Artists retake SF neighborhods colonized by dot-com companies

The Wall St. Journal has a nice article about how artists, theater companies, and other bohemians are retaking the loft and office buildings they were forced out of during the dot-com bubble. Let's trace the story, courtesy of the free archives of SFGate:

• Feb. 1999: Office boom blurs boundaries between SOMA, financial district
• June 2000: Arts groups will be pushed out by high tech
• Aug. 2000: Dancers sweat as studio space gets scarce
• Oct. 2000: Economic boom threatens to kill off SF's alternative culture
• Nov. 2000: Artists march to protest rents
• Mar. 2001: Buildings try to fill empty floors amid dot-com collapse
• June 2001: Dot-com demise sends vacancies soaring
• Oct. 2001: Art Explosion -- Ex-Dot-commer artists and tumbling commercial rents come together
• Nov 2001: Arts groups now endangered by dropoffs in donations

And that's about it from the Chronicle. Reason? The story was actually over with more than a year ago -- and the WSJ is now just catching up. Nice of them to notice, though.