When one of the Sac Street dealers told the Mercury News that he was just another businessman in the Bay Area, his specific references might have been lost on the average reader. “You expect me to work at McDonald’s or Home Depot?” he asked reporter Sean Webby a couple of years after the shopping center opened. “I make more here in an hour than I would make there in a week.”41 McDonald’s and Home Depot weren’t just arbitrarily chosen mass-market businesses dependent on low-wage service work: They were also two of the big tenants at the Ravenswood 101 Retail Center, along with (no surprise) Starbucks and three big-box electronics retailers. The state authorities and their friends at the Department of Commerce did expect him to work at McDonald’s or Home Depot, or Togo’s or Taco Bell, or Good Guys or Best Buy or Office Depot. Precisely so. That’s where EPA was adding jobs in the twenty-first century, and there wasn’t anything subtle about it. In addition to Hoover’s federal department and the retailers, the center’s inaugural plaque acknowledges Bank of America and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. At the very bottom: ORIGINAL SITE OF RAVENSWOOD HIGH SCHOOL.