a day, four days a week. That bill was introduced this year by state Sen. Roger Niello, a Republican from Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now if workers want alternate schedules, they need a two-thirds vote of their “work unit,” which could be all the workers in a department or on a shift. The bill would also change how overtime pay works. In most states, overtime kicks in after 40 hours per week, but in California workers are also paid overtime after eight hours in a day. If the bill were to pass, employees could request alternate schedules, and if the schedule is approved, they would receive overtime after 10 hours in a day or 40 in a week.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Assemblymember Evan Low\"]‘The goal is to reimagine the workforce and improve the lives of millions of Californians.’[/pullquote]Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, support the bill, saying that the existing process is complicated, but that employees want the option of flexibility. A poll from Marketplace and Edison Research found that nearly two-thirds of workers polled said they’d prefer working 10 hours a day, four days a week to the standard eight-hour days, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is unlikely to pass, however; the idea has been proposed at least 14 times since 2005 and has never made it out of committee. It is opposed by the California Labor Federation, an umbrella organization for unions, which wrote in a letter to lawmakers that it “would erode the fundamental right to an eight-hour day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another proposal comes from Low. This year, instead of a 32-hour-per-week requirement for all large companies, he’s proposed a pilot program that would provide grants to companies that want to try a 32-hour week schedule without reducing pay. Companies that participate would have to evaluate the impact of the trial and share their findings with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal,” Low wrote in an email, “is to reimagine the workforce and improve the lives of millions of Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Evidence from pilot programs shows that 32-hour weeks are feasible, but business groups in California say it won’t work for all companies. Lawmakers in California and DC are introducing bills that would encourage or require shortened workweeks.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1680908213,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1804},"headData":{"title":"Could a Four-Day Workweek Happen in California? Some Lawmakers Think So | KQED","description":"Evidence from pilot programs shows that 32-hour weeks are feasible, but business groups in California say it won’t work for all companies. Lawmakers in California and DC are introducing bills that would encourage or require shortened workweeks.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Could a Four-Day Workweek Happen in California? 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Maybe you’re thinking about a lunch plan you’ve got with a friend or a show you plan to binge. But you’re not thinking about clocking in tomorrow: You’ve got a three-day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All your weekends, in fact, are three-day weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a utopian vision for some. The standard work week in the U.S. has been stuck at 40 hours for almost a century, even as workers have become dramatically more productive. Evidence from pilot programs suggests that shifting to 32-hour weeks without reducing pay is better for workers and doesn’t hurt revenues. Companies that try it largely stick with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the idea say most businesses would incur increased costs they couldn’t bear as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers have considered — however briefly — legislation that would allow workers to propose alternate 40-hour weeks, such as four, 10-hour days, more than a dozen times since 2005. While business groups oppose the idea of paying workers the same rate for eight fewer working hours per week, they do support giving individual workers the option to propose alternate 40-hour schedules. Labor groups, however, oppose that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the debate and why most Californians are unlikely to get a four-day workweek in the near future.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is a four-day workweek up for grabs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 40-hour week wasn’t preordained. Economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted in 1930 that productivity and living standards over the next century would rise so much that, by 2030, we would only have to work for 15 hours per week. In 1956, then-Vice President Richard Nixon predicted a four-day workweek in the “not too distant future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither prediction came true. Keynes was right that productivity would increase, but wrong about the consequences for workers. That may finally be changing. In recent years, advocates and researchers have been building a case for the viability of a shorter workweek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Iceland, for example, trials in 2015 and 2017 shifted workers to 35- or 36-hour weeks without a reduction in pay. The tests spanned government agencies, schools, police stations, hospital departments and more, affecting more than 2,500 workers. Worker well-being and work-life balance improved while productivity was maintained or increased across the majority of workplaces, according to a report from Autonomy, a progressive think tank that consults with companies looking to shift to a four-day workweek.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Business Stories ","tag":"business"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A more recent trial in the United Kingdom found similar results. In 2022, more than five dozen companies in industries from marketing to manufacturing reduced work hours in one of several ways — a coordinated extra day off, or staggered days off, or an annualized 32-hour week for companies with seasonal demands — while maintaining pay. The report, authored by Autonomy and including analysis from researchers at the University of Cambridge and Boston College, found that workers’ stress decreased on average, and most workers found it easier to balance work and caregiving commitments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were benefits for businesses, too: The rate of workers quitting decreased during the trial, and revenue remained essentially steady, increasing by 1.4% on average. By the end of the seven-month trial, 92% of the companies said they would continue the policy, and 18% decided it would be a permanent change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco-based social media management company Buffer decided to try a four-day week in May 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, Julia Cummings remembers feeling excited and relieved. Cummings, a senior customer advocate with the company, was living in New York at the time. The extra day gave her time to run errands when grocery stores were less crowded, she said. “We’re humans, and we have all of these actual duties outside of work,” she said. Having the “space to do that just felt really like, ‘Phew! OK, cool, this is great.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re humans, and we have all of these actual duties outside of work.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Julia Cummings, senior customer advocate, Buffer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When the trial started, Buffer’s CEO wrote that the aim was to improve employees’ well-being. “This isn’t about us trying to get the same productivity in fewer days,” he wrote in a company blog post. But after internal surveys and data showed sustained productivity, the company decided in 2021 to stick with the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cummings, who now lives in Los Angeles, the shift to a four-day week meant experimenting with staggered days off so that the customer support team could maintain quick response times. Customers don’t seem concerned with the reduced schedule, she said, and during a time when companies have been struggling to attract and retain workers, “I think overall we view it as a competitive advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Buffer’s experience isn’t universal. The managing director of Allcap, an engineering and industrial supplies company that participated in the U.K. trial, told the BBC that the company quickly ran into problems, finding that more intense workdays were exhausting workers and that they couldn’t find sufficient coverage for the extra days off. The company ultimately withdrew some of its trade sites from the trial a couple months early. Los Angeles-based market research firm Alter Agents tried a four-day workweek in 2021, and ended the experiment after finding employee satisfaction was down, \u003cem>Fast Company\u003c/em> reported. The company has shifted to giving employees an extra day off per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not everyone is sold\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the successful trials, some experts are skeptical that shrinking the workweek makes sense across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential benefit for employers of reducing work hours is that productivity per hour could go up, said Matthew Bidwell, professor of management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. But are the increases large enough to offset eight hours of work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I doubt the increases in productivity are that large,” he said. “I suspect for most people in most jobs, working a four-day week does mean you’re getting a little less done, at least in the long run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People get paid, to some extent, based on how valuable they are to their employers, so if we are all getting a little less done, we are going to get paid less in the long run, he said. Some people might prefer that trade-off, but not everybody, Bidwell said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I suspect for most people in most jobs, working a four-day week does mean you’re getting a little less done, at least in the long run.