Small Businesses Feel the Squeeze on Mission Street

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Etta Yung, co-owner of the Bonita Trading Co., has owned the building with her husband Kai where their shop has been for 25 years. They are considering closing their store and retiring as business declines. Photo by Abraham Rodriguez/Mission Local

By Abraham Rodriguez, Mission Local

Take a stroll along Mission Street and you’ll see two sides of the ever-changing city: the family-owned, brick-and-mortar stores that go back decades and the new-school minimalist design of the more recently opened shops.

No matter their tenure, nearly all of the 59 active businesses along the two blocks between 21st and 23rd streets on Mission Street are trying to bring in the young tech crowd that has moved into the neighborhood during the past decade. And that crowd seems to favor experiences over commodities.

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