By Kevin Truong : sfstandard – excerpt
Entities tied to the legendary Apple designer have spent tens of millions buying up nearly a city block in Jackson Square.
You can call legendary iPhone designer Sir Jony Ive something of a Jackson Square superfan—so much so that the famously private figure once penned an ode to the roughly six-block micro-neighborhood in the Financial Times.
Now appreciation has morphed into a mini-empire, as entities tied to Ive have spent the last four years accumulating the better part of a block in the neighborhood, bordered by Columbus and Pacific avenues and Jackson and Montgomery streets.
Consider it the Ive Hive, if you will…(more)