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Matthew Bidwell, professor of management, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economist, pointed out shortcomings with the trials, saying the companies that participated aren’t representative of the overall economy: They opted in to the trial, and there was no control group. “Only firms that think the four-day week works for them will sign up for this study,” he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a 32-hour workweek requirement for large businesses was introduced in the California Legislature last year, business groups pushed back hard. The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Evan Low, a Cupertino Democrat, would have required companies with more than 500 employees to shift to a 32-hour week without reducing pay, and pay overtime after 32 hours. Dozens of employer groups opposed the bill, saying it would impose “a tremendous cost on employers” and would discourage job growth in California. The bill died without a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our point of view is if that’s something that a business wants to do, great, they absolutely have the power to do that,” said Ashley Hoffman, policy advocate with the California Chamber of Commerce, which opposed Low’s bill. But a mandated “one-size-fits-all approach” forces it on employers for whom it doesn’t make sense, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More proposals in the works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are other ideas to make four-day workweeks a reality for more Californians — with different approaches and boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One would allow individual employees to propose alternate 40-hour workweeks, like working 10 hours a day, four days a week. That bill was introduced this year by state Sen. Roger Niello, a Republican from Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now if workers want alternate schedules, they need a two-thirds vote of their “work unit,” which could be all the workers in a department or on a shift. The bill would also change how overtime pay works. In most states, overtime kicks in after 40 hours per week, but in California workers are also paid overtime after eight hours in a day. If the bill were to pass, employees could request alternate schedules, and if the schedule is approved, they would receive overtime after 10 hours in a day or 40 in a week.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The goal is to reimagine the workforce and improve the lives of millions of Californians.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Assemblymember Evan Low","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, support the bill, saying that the existing process is complicated, but that employees want the option of flexibility. A poll from Marketplace and Edison Research found that nearly two-thirds of workers polled said they’d prefer working 10 hours a day, four days a week to the standard eight-hour days, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is unlikely to pass, however; the idea has been proposed at least 14 times since 2005 and has never made it out of committee. It is opposed by the California Labor Federation, an umbrella organization for unions, which wrote in a letter to lawmakers that it “would erode the fundamental right to an eight-hour day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another proposal comes from Low. This year, instead of a 32-hour-per-week requirement for all large companies, he’s proposed a pilot program that would provide grants to companies that want to try a 32-hour week schedule without reducing pay. 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Tribal resorts and casinos in California operate under federal law on federally protected sovereign land known as rancherias – so they're not required to comply with orders issued by Gov. Newsom or county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Graton Resort and Casino, located on tribal land in Rohnert Park, came under criticism for announcing that it would host a 4,000-person New Year's Eve party. After a public-shaming, the Sonoma County casino \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Sonoma-casino-cancels-controversial-indoor-New-15827599.php\">canceled the event\u003c/a> last week and \"apologized for any inconvenience\" in a statement online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Public Health Officer Sundari Mase recently \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/graton-casino-new-years-eve-2020-party-sonoma-county-coronavirus/9042379/\">told ABC7 News\u003c/a> the department was working with the casino to mitigate risk, \"in terms of limiting indoor capacity to 20% of what's normal, in terms of enforcing facial coverings or masks and social distancing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the casino may not be adhering to that 20% capacity threshold, according to some employees who say their employer's practices make them fear for their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a poker table, we're sitting seven players, plus a dealer. That's eight people sitting at a table that's 6 feet long,” said an employee of the Graton Resort and Casino who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Graton Resort and Casino employee\"]'It's scary ... I don't even understand why we're open, honestly.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee, who has worked there for several years, told KQED the casino was “slammed” the last week of December. As the coronavirus surged through the state and regional businesses limited their capacity or shut down entirely, poker players continued traveling to the few places still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They all started traveling up here,” he said, adding that many players are traveling over two hours to spend the day playing poker. “We're sitting with these people for eight hours a day. They're playing 10, 12 hours a day in the same room with the same seats, the same people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While players are required to have masks on inside and cannot eat at the poker table, they're allowed to smoke and can sit in the food court and eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's scary ... I don't even understand why we're open, honestly,” he said. But he added that the holidays are one of the biggest times for business and the poker room had every available seat filled on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday over the Christmas holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria continue to work closely with the Sonoma County Public Health Officer,\" said Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in an emailed statement to KQED. The casino will remain open \"on a limited basis and [it] continues to exceed all CDC safety requirements,\" the statement said, adding that team members are tested for COVID-19 every two weeks and that they wear \"digital devices that ensure social distancing.\" The statement also said casino bars will continue to remain closed, and alcohol service ends at 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the elements of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/reopen-guidance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC's guidance\u003c/a> is to \"maintain safe behavioral practices,\" which includes social distancing of 6 feet. But as evidenced by images sent by the employee, social distancing is nearly impossible at a poker table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us are scared for our families and community,” the employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='worker-safety']With the most recent surge, as someone who is constantly thinking about numbers, the employee said it’s hard to avoid thinking about the potential impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the poker industry, we're math people — we're statistics people,” he said. “I can't help but think about California's positivity rate — 2% to 3% right now. And if you apply that to 105 people [the poker room capacity], statistically two to three people in that room are positive at any given point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 1, 2021 a new California law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/ab685.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 685\u003c/a>, went into effect. The law requires employers to notify employees who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and to report workplace outbreaks to the local health department. It also expands the power of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health by allowing Cal/OSHA to shut down worksites that expose employees to an “imminent hazard” related to COVID-19. But Cal/OSHA would not have the authority to shut down any work site on tribal land, as those lands fall outside state jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/AB6852020FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 Infection Prevention Requirements (AB 685)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/responding-to-covid19-workplace--en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Responding to COVID-19 in the Workplace for Employers\u003c/a>: California Department of Public Health guidance for employers on how to respond to cases of COVID-19 in the workplace\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/industry-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry Guidance to Reduce Risk\u003c/a>: Information and resources for reopening businesses and facilities safely in California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/COVID19FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As COVID-19 continues to ravage California, some businesses remain outside the purview of state law: resorts and casinos operating under federal law on tribal land.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1609866443,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":860},"headData":{"title":"'Slammed': Many California Casinos Are Still Open, and Some Workers Are Worried | KQED","description":"As COVID-19 continues to ravage California, some businesses remain outside the purview of state law: resorts and casinos operating under federal law on tribal land.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Slammed': Many California Casinos Are Still Open, and Some Workers Are Worried","datePublished":"2021-01-05T15:01:45.000Z","dateModified":"2021-01-05T17:07:23.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11853491 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11853491","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/01/05/slammed-many-california-casinos-are-still-open-and-some-workers-are-worried/","disqusTitle":"'Slammed': Many California Casinos Are Still Open, and Some Workers Are Worried","path":"/news/11853491/slammed-many-california-casinos-are-still-open-and-some-workers-are-worried","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As California continues to grapple with a worsening winter surge of COVID-19 cases, some businesses remain able to operate outside the purview of state shutdown orders aimed to protect public health during the pandemic. Tribal resorts and casinos in California operate under federal law on federally protected sovereign land known as rancherias – so they're not required to comply with orders issued by Gov. Newsom or county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Graton Resort and Casino, located on tribal land in Rohnert Park, came under criticism for announcing that it would host a 4,000-person New Year's Eve party. After a public-shaming, the Sonoma County casino \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Sonoma-casino-cancels-controversial-indoor-New-15827599.php\">canceled the event\u003c/a> last week and \"apologized for any inconvenience\" in a statement online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Public Health Officer Sundari Mase recently \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/graton-casino-new-years-eve-2020-party-sonoma-county-coronavirus/9042379/\">told ABC7 News\u003c/a> the department was working with the casino to mitigate risk, \"in terms of limiting indoor capacity to 20% of what's normal, in terms of enforcing facial coverings or masks and social distancing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the casino may not be adhering to that 20% capacity threshold, according to some employees who say their employer's practices make them fear for their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a poker table, we're sitting seven players, plus a dealer. That's eight people sitting at a table that's 6 feet long,” said an employee of the Graton Resort and Casino who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's scary ... I don't even understand why we're open, honestly.