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To be fair, people have always driven and parked in the industrial belt east of Harrison Street, which became a haven for artists and scrappy dot-commers in the mid-1990s.—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2025 After discovering the perils of having all their wealth concentrated in one highly volatile and speculative industry, the dot-commers turned to wealth management.—Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025