Twitter Will Move to Market Street

Thanks to a vote by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors earlier this month that capped Twitter’s payroll taxes at current levels, the company won’t have to relocate to Brisbane or any other city. In fact, Twitter said in its blog today that it has signed a lease to move its headquarters to Market Square, the building at 1355 Market Street also known as the San Francisco Mart. It’s part of a deal aimed at bringing big more big tenants (and their employees) into the city’s beleaguered Central Market area. In the post, the company thanked local politicians for “spearheading legislation that will help revitalize an area of San Francisco where office space has sat vacant for decades.” Twitter, whose offices are currently at 795 Folsom Street, said it expects to relocate to the San Francisco Mart by mid-2012.

Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/