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Graton Resort and Casino employee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee, who has worked there for several years, told KQED the casino was “slammed” the last week of December. As the coronavirus surged through the state and regional businesses limited their capacity or shut down entirely, poker players continued traveling to the few places still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They all started traveling up here,” he said, adding that many players are traveling over two hours to spend the day playing poker. “We're sitting with these people for eight hours a day. They're playing 10, 12 hours a day in the same room with the same seats, the same people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While players are required to have masks on inside and cannot eat at the poker table, they're allowed to smoke and can sit in the food court and eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's scary ... I don't even understand why we're open, honestly,” he said. But he added that the holidays are one of the biggest times for business and the poker room had every available seat filled on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday over the Christmas holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria continue to work closely with the Sonoma County Public Health Officer,\" said Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in an emailed statement to KQED. The casino will remain open \"on a limited basis and [it] continues to exceed all CDC safety requirements,\" the statement said, adding that team members are tested for COVID-19 every two weeks and that they wear \"digital devices that ensure social distancing.\" The statement also said casino bars will continue to remain closed, and alcohol service ends at 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the elements of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/reopen-guidance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC's guidance\u003c/a> is to \"maintain safe behavioral practices,\" which includes social distancing of 6 feet. But as evidenced by images sent by the employee, social distancing is nearly impossible at a poker table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us are scared for our families and community,” the employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"worker-safety"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With the most recent surge, as someone who is constantly thinking about numbers, the employee said it’s hard to avoid thinking about the potential impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the poker industry, we're math people — we're statistics people,” he said. “I can't help but think about California's positivity rate — 2% to 3% right now. And if you apply that to 105 people [the poker room capacity], statistically two to three people in that room are positive at any given point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 1, 2021 a new California law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/ab685.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 685\u003c/a>, went into effect. The law requires employers to notify employees who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and to report workplace outbreaks to the local health department. It also expands the power of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health by allowing Cal/OSHA to shut down worksites that expose employees to an “imminent hazard” related to COVID-19. But Cal/OSHA would not have the authority to shut down any work site on tribal land, as those lands fall outside state jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/AB6852020FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 Infection Prevention Requirements (AB 685)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/responding-to-covid19-workplace--en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Responding to COVID-19 in the Workplace for Employers\u003c/a>: California Department of Public Health guidance for employers on how to respond to cases of COVID-19 in the workplace\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/industry-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry Guidance to Reduce Risk\u003c/a>: Information and resources for reopening businesses and facilities safely in California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/COVID19FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11853491/slammed-many-california-casinos-are-still-open-and-some-workers-are-worried","authors":["11626"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_18538","news_28969","news_27350","news_27504","news_27626","news_5025","news_19904","news_1262","news_28970","news_5026","news_4981","news_23007"],"featImg":"news_11853687","label":"news"},"news_11851735":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11851735","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11851735","score":null,"sort":[1608590026000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown","title":"Small Business Owners Struggle to Stay Open in an Empty Oakland Chinatown","publishDate":1608590026,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Before the pandemic, dozens of shoppers streamed through 9th and Webster, a busy intersection in Oakland. But on a recent afternoon, Carl Chan marveled at the sight of nearly empty streets. Only two pedestrians lingered on a corner, waiting for the green light to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, this is Chinatown?” said Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants in the neighborhood were some of the first hit by the pandemic, Chan said. As early as January, Bay Area residents with Asian roots were getting word of the deadly toll of COVID-19 in China and canceled large banquets booked months in advance. Instead of shopping and gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year, many opted to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even before the shelter in place, we had quite a few businesses already closed,” Chan said, standing near shuttered shops and ‘For Rent’ signs. “The impact has been huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, poses for a portrait in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While exact figures are hard to come by, Chan says he believes more than 30% of businesses in the neighborhood have closed their doors temporarily, or for good. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayeda.org/covid-business-impacts/\">East Bay Economic Development Alliance\u003c/a>, close to 900 businesses in Oakland discontinued operations in the first six months of shelter-in-place restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in Chinatown have also had to contend with a drop in customers due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide\">anti-Asian sentiment\u003c/a> mistakenly connecting COVID-19 with all Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hurtful,” said Chan, who has frequented the neighborhood since moving to the U.S. from Hong Kong as a teenager, and often waves to acquaintances passing by on the street. “I'm seeing so many people not only losing the business they worked so hard to build, but also, I'm seeing so many people are losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the pandemic, county public health orders have required Anna Bui to close Diva Nails, the nail salon she’s owned in Chinatown for 18 years. Still, she has been on the hook for $2,250 per month in commercial rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diva Nails in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After April, Bui tried negotiating with the landlord to reduce her payments, but he he faced a mortgage bill of his own for the property, and threatened to sue her. “I’m very stressed, and often up all night worrying about what I’m going to do with my salon and my family,” said Bui, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in November, Bui’s landlord agreed to offer a discount on her burgeoning debt with him, but she still owes $11,000 in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other landlords in the neighborhood said they are working with tenants who are missing rent payments. At Pacific Renaissance Plaza, which includes 90,000 square feet of commercial space in the heart of Chinatown, several tenants have paid partial or no rent since April and May, according to Rick da Silva, principal with Loh Realty and Wellington Property, which owns and manages the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this started, we actually told our tenants here and in other locations, ‘Pay what you can. We will work all of this out,' ” da Silva said. “We view our tenants as our partners. I mean, we would not want to push anybody out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a mask takes a to-go order while standing outside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Zhong, owner of Ying Kee Restaurant, takes a to-go order for local resident Caxton Fung in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all landlords are as understanding, and demand for help to renegotiate commercial lease terms has shot up, said Tobias Damm-Luhr with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://lawyerscommittee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\u003c/a>. The organization provides free legal counseling to people of color and \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/legal-services-for-oakland-small-businesses/\">webinars on lease negotiation\u003c/a> in Vietnamese, Cantonese and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one tip that we give people as part of these webinars is to remember that you have the upper hand as a small business tenant in these negotiations, because the market for commercial space right now is a renter's market,” Damm-Luhr said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant business owners in particular may struggle with language issues to communicate effectively with their landlords and understand the contents of their lease agreements in English, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland recently allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-of-the-sf-bay-area-to-provide-webinars-consultations-to-assist-oakland-small-businesses-with-lease-negotiations\">$150,000\u003c/a> to the civil rights nonprofit to help local businesses impacted by COVID-19 negotiate their leases, and try to avoid eviction or closure. But local business tenants must sign up for the assistance before Dec. 21, Damm-Luhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11851757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jewelry store is shuttered