San Francisco is making efforts to clean up its downtown area as it prepares for the arrival of influential APEC visitors. The city is trying to project an image of being a place to do business and invest, after years of companies leaving. Major streets have been cleaned, potholes repaired, and police officers are on patrol. The city's reputation for homelessness and drug use is being addressed for the summit.
Like a housework-shy couple who suddenly discover the neighbors are dropping round, San Francisco is in tidying panic mode as it readies for thousands of influential APEC visitors. There are palpable efforts to spruce up the decaying downtown that in recent years has earned itself a reputation for open-air drug use , homelessness, litter and crime.
Major streets have been swept clean, potholes newly repaired and an army of flat-capped police officers are on patrol in the shopping and business district where diplomats, journalists and businesspeople will mingle this week for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, a summit of leaders from around the Pacific. There's an obvious sense of best-foot-forward as the city tries to project an image that it's a place to do business and invest, after years in which companies have fled, giving rise to the notion that it is in a 'doom loop.' 'This place has a reputation for homeless encampments and drug dealers,' a jogger who identified himself as Oliver told AFP on Saturday. 'They basically just cleared that out' for APE
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