timespace × SoMa West Community Benefit District
On November 3, 2026, timespace Inc. and the SoMa West Community Benefit District (SoMa West CBD), a community-based organization in San Francisco, signed a Letter of Understanding (LoU) to jointly develop SoMa ZINE, a new neighborhood media initiative.
As part of this collaboration, timespace will provide the AI app and lead editorial production and publishing, while SoMa West CBD will connect the project with residents, local businesses, artists, and community organizations. Together, they will launch a neighborhood magazine shaped by the people of SoMa.
For timespace founder Takahito Iguchi, who lived in SoMa for 13 years, this project is also a homecoming.
SoMa ZINE brings together the neighborhood's residents, independent businesses, artists, culture, and everyday moments, seen through the eyes of those who know the neighborhood best.
Notice something that catches your eye on the street and take a photo (Scan). AI researches its history and context and turns it into a draft article (Story). Human editors review and select the stories (Pick), bringing them together into magazine editions, available in print and online (Edition).
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Initially, timespace will lead editing and publishing. Over time, the goal is for the people of SoMa to create, edit, and publish their own ZINEs.
This initiative builds on SF / ZINE, published during TechCrunch Disrupt in October 2026. What began as a single magazine is now taking the next step: toward a neighborhood where people continually tell their own stories, in their own voices.
Old neighbors and new, together.
A new chapter in SoMa's story begins here.
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