in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 15, 2020. The local chamber of commerce said the business may be closed permanently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oaklands-moratorium-on-residential-and-commercial-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moratorium\u003c/a> on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. But after, the city’s business tenants will be responsible for all the back rent they owe. Damm-Luhr worries that without substantial federal aid for small businesses, as well as more resources for legal assistance, there could be a huge wave of evictions in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Displacement of small business tenants has been an issue way before the pandemic even started,” he said, pointing to high rents. “But it was just exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low-income communities and communities of color in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland’s current moratorium on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Small Business Owners Struggle to Stay Open in an Empty Oakland Chinatown","datePublished":"2020-12-21T22:33:46.000Z","dateModified":"2021-02-12T23:13:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11851735 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11851735","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/12/21/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown/","disqusTitle":"Small Business Owners Struggle to Stay Open in an Empty Oakland Chinatown","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/b4c3b5cb-827f-4711-8084-ac95012aaf2d/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11851735/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before the pandemic, dozens of shoppers streamed through 9th and Webster, a busy intersection in Oakland. But on a recent afternoon, Carl Chan marveled at the sight of nearly empty streets. Only two pedestrians lingered on a corner, waiting for the green light to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, this is Chinatown?” said Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants in the neighborhood were some of the first hit by the pandemic, Chan said. As early as January, Bay Area residents with Asian roots were getting word of the deadly toll of COVID-19 in China and canceled large banquets booked months in advance. Instead of shopping and gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year, many opted to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even before the shelter in place, we had quite a few businesses already closed,” Chan said, standing near shuttered shops and ‘For Rent’ signs. “The impact has been huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, poses for a portrait in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While exact figures are hard to come by, Chan says he believes more than 30% of businesses in the neighborhood have closed their doors temporarily, or for good. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayeda.org/covid-business-impacts/\">East Bay Economic Development Alliance\u003c/a>, close to 900 businesses in Oakland discontinued operations in the first six months of shelter-in-place restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in Chinatown have also had to contend with a drop in customers due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide\">anti-Asian sentiment\u003c/a> mistakenly connecting COVID-19 with all Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hurtful,” said Chan, who has frequented the neighborhood since moving to the U.S. from Hong Kong as a teenager, and often waves to acquaintances passing by on the street. “I'm seeing so many people not only losing the business they worked so hard to build, but also, I'm seeing so many people are losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the pandemic, county public health orders have required Anna Bui to close Diva Nails, the nail salon she’s owned in Chinatown for 18 years. Still, she has been on the hook for $2,250 per month in commercial rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diva Nails in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After April, Bui tried negotiating with the landlord to reduce her payments, but he he faced a mortgage bill of his own for the property, and threatened to sue her. “I’m very stressed, and often up all night worrying about what I’m going to do with my salon and my family,” said Bui, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in November, Bui’s landlord agreed to offer a discount on her burgeoning debt with him, but she still owes $11,000 in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other landlords in the neighborhood said they are working with tenants who are missing rent payments. At Pacific Renaissance Plaza, which includes 90,000 square feet of commercial space in the heart of Chinatown, several tenants have paid partial or no rent since April and May, according to Rick da Silva, principal with Loh Realty and Wellington Property, which owns and manages the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this started, we actually told our tenants here and in other locations, ‘Pay what you can. We will work all of this out,' ” da Silva said. “We view our tenants as our partners. I mean, we would not want to push anybody out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a mask takes a to-go order while standing outside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Zhong, owner of Ying Kee Restaurant, takes a to-go order for local resident Caxton Fung in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all landlords are as understanding, and demand for help to renegotiate commercial lease terms has shot up, said Tobias Damm-Luhr with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://lawyerscommittee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\u003c/a>. The organization provides free legal counseling to people of color and \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/legal-services-for-oakland-small-businesses/\">webinars on lease negotiation\u003c/a> in Vietnamese, Cantonese and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one tip that we give people as part of these webinars is to remember that you have the upper hand as a small business tenant in these negotiations, because the market for commercial space right now is a renter's market,” Damm-Luhr said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant business owners in particular may struggle with language issues to communicate effectively with their landlords and understand the contents of their lease agreements in English, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland recently allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-of-the-sf-bay-area-to-provide-webinars-consultations-to-assist-oakland-small-businesses-with-lease-negotiations\">$150,000\u003c/a> to the civil rights nonprofit to help local businesses impacted by COVID-19 negotiate their leases, and try to avoid eviction or closure. But local business tenants must sign up for the assistance before Dec. 21, Damm-Luhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11851757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jewelry store is shuttered in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 15, 2020. The local chamber of commerce said the business may be closed permanently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oaklands-moratorium-on-residential-and-commercial-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moratorium\u003c/a> on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. But after, the city’s business tenants will be responsible for all the back rent they owe. Damm-Luhr worries that without substantial federal aid for small businesses, as well as more resources for legal assistance, there could be a huge wave of evictions in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Displacement of small business tenants has been an issue way before the pandemic even started,” he said, pointing to high rents. “But it was just exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low-income communities and communities of color in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11851735/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_393","news_23078","news_27504","news_21883","news_24256","news_20202","news_18","news_29160","news_20043"],"featImg":"news_11852252","label":"news"},"news_11823854":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11823854","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11823854","score":null,"sort":[1591924084000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-reopening-bars-gyms-movie-theaters-friday-but-not-so-fast-bay-area","title":"Newsom Orders Statewide Shutdown of All Bars, Indoor Restaurants, Entertainment Centers","publishDate":1591924084,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Last updated July 17, 3:45pm. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Looking for the latest reopening news? This post is no longer being updated, but click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a> for up-to-date \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">information\u003c/a> on what's open (or closed) in your county.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom always said that his approach to reopening California during the COVID-19 pandemic would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812296/newsoms-roadmap-to-guide-california-out-of-isolation\">more of a \"dimmer switch\"\u003c/a> than an on/off button —\u003cem> \u003c/em>and now we're seeing how drastically that switch can move down as well as up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to surge across much of California, on July 13 Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/\">ordered every county in the state\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753\">immediately shutter\u003c/a> all bars and shut down indoor service in restaurants, wineries, zoos, museums, cardrooms, movie theaters and family entertainment centers (like bowling alleys and batting cages). Additionally, he ordered 30 counties — comprising about 80% of the state's population — to close indoor operations at fitness centers, places of worship, non-essential business offices, personal care services, malls, hair salons and barbershops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003cem>has\u003c/em> targeted the indoor operations of businesses like bars and restaurants — but not on this statewide scale. Just days before the July holiday, he announced the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\"> three-week closure of many commercial indoor activities\u003c/a> in 19 counties, to address the increase in confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's COVID-19 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyDataTable.aspx\">watch list \u003c/a>now includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Closures Come One Month After \"Reopening\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom's last major statewide order, back on June 12, was about \u003cem>reopening\u003c/em> not closing. While much of the Bay Area chose to hold back, many counties across California were able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-113.aspx#\">reopen public businesses\u003c/a> including movie theaters, gyms