the ceo of this company greg koch swindled and hurt the music scene in san francisco.

he used to manage a place called downtown rehearsal which was a home to about 500 bands. the building was bought and he notified the tenants that he had negotiated a new lease with the owners and would be doubling the rent to make much needed improvements.

what he neglected to state was that the new owner was his father. he never actually made any improvemnets in the next year and then his father sold the building for over the ten times the price he purchased it for in the real estate boom of the dot bomb.

this created a situation where over 2000 musicians were evicted from their practice spaces. many musicians were forced to leave the city for low rents. this diminished the music scene in san francisco greatly. the rehearsal space real estate has never really recovered and there are slowly forming movements of music to revitalize our city.

so not only did he double the rents but he threw out the musicians for the sake of greed.

i believe that he is still banned from many bars and clubs in san frnacisco.

you may read these articles if you have any concerns about the validity of these statements.

thank you for not buying this beer.

www.sfgate.com

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www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

www.sfbg.com/AandE/34/46/vacant.html

www.sfweekly.com/issues/20...yview.html

www.digitalcity.com/sanfranc.../main.adp