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This nasty dispute between neighbors and nightclubs over the question of establishing an entertainment zone on 11th Street has gotten a lot of people worked up.

“People who don’t want noise from people enjoying music and each other shouldn’t live in SOMA, or in the big city at all,” declared one of Entertainment Commissioner Glendon (Anna Conda) Hyde’s supporters.

The last time this idea surfaced,  passions became so inflamed by the industry’s “Save the Music” campaign that a nearly completed 15 unit live/work building at the corner of 11th and Harrison Street burned to the ground. The fire was ruled arson but no one was ever prosecuted for the crime.

Maybe it’s time for folks on all sides of the issue to tone down their rhetoric a bit.

The much-hyped revival of Mid-Market didn’t come fast enough for David Addington and his company Fair Market Properties. J.K. Dineen reports in the San Francisco Business Times that Fair Market Properties, which bought 1028-1056 Market Street in 2004 for $6.4 million, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 18, according to public documents. Addington owes about $4 million to East West Bank.