and bars, after getting a green light from the state's Department of Public Health. Many of these were the same businesses that are now being ordered to close back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That June loosening of COVID-19-related restrictions represented California’s shift into \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap/#top\">Stage 3\u003c/a> of its reopening plans. The majority of California’s counties — including Napa, Solano and Sonoma — were quickly approved by the state to move into this next phase, pending clearance from local public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area's six other counties — San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara — initially opted for a slower, more cautious reopening timeline, they all then also chose to apply for this \"variance attestation\" to follow the state's timeline, with Alameda as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">the last to apply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases began to rise again locally, San Francisco's surge toward and then \u003cem>away\u003c/em> from reopening was perhaps one of the most dramatic in the Bay Area. In mid-June, S.F. applied for its variance alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supes-support-greater-flexibility-in-easing-covid-19-restrictions/\">newly-accelerated timeline\u003c/a> that would have seen \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">businesses like outdoor bars reopening\u003c/a> on June 29, several weeks before originally projected. On June 26 those plans were then \"temporarily\" placed on hold by Mayor London Breed, who attributed her decision to the number of COVID-19 cases in the city \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1276596917770715136?s=20\">\"rapidly rising.\" \u003c/a>A revised date of July 13 was set for these S.F. reopenings, but on July 7 that projection was \u003cem>also\u003c/em> put on pause, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">Breed saying\u003c/a> \"our public health experts feel it is not safe to move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down to see what's still cleared for reopening in California from that June order, what's been closed again by the most recent announcement, and whether these new rules will apply to \u003cem>your\u003c/em> county ... or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gyms\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824024 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has given the green light to gyms reopening in the state. But don't expect to see the Bay Area's fitness facilities opening up en masse any time soon. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's gyms were \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-fitness.pdf\">permitted to open their doors again\u003c/a> starting June 12 in approved counties, but counties on the state's watch list have now been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753/photo/2\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance (understandably) emphasizes the cleaning and disinfecting of exercise equipment and locker rooms and the provision of sanitation products like hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes for gym-goers. It also recommends facilities provide special gym hours for seniors and the medically vulnerable, and limit exercise class sizes. Swimming pools can reopen, but saunas and steam rooms must stay closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa are on the state's watch list, which means their gyms must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that look like? \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32289\">Solano\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/order-of-the-health-officer-c19-15-stay-well-sonoma-county/\">Sonoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> counties \u003cem>had\u003c/em> already reopened gyms, and now only San Mateo can keep theirs open. Marin had planned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">reopen gyms on June 29\u003c/a>, but postponed after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Santa Clara previously wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\">open its gyms\u003c/a> soon after its application to join the state's reopening timeline is approved (if it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> approved.) Alameda had \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">listed gym reopening\u003c/a> in its plan, but provided no set timeframe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\">postponed its July 1 reopening of gyms\u003c/a> after being placed on the state Department of Public Health watch list for rising COVID-19 cases, and on July 2 announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-officer-07-13-20.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new health order\u003c/a> establishing mandatory criteria that businesses must meet to reopen. The new order does not include \"phases\" or specific dates when businesses might reopen — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strategy\u003c/a> that county officials say is about long-term risk reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about counties \u003cem>not\u003c/em> on the watch list? San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">says its gyms will reopen\u003c/a> in its \"August and beyond\" period for Phase 3, but has also declared\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829432/san-francisco-added-to-states-covid-19-watch-list-reopening-plans-paused-indefinitely\"> all reopening plans on pause\u003c/a> now the county is on the state watch list. Other Bay Area counties have opted to not yet specifically address gyms in their reopening schedules, or have not provided a projected date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyms have been among the businesses hit especially hard by the coronavirus closures. The San Ramon-headquartered gym chain 24 Hour Fitness\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/24-Hour-Fitness-closes-10-Bay-Area-clubs-15339441.php\"> announced on June 15\u003c/a> that it was filing for bankruptcy and permanently closing over 100 of its locations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.24hourfitness.com/health_clubs/club-closures/\">including these 13 in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are Bay Area bars reopening? It's... complicated. \u003ccite>(Chris F/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom's statewide order now mandates the closure of all bars in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's bars had previously got the state's greenlight to reopen starting June 12, although only ones in counties that met the state's requirements. That guidance also\u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.ca.gov/modification-of-covid-19-relief-regarding-on-premises-meal-requirements/\"> removed the previous stipulation\u003c/a> that a bar had to serve food to be able to serve alcohol, although this rule still applied to bars offering to-go drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of their potential to enable the spread of COVID-19, Newsom had previously targeted bars for widepread closure back on June 28, when he ordered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826532/newsom-orders-bars-closed-in-7-counties-hit-hardest-by-covid-19\">mandatory and immediate closure of all bars for 14 days or more\u003c/a> in the other counties on the state's \"County Monitoring List,\" citing the need for Californians to \"remain vigilant against this virus\" amid rising case numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for bars that were allowed to remain open were much like those for \u003ca href=\"#restaurants\">restaurants\u003c/a>, although bars with games like pool tables or shuffleboard are directed to follow the state's \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">guidelines for Family Entertainment Centers\u003c/a>, which encourage the disinfecting of equipment and the use of partitions between activity spaces to maintain social distancing. Like restaurants, bars were also not yet permitted to host any concerts, performances or private parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like at a restaurant, you could have expected to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms upon arrival, asked to use hand sanitizer and asked to wear a face covering when you were not eating or drinking. An establishment could also cancel your reservation if you arrived with symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All bars in the Bay Area must now shut, or pause any plans for reopening. Previously, bars were able to reopen whenever the county you live in allowed it (provided your county met the state's reopening requirements).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide order does allows bars, pubs, brewpubs, and breweries, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">continue \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> operations\u003c/a> if they are \"offering sit-down, outdoor, dine-in meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's July 1 three-week closure order for bars, wineries and tasting rooms had already affected Solano, where bars and wineries \u003cem>had\u003c/em> opened, and Santa Clara and Contra Costa, which paused any existing plans to reopen these establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineries and tasting rooms are included in the statewide closure order, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">are permitted\u003c/a> to keep their outdoor operations open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137342/wine-country-reopens-for-tastings\">Wineries had opened their doors again several weeks ago\u003c/a> in Sonoma and Napa. Sonoma's \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/17932-2/\">guidance\u003c/a> had allowed wineries and breweries to reopen but not bars, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> \u003cem>did\u003c/em> also permit their bars to reopen. San Mateo had announced its bars were allowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">reopen on June 17.