Arts & Entertainment F Train to Become Mobile Jazz Club For New Mid-Market First Thursdays Block Party The scope of activities happening in downtown San Francisco on the first Thursday of every month just got bigger with UNSTAGED, a new Mid-Market block party being put on by Market Street Arts. And it will turn the F-line streetcar into a boistrous, mobile jazz venue.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Makes Good on Threat to Close X/Twitter Offices In SF, Says Office Will Close In a Few Weeks While there was some suggestion that Xitter might let go of just a portion of its longtime office space at what quickly became known as The Twitter Building over a decade ago, it looks like Elon Musk is finally getting out of SF for good.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter/X Now Looking to Sublease Entire Market Street Headquarters It could be a sign of financial trouble for Musk’s Twitter, and it’s definitely a bad sign for downtown SF’s office space recovery, that the social media company just put all 800,000 square feet of its Ninth and Market headquarters up for sublease.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Market Street May Get a Block Party on the Same First Thursdays as the Party on Second Street The stretch of Market Street between Powell Street and Civic Center has long been the subject of great hope for city officials, and those hopes have been raised and dashed many times over the years.
SF News Some Anonymous Donor Just Gave $100 Million to Build Affordable Housing for Artists on Market Street We may be losing the McRoskey Mattress store at Market and Gough streets, but we’d be getting about 100 affordable housing units for artists in a slick new building, thanks to a cool $100 million from an anonymous benefactor.
Business & Tech Empty Office Building at Sixth and Market, Which Last Sold for $62 Million, Sells for Just $6.5 Million The 955 Market Street building that was once home to Burning Man headquarters, and then a whole bunch of WeWork offices, is now empty and just sold for a measly 10% of the price it fetched in 2016.
SF News City of SF Taking Over Lease for Five Floors of the Former Uber Headquarters, May Buy the Whole Building It’s like a 180-degree turn from the “Twitter Tax Break” days, as the City of San Francisco is grabbing office space in the 1455 Market Street building that used to be headquarters to Uber and Stripe, with an option to buy the whole building.
SF News Long-Vacant Mid-Market Condo Building Gets City Hall OK To Switch to Apartments Instead Mohammed Nuru bribery complications left a 12-story, 109-unit residential building empty for nearly three years, but that building known as The Oak just got the OK to convert from condos to apartments under a new owner who does not have any bribery charges.
SF News Luxury Apartment Complex NEMA Dodges Foreclosure by Striking a Deal With Its Lenders The impending foreclosure on the mid-Market apartment building NEMA is apparently no longer impending, as the developer behind the luxury high-rise has struck a deal with its creditors.
SF News Man Robbed, Stabbed Near SF's Mid-Market A 21-year-old man was gravely wounded in an armed robbery near the intersection of Mission and Seventh streets Monday night.
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News City Buys Former Zendesk HQ On Market Street, Will Make It ‘Mental Health Service Center’ A full reversal from an Ed Lee-era “Twitter tax break” deal, as after Zendesk bailed from 2019 Market Street during the pandemic, the City of San Francisco is buying the property with plans to transform it into a “mental health service center.”
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News Someone Died From an Overdose Inside the Mid-Market Whole Foods That Just Closed We’re learning there had been a fatal overdose in September at the Whole Foods at Eighth and Market Street that was closed down early this week, with someone who had OD’ed on fentanyl and methamphetamine while in the grocery store’s restroom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Whole Foods Closing Due to Terrible Street Conditions Outside The Whole Foods at Trinity Place, at Eighth and Market in San Francisco, is closing its doors one year after opening there, with the company citing the horrible street conditions outside as the reason.
SF News Mid-Market IKEA Store Likely to Open By Spring, With Rest of Mall to Follow There was some breaking news Thursday via a source with insider IKEA knowledge that the mall complex on SF's Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets is going to come alive sooner than we'd last heard.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market's LINE Hotel and One of Its Two Restaurants Open Next Week The delayed but much anticipated new hotel on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the LINE, finally opens its doors next week, and with it comes a new rooftop restaurant/lounge, and a new fine-dining restaurant as well as a lobby bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants, Including Rooftop Venue, Announced for Mid-Market's LINE Hotel There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
Arts & Entertainment A Mini-Golf Course (With Bar) From PGA Pro Rory McIlroy Might Be Slated to Join Mini-IKEA In Mid-Market Complex The retail and entertainment complex known as 6x6, on Market Street between 5th and 6th streets, which is soon to be home to a small-format IKEA store, might also be home to an SF location of mini-golf chain The Puttery.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey-Founded Payments Platform Block Is Bolting From Its Mid-Market Office Space Another big tech firm is eliminating its mid-Market presence in San Francisco, with digital payment firm Block saying it will not renew its giant lease at 1455 Market.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
SF News SF's Worst Walgreens Sees Fistfight With Unruly Suspect, Security Guard Injured What has long been San Francisco's worst Walgreens at 9th and Market was the site of a confrontation with an unruly man Wednesday that ended with a security guard going to the hospital.
SF Politics San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.
SF News Suspect Crashes Stolen Car at Van Ness and Market, Gets Arrested One person was arrested Monday morning after a dramatic hit-and-run crash on mid-Market in San Francisco in which, apparently, no one was hurt.
