SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Walk down Fillmore Street in the heart of San Francisco, and you’ll be greeted by several familiar businesses – some of which have been here for decades. But that may soon be changing.
Since the start of the year, a billionaire venture capitalist has bought several of the buildings in this area.
And many of these business owners say they’re being forced to leave.
“We’re scared. We don’t want to lose everything,” said Steve Amano.
Amano is the co-owner of Ten-Ichi, a sushi bar that was opened by his Japanese immigrant parents back in 1978.
Amano feels they’re being strong-armed into closing next month.
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“I signed that termination agreement because they were saying things like we’re going to charge you this. All these numbers they were firing at us that we’d have to pay. That was freaking us out,” said Amano.
Across the street at La Mediterranee, we were told a similar …