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the new closure order, the rest of the Bay Area was being cautious when it came to bars. San Francisco originally set a tentative date of \"August and beyond\" for its booze-only bars, then moved that up to June 29 (and then July 13) for its outdoor bars \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the state approved \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses \u003c/a>— but declared those plans \"on hold\" due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. No other Bay Area counties have given dates for bars to reopen ... yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"restaurants\">\u003c/a>Restaurants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor dining has reopened around the Bay Area, but dine-in services will be a while longer. \u003ccite>(Creative Vix/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom has ordered the closure of all indoor restaurant operations in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11817749/gov-newsom-announces-guidance-for-reopening-dine-in-restaurants\">permitted the reopening of restaurants\u003c/a> in state-approved counties back in May, but then began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">mandating closures\u003c/a> in counties on the state's watch list. The statewide reopening advisory included \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-restaurants-bars.pdf\">additional guidance\u003c/a> for restaurants, including cleaning protocols, temperature checks for workers, the use of face coverings when not actively drinking or eating and keeping restaurant music low so servers could keep their distance from diners and still hear their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=bayareabites_137434 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/06/ZAK02755-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All indoor restaurant operations in the Bay Area must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137434/this-is-what-restaurant-reopening-looks-like-bizarre-and-confusing\">Dine-in restaurant service\u003c/a> had previously returned to several Bay Area counties including Sonoma, Napa and San Mateo — and \u003cem>had\u003c/em> returned to Solano and Marin, which had already been forced to close those establishments owing to their spots on the state's watch list. Likewise, Santa Clara and Contra Costa had to halt their plans for reopening indoor restaurants. All the while, more Bay Area counties were actively planning for the return of indoor dining, although on July 7 San Francisco announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">hitting pause\u003c/a> on its planned reopening date of\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> July 13\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor dining service has already been reintroduced in all Bay Area counties, where it can still continue even as indoor operations shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda was the last county to reopen outdoor restaurant operations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">on June 19 ,\u003c/a> and was initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-outdoor-dining-reopening-variance-15401548.php\">ordered to \u003cem>close\u003c/em> it again\u003c/a> by the state — because the county hadn't yet applied for a variance attestation. As of July 15, with Alameda's newly-approved variance, they've been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">ok-ed to open outdoor dining\u003c/a> once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check where your county stands \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Movie Theaters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"heatr\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie theaters have been cleared to reopen in California -- with caveats. \u003ccite>(Donald Tong/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All movie theaters in California have been ordered to close. Movie theaters in California \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">were previously permitted to reopen\u003c/a> if they limited theater capacity to 25% or no more than 100 attendees, but more and more counties on the state's watch list were then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance recommended movie theaters implement reservation systems, designate arrival times and assign certain seats that people can use so that moviegoers could maintain 6 feet of distance from other groups. Patrons were asked, at a minimum, wear face coverings when entering and exiting the theater or buying concessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> counties had permitted movie theaters to reopen at 25%, capacity per state guidance — and they must now close their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not seeing any counties with active plans to reopen their indoor movie theaters … yet. That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879772/hooray-you-can-go-to-the-movies-again-at-a-drive-in-theater\">a few drive-in movie theaters have reopened\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California just released new guidelines for schools reopening. \u003ccite>(Caleb Oquendo/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the new guidance for California's public schools technically started on June 12, most will reopen with the new school year. In that guidance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823500/california-schools-reopening-education-chief-details-plan\">California’s education chief\u003c/a> provided a glimpse of what 6.2 million California students can expect when they return to school, including temperature checks upon entering schools and buses, extensive hand washing throughout the day, physical distancing requirements and face coverings for students and staff at all times except when eating and drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region's public schools remain closed, and still plan to reopen in the fall, along with most other schools in California, although districts are divided on whether instruction will be in-person or remote. Schools in Napa County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Napa\">were actually permitted to reopen\u003c/a> June 1 subject to rules and modifications — but the county opted to continue to suspend teaching through the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Museums\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately. \u003ccite>(Una Laurencic/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All museums in California have been ordered to close with Newsom's latest announcement. California had \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-zoos-museums.pdf\">OK'd the reopening of \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> museums\u003c/a> back in May, and then permitted the state's indoor museums to reopen too — including galleries, botanical gardens, zoos and aquariums. Museums were already being closed in counties on the state watch list with that July 1 closure order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state guidance for these establishments didn't apply to amusement, theme or water parks, which must remain closed. The guidance issued emphasized facilitating social distancing and one-way movement through exhibits, and cleaning protocols for shared areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32398\">Solano \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> were the only Bay Area counties to have reopened their indoor museums, which must now stay closed after their \u003cem>initial\u003c/em> closure due to being on the state's watch list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All other Bay Area counties must now keep their plans for reopening indoor museums on pause. Contra Costa County had already postponed the return of indoor museums when they opted to\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\"> pause their July 1 reopening plans\u003c/a>, even before they were included in Newsom's closure order for being on the watch list. San Francisco originally set indoor museum reopenings for \"August and beyond,\" and then moved that up to June 29, according to its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses, but \u003cem>then\u003c/em> the city\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> declared the reopening \"on hold.\"\u003c/a> Alameda County was planning for indoor museums to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">still \u003cem>several\u003c/em> phases of reopening away\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Final Reminder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember: certain businesses and activities remain firmly \u003cem>off\u003c/em> California’s list for imminent reopening, including live theater, saunas and steam rooms, nightclubs, concert venues, festivals and theme parks. This means it’ll definitely be more time before you see any of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> open back up in the Bay Area, even if Newsom and the state Department of Public Health decide to give the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what state officials announce, whether \u003cem>you\u003c/em> can finally return to your gym, hair salon or beloved bar in the future is almost entirely dependent on what your particular county decides. How far a county can “reopen” depends on whether it meets certain metrics, including number of cases, positive test rates and testing and tracing capabilities. We're tracking what's reopening around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">here\u003c/a>, but if in doubt, check your county's reopening plans directly below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/2019-ncov.aspx\">Alameda \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://marinrecovers.com/\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/shelter-place-faqs\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/public-health-orders.aspx\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/?v=1\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://laist.com/projects/2020/coronavirus-tracker/app/california/index.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2300\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Just weeks after allowing counties across California to reopen their bars, indoor restaurants and other indoor businesses, Newsom in early July ordered a large portion of the state to reverse course, amid spiking coronavirus cases. Now that shutdown order has been expanded statewide.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1595025642,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":57,"wordCount":2703},"headData":{"title":"California Reopening Gyms, Bars and Movie Theaters – But Not So Fast, Bay Area | KQED","description":"Residents of Solano, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and more: check your county's reopening schedule here.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom Orders Statewide Shutdown of All Bars, Indoor Restaurants, Entertainment Centers","datePublished":"2020-06-12T01:08:04.000Z","dateModified":"2020-07-17T22:40:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11823854 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11823854","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/11/california-reopening-bars-gyms-movie-theaters-friday-but-not-so-fast-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"Newsom Orders Statewide Shutdown of All Bars, Indoor Restaurants, Entertainment Centers","path":"/news/11823854/california-reopening-bars-gyms-movie-theaters-friday-but-not-so-fast-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Last updated July 17, 3:45pm. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Looking for the latest reopening news? This post is no longer being updated, but click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a> for up-to-date \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">information\u003c/a> on what's open (or closed) in your county.