Artists tend to gravitate toward blighted urban neighborhoods for the cheap rent. Over time, the galleries and coffee shops 'gentrify' these areas, making them attractive to condo developers and eventually, unaffordable for the artists. But in San Francisco, the biggest artists' colony on the West Coast appears to have found a way to share space with a massive new development.
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