Longtime CEO of Bay Area think tank SPUR departing for Australia


Gabriel Metcalf, president and CEO of SPUR, is leaving the nonprofit urban think tank at the end of the year for a job in Australia.

Metcalf said in a letter to SPUR members that he will become CEO for Committee for Sydney, a city planning group in Australia's largest metropolis.

Throughout his years at SPUR, Metcalf was a public advocate for building more housing to create a more equitable Bay Area and for investing in public transit to alleviate the gridlock that increasingly defines life in…

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