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom always said that his approach to reopening California during the COVID-19 pandemic would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812296/newsoms-roadmap-to-guide-california-out-of-isolation\">more of a \"dimmer switch\"\u003c/a> than an on/off button —\u003cem> \u003c/em>and now we're seeing how drastically that switch can move down as well as up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to surge across much of California, on July 13 Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/\">ordered every county in the state\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753\">immediately shutter\u003c/a> all bars and shut down indoor service in restaurants, wineries, zoos, museums, cardrooms, movie theaters and family entertainment centers (like bowling alleys and batting cages). Additionally, he ordered 30 counties — comprising about 80% of the state's population — to close indoor operations at fitness centers, places of worship, non-essential business offices, personal care services, malls, hair salons and barbershops.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1283068880747978753"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003cem>has\u003c/em> targeted the indoor operations of businesses like bars and restaurants — but not on this statewide scale. Just days before the July holiday, he announced the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\"> three-week closure of many commercial indoor activities\u003c/a> in 19 counties, to address the increase in confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's COVID-19 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyDataTable.aspx\">watch list \u003c/a>now includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Closures Come One Month After \"Reopening\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom's last major statewide order, back on June 12, was about \u003cem>reopening\u003c/em> not closing. While much of the Bay Area chose to hold back, many counties across California were able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-113.aspx#\">reopen public businesses\u003c/a> including movie theaters, gyms and bars, after getting a green light from the state's Department of Public Health. Many of these were the same businesses that are now being ordered to close back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That June loosening of COVID-19-related restrictions represented California’s shift into \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap/#top\">Stage 3\u003c/a> of its reopening plans. The majority of California’s counties — including Napa, Solano and Sonoma — were quickly approved by the state to move into this next phase, pending clearance from local public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area's six other counties — San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara — initially opted for a slower, more cautious reopening timeline, they all then also chose to apply for this \"variance attestation\" to follow the state's timeline, with Alameda as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">the last to apply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases began to rise again locally, San Francisco's surge toward and then \u003cem>away\u003c/em> from reopening was perhaps one of the most dramatic in the Bay Area. In mid-June, S.F. applied for its variance alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supes-support-greater-flexibility-in-easing-covid-19-restrictions/\">newly-accelerated timeline\u003c/a> that would have seen \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">businesses like outdoor bars reopening\u003c/a> on June 29, several weeks before originally projected. On June 26 those plans were then \"temporarily\" placed on hold by Mayor London Breed, who attributed her decision to the number of COVID-19 cases in the city \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1276596917770715136?s=20\">\"rapidly rising.\" \u003c/a>A revised date of July 13 was set for these S.F. reopenings, but on July 7 that projection was \u003cem>also\u003c/em> put on pause, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">Breed saying\u003c/a> \"our public health experts feel it is not safe to move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down to see what's still cleared for reopening in California from that June order, what's been closed again by the most recent announcement, and whether these new rules will apply to \u003cem>your\u003c/em> county ... or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gyms\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824024 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has given the green light to gyms reopening in the state. But don't expect to see the Bay Area's fitness facilities opening up en masse any time soon. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's gyms were \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-fitness.pdf\">permitted to open their doors again\u003c/a> starting June 12 in approved counties, but counties on the state's watch list have now been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753/photo/2\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance (understandably) emphasizes the cleaning and disinfecting of exercise equipment and locker rooms and the provision of sanitation products like hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes for gym-goers. It also recommends facilities provide special gym hours for seniors and the medically vulnerable, and limit exercise class sizes. Swimming pools can reopen, but saunas and steam rooms must stay closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa are on the state's watch list, which means their gyms must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that look like? \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32289\">Solano\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/order-of-the-health-officer-c19-15-stay-well-sonoma-county/\">Sonoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> counties \u003cem>had\u003c/em> already reopened gyms, and now only San Mateo can keep theirs open. Marin had planned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">reopen gyms on June 29\u003c/a>, but postponed after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Santa Clara previously wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\">open its gyms\u003c/a> soon after its application to join the state's reopening timeline is approved (if it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> approved.) Alameda had \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">listed gym reopening\u003c/a> in its plan, but provided no set timeframe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\">postponed its July 1 reopening of gyms\u003c/a> after being placed on the state Department of Public Health watch list for rising COVID-19 cases, and on July 2 announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-officer-07-13-20.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new health order\u003c/a> establishing mandatory criteria that businesses must meet to reopen. The new order does not include \"phases\" or specific dates when businesses might reopen — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strategy\u003c/a> that county officials say is about long-term risk reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about counties \u003cem>not\u003c/em> on the watch list? San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">says its gyms will reopen\u003c/a> in its \"August and beyond\" period for Phase 3, but has also declared\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829432/san-francisco-added-to-states-covid-19-watch-list-reopening-plans-paused-indefinitely\"> all reopening plans on pause\u003c/a> now the county is on the state watch list. Other Bay Area counties have opted to not yet specifically address gyms in their reopening schedules, or have not provided a projected date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyms have been among the businesses hit especially hard by the coronavirus closures. The San Ramon-headquartered gym chain 24 Hour Fitness\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/24-Hour-Fitness-closes-10-Bay-Area-clubs-15339441.php\"> announced on June 15\u003c/a> that it was filing for bankruptcy and permanently closing over 100 of its locations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.24hourfitness.com/health_clubs/club-closures/\">including these 13 in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are Bay Area bars reopening? It's... complicated. \u003ccite>(Chris F/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom's statewide order now mandates the closure of all bars in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's bars had previously got the state's greenlight to reopen starting June 12, although only ones in counties that met the state's requirements. That guidance also\u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.ca.gov/modification-of-covid-19-relief-regarding-on-premises-meal-requirements/\"> removed the previous stipulation\u003c/a> that a bar had to serve food to be able to serve alcohol, although this rule still applied to bars offering to-go drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of their potential to enable the spread of COVID-19, Newsom had previously targeted bars for widepread closure back on June 28, when he ordered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826532/newsom-orders-bars-closed-in-7-counties-hit-hardest-by-covid-19\">mandatory and immediate closure of all bars for 14 days or more\u003c/a> in the other counties on the state's \"County Monitoring List,\" citing the need for Californians to \"remain vigilant against this virus\" amid rising case numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for bars that were allowed to remain open were much like those for \u003ca href=\"#restaurants\">restaurants\u003c/a>, although bars with games like pool tables or shuffleboard are directed to follow the state's \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">guidelines for Family Entertainment Centers\u003c/a>, which encourage the disinfecting of equipment and the use of partitions between activity spaces to maintain social distancing. Like restaurants, bars were also not yet permitted to host any concerts, performances or private parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like at a restaurant, you could have expected to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms upon arrival, asked to use hand sanitizer and asked to wear a face covering when you were not eating or drinking. An establishment could also cancel your reservation if you arrived with symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All bars in the Bay Area must now shut, or pause any plans for reopening. Previously, bars were able to reopen whenever the county you live in allowed it (provided your county met the state's reopening requirements).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide order does allows bars, pubs, brewpubs, and breweries, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">continue \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> operations\u003c/a> if they are \"offering sit-down, outdoor, dine-in meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's July 1 three-week closure order for bars, wineries and tasting rooms had already affected Solano, where bars and wineries \u003cem>had\u003c/em> opened, and Santa Clara and Contra Costa, which paused any existing plans to reopen these establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineries and tasting rooms are included in the statewide closure order, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">are permitted\u003c/a> to keep their outdoor operations open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137342/wine-country-reopens-for-tastings\">Wineries had opened their doors again several weeks ago\u003c/a> in Sonoma and Napa. Sonoma's \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/17932-2/\">guidance\u003c/a> had allowed wineries and breweries to reopen but not bars, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> \u003cem>did\u003c/em> also permit their bars to reopen. San Mateo had announced its bars were allowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">reopen on June 17.