Subject: Amy Brown

• Amidst a budget crisis, the city is losing its shirt in the antiques business

  June 10, 2009

• Market Watch: Real Estate Division Feeling Heat over Alemany

  With great produce comes great responsibilityWe reported this week that the city's Real Estate Division, roughly 10 months after engineering a hostile takeover of the United Nations Plaza antiques market, had fallen a cool half-million short of its revenue projections from the new business. This was a vindication for Mary Millman, who built up the market over the past decade and had argued that the city shouldn't be in the antiques business. More and more, it's looking like there's reason to que

  June 11, 2009

• Alemany Food Vendors Could Extend Their City Contracts Up to Three Years

  ladyJake/FlickrEl Huarache Loco must file for a contract from the city's Real Estate Division.Food vendors at the Alemany farmers' market who avoided the axe last week have an opportunity to operate under city contract for as long as three years. Yesterday, Chron's Chuck Nevius reported that the city's Real Estate Division was allowing the vendors to stay, but only for a year, followed by an uncertain future. But John Updike, the Division's assistant director, told SFoodie that food sellers wil

  June 17, 2009