S.F. Flower Mart considers bid for part of property

From today's Examiner: a real estate developer has put in a bid to purchase a portion of the Flower Market at Sixth Street and Brannan.

"The San Francisco Flower Mart is made up of two separate entities: the San Francisco Flower Market, an Italian flower growers' collective founded in 1956, and the California Flower Market Inc., created in the mid-1950s by Japanese-American flower growers.

San Francisco Flower Market is selling off its portion of the property, roughly one-third of the 280,000-square-foot building that stretches nearly an entire block from Sixth Street to Fifth Street along Brannan Street."

And the activists get their $0.02 in, too. "South of Market activist Jim Meko said the area is zoned for service and light industry and that the neighborhood should remain a place with jobs, not just housing"

Do we want more housing or not?