The Closing of Campo Fina
In Ari and Dawnelise Rosen's heartfelt letter announcing the closing of
our beloved Campo Fina, they laid out how their business was impacted by
a number of challenges facing our community. All of them are
meaningful, but what stands out to me is that their rent DOUBLED in the
last year.
Doubled? We are all experiencing
inflation, but this kind of increase is clearly indicative of something
occurring outside normal economic pressures.
What
I think we as a community deserve is an open forum with the property
owners so we can learn their reasoning, and so they could know firsthand
the high price that our community will pay for this loss, especially if
this space stays open for an extended period or is replaced with a
business that few residents can afford.
More
likely, the owners will protect themselves in their San Francisco
office, deaf to the community they are affecting so deeply. It's an
outrageous way for them to do business, in my opinion, but they are not
the only ones using the same game plan in Healdsburg.
Here is some information about the owner of 330 Healdsburg Ave. where all those Campo memories were made.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/201110810170
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