Today, Kelsey, Danny, and I blogged Central Avenue between San Pedro and San Mateo. It was a quick walk, most of it on the road because A.R.T. construction is destroying the sidewalks. We had cones to protect us from traffic.
Except for the Trade Winds Plaza (where Bob's Burgers is), there weren't that many out-of-businesses on this short stretch of Central. On another post about the Trade Winds Plaza, I reported 2 in-businesses and 14 out-of's but today there was one suite that had activity so we decided to call it an in-business.
Then there is the Bank of the West tower, which looks out of business but when I googled it on arriving home, I discovered that some State offices are housed there. It looks like a creepy place to work, if you ask me. Is anyone who works there reading this? Is it creepy?
We weren't sure about Fareast Fuzion either but it looks like it is an in-business. If I remember a reader's comment on this building correctly, it used to be the Casa Luna Pizzeria.
There were a couple of long-empty lots that we just didn't count at all as either in or out as they had no For Sale/Rent signs.
A reader commented on another post that the old hotels on Central will all be gone within three years but for now, the ones we saw are in operation so we counted them as such.
Between San Mateo and San Pedro, we counted 23 (62%) in-businesses and 14 (38%) out-of-businesses. For the entire distance we've covered so far, we have counted 458 total businesses, 326 (71%) of which are in business and 132 (29%) of which are out of business.
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