Representative Image. Credit: X (Anto Patrex)
20+ street dog encounters, shattered car glass on every block, and another friend struck in the head by a stranger while standing in line for dinner. Property consultancy Kidder Matthews put the mid-Market vacancy rate at 32% in the third quarter. Patrex said he would prefer to work downtown because it makes it easier to meet investors and partners, according to the supplied reporting.
A San Francisco startup founder says safety concerns forced him to relocate his office. Anto Patrex, founder of AI robotics startup Cosmic Brain, said he moved the company from a tech incubator on Market Street to the city’s Dogpatch neighbourhood following dog attacks and other criminal incidents. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Patrex described a dog attack that left one of his friends needing urgent care for severe bite wounds. He also shared footage showing people apparently under the influence of drugs and cited “shattered car glass on every block” among the conditions that prompted the move. In his X post, Anto Patrex wrote: “Officially moving our office out of downtown SF after 12 months on Market Street. a space that incubated over 100 startups just a few years ago is down to fewer than 10 teams today. the physical reality of working here took a heavy toll. San Francisco is still home, and we are relocating to a neighborhood where people can walk to lunch without fearing for their physical safety.” Patrex said he and a friend were bitten in separate incidents on the same street within days of each other. “Two weeks ago I was walking down Sixth Street, and there was a bulldog I didn’t see that came out of a wheelchair — it rushed at me and bit my leg,” Patrex told the New York Post. “The week after, my friend was walking through the same street and was bit … it was a very bad wound, he was rushed to the hospital,” he added. “There have been a lot of dog cases in the area.” Patrex attached videos from local X creator JJ Smith showing street conditions around his office. He also described an incident in which engineer friends waiting for ice cream fled after a man pulled down a road sign and tried to strike bystanders. “They ran — everyone carries pepper spray,” Patrex said. KRON4 reported that city data recorded 74 dog attacks in the Tenderloin neighbourhood between January and September. However, he said he and his colleagues needed to be “safe.” “That sucks too,” he said.
Getting chased down the sidewalk by an aggressive bulldog. a close friend rushed to urgent care with severe bite wounds after another attack. Startups require total obsession with product and execution. a team cannot build the future when everyday survival consumes half their focus between the transit stop and the front door. Sixth Street runs near the Tenderloin and downtown. The surrounding Market Street area has also faced concerns about drug activity, street crime and vacant commercial space. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.