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the new closure order, the rest of the Bay Area was being cautious when it came to bars. San Francisco originally set a tentative date of \"August and beyond\" for its booze-only bars, then moved that up to June 29 (and then July 13) for its outdoor bars \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the state approved \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses \u003c/a>— but declared those plans \"on hold\" due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. No other Bay Area counties have given dates for bars to reopen ... yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"restaurants\">\u003c/a>Restaurants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor dining has reopened around the Bay Area, but dine-in services will be a while longer. \u003ccite>(Creative Vix/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom has ordered the closure of all indoor restaurant operations in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11817749/gov-newsom-announces-guidance-for-reopening-dine-in-restaurants\">permitted the reopening of restaurants\u003c/a> in state-approved counties back in May, but then began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">mandating closures\u003c/a> in counties on the state's watch list. The statewide reopening advisory included \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-restaurants-bars.pdf\">additional guidance\u003c/a> for restaurants, including cleaning protocols, temperature checks for workers, the use of face coverings when not actively drinking or eating and keeping restaurant music low so servers could keep their distance from diners and still hear their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"bayareabites_137434","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/06/ZAK02755-1038x576.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All indoor restaurant operations in the Bay Area must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137434/this-is-what-restaurant-reopening-looks-like-bizarre-and-confusing\">Dine-in restaurant service\u003c/a> had previously returned to several Bay Area counties including Sonoma, Napa and San Mateo — and \u003cem>had\u003c/em> returned to Solano and Marin, which had already been forced to close those establishments owing to their spots on the state's watch list. Likewise, Santa Clara and Contra Costa had to halt their plans for reopening indoor restaurants. All the while, more Bay Area counties were actively planning for the return of indoor dining, although on July 7 San Francisco announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">hitting pause\u003c/a> on its planned reopening date of\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> July 13\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor dining service has already been reintroduced in all Bay Area counties, where it can still continue even as indoor operations shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda was the last county to reopen outdoor restaurant operations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">on June 19 ,\u003c/a> and was initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-outdoor-dining-reopening-variance-15401548.php\">ordered to \u003cem>close\u003c/em> it again\u003c/a> by the state — because the county hadn't yet applied for a variance attestation. As of July 15, with Alameda's newly-approved variance, they've been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">ok-ed to open outdoor dining\u003c/a> once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check where your county stands \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Movie Theaters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"heatr\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie theaters have been cleared to reopen in California -- with caveats. \u003ccite>(Donald Tong/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All movie theaters in California have been ordered to close. Movie theaters in California \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">were previously permitted to reopen\u003c/a> if they limited theater capacity to 25% or no more than 100 attendees, but more and more counties on the state's watch list were then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance recommended movie theaters implement reservation systems, designate arrival times and assign certain seats that people can use so that moviegoers could maintain 6 feet of distance from other groups. Patrons were asked, at a minimum, wear face coverings when entering and exiting the theater or buying concessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> counties had permitted movie theaters to reopen at 25%, capacity per state guidance — and they must now close their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not seeing any counties with active plans to reopen their indoor movie theaters … yet. That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879772/hooray-you-can-go-to-the-movies-again-at-a-drive-in-theater\">a few drive-in movie theaters have reopened\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California just released new guidelines for schools reopening. \u003ccite>(Caleb Oquendo/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the new guidance for California's public schools technically started on June 12, most will reopen with the new school year. In that guidance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823500/california-schools-reopening-education-chief-details-plan\">California’s education chief\u003c/a> provided a glimpse of what 6.2 million California students can expect when they return to school, including temperature checks upon entering schools and buses, extensive hand washing throughout the day, physical distancing requirements and face coverings for students and staff at all times except when eating and drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region's public schools remain closed, and still plan to reopen in the fall, along with most other schools in California, although districts are divided on whether instruction will be in-person or remote. Schools in Napa County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Napa\">were actually permitted to reopen\u003c/a> June 1 subject to rules and modifications — but the county opted to continue to suspend teaching through the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Museums\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately. \u003ccite>(Una Laurencic/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All museums in California have been ordered to close with Newsom's latest announcement. California had \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-zoos-museums.pdf\">OK'd the reopening of \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> museums\u003c/a> back in May, and then permitted the state's indoor museums to reopen too — including galleries, botanical gardens, zoos and aquariums. Museums were already being closed in counties on the state watch list with that July 1 closure order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state guidance for these establishments didn't apply to amusement, theme or water parks, which must remain closed. The guidance issued emphasized facilitating social distancing and one-way movement through exhibits, and cleaning protocols for shared areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32398\">Solano \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> were the only Bay Area counties to have reopened their indoor museums, which must now stay closed after their \u003cem>initial\u003c/em> closure due to being on the state's watch list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All other Bay Area counties must now keep their plans for reopening indoor museums on pause. Contra Costa County had already postponed the return of indoor museums when they opted to\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\"> pause their July 1 reopening plans\u003c/a>, even before they were included in Newsom's closure order for being on the watch list. San Francisco originally set indoor museum reopenings for \"August and beyond,\" and then moved that up to June 29, according to its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses, but \u003cem>then\u003c/em> the city\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> declared the reopening \"on hold.\"\u003c/a> Alameda County was planning for indoor museums to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">still \u003cem>several\u003c/em> phases of reopening away\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Final Reminder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember: certain businesses and activities remain firmly \u003cem>off\u003c/em> California’s list for imminent reopening, including live theater, saunas and steam rooms, nightclubs, concert venues, festivals and theme parks. This means it’ll definitely be more time before you see any of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> open back up in the Bay Area, even if Newsom and the state Department of Public Health decide to give the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what state officials announce, whether \u003cem>you\u003c/em> can finally return to your gym, hair salon or beloved bar in the future is almost entirely dependent on what your particular county decides. How far a county can “reopen” depends on whether it meets certain metrics, including number of cases, positive test rates and testing and tracing capabilities. We're tracking what's reopening around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">here\u003c/a>, but if in doubt, check your county's reopening plans directly below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/2019-ncov.aspx\">Alameda \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://marinrecovers.com/\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/shelter-place-faqs\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/public-health-orders.aspx\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/?v=1\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://laist.com/projects/2020/coronavirus-tracker/app/california/index.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2300\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11823854/california-reopening-bars-gyms-movie-theaters-friday-but-not-so-fast-bay-area","authors":["3243"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_18538","news_27350","news_27504","news_27626","news_27645","news_27881","news_27808"],"featImg":"news_11824119","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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