SF News SFPD Makes Huge Deal Out of 16th & Mission Bust That Only Produced Four Arrests, Tiny Smattering of Drugs The Mayor, Sheriff, and Chief of Police thought it was worthy of a press conference that SFPD did a “saturation” bust at 16th and Mission Wednesday night, yet this operation resulted in just four arrests and the seizure of one measly ounce of drugs.
SF News Tiny Home Homeless Housing Facility Opens at 16th Street BART, Behind Big, Black Gates The on-again, off-again effort to open 60 tiny homes for the homeless is complete, though a large fence surrounds the entrance of the new facility called “Mission Cabins” in apparent hopes that passersby won’t notice it.
SF News Street Vending to Be Banned Outright on Mission Street, as City Workers Cite Assaults Supervisor Hillary Ronen made the surprise announcement that the city will ban all vending on Mission Street (or try to, at least), as threats and attacks on city workers have apparently been escalating.
SF News Now 16th Street BART Plaza Has Those Metal Anti-Vending Barricades Put Up, Too The waist-high barriers meant to curb illegal street vending at 24th and Mission streets have now also popped up at the 16th and Mission Street BART Plaza too, though they may be deterring sidewalk access more than they deter street vending.
SF News SFPD Toots Own Horn For Finally Making Three Arrests For Stolen-Item Vending on Mission Street We now have three arrests of people allegedly selling clearly shoplifted goods on Mission Street, but the methods used make one wonder why we didn’t start doing this months or years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Bond Bar (the Former Esta Noche) May Become New Lesbian-Centric Queer Bar The ownership behind Thee Parkside may have a new “womxn and femme-centered queer bar” on tap in January, apparently in the 16th Street spot currently occupied by Bond Bar, which is the former Esta Noche.
SF News Brace Yourself — Another Large ‘Red Bus Lane’ Construction Project Starts Monday, This Time on 16th Street The same concept from “the mess on Van Ness” is being applied to 16th Street, and is expected to take more than a year to complete, but in this case at least Phase 1 of the project was pretty much completed on time.
SF News Bevan Dufty Tries To Make Point To BART Management By Cleaning Station Himself In defiance of BART management, BART board member Bevan Dufty has been picking up a broom and helping clean 16th Street Station himself. Dufty has been arguing that the station, one of the
SF News Revisiting 'Lone Star Swan', The Bird Man Of 16th Street BART "Everybody wants to know where I came from, who I am, why I write, why I feed the birds,” John Ratliff, who is alternately known as "Birdman" or "Lone Star Swan" tells Mission
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gestalt On 16th Shut Down For Selling Weed Mission beer and bicyclist bar Gestalt Haus has had their liquor license suspended for 30 days after a doorman was caught selling marijuana. California Alcoholic Beverage Control spokesman John Carr issued a statement
SF News Mission Development Property Breaks Real Estate Record A development property on 16th between Valencia and Guerrero, the Superior Automotive site at 3150 16th, just sold for $8.7 million in a land deal that may be the highest price ever
SF News 16th Street Dust-up Turns Into Stabbing Early Monday morning, a fight between two gentlemen in the Mission District escalated into a stabbing scenario. SF Appeal notes: "Around 1:15 a.m., a 20-year-old man and a 30-year-old man got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar, ABV, Coming to Tokyo GoGo Space On 16th Street Three local bar dudes who have worked and/or created bar programs at the city's most notable cocktail establishments are teaming up to open a new spot in the vacant Tokyo GoGo space
SF News Jack Spade Cleared For 16th Street (For Now) Wednesday evening, the Board of Appeals voted 3-2 to allow a Jack Spade store to continue building out their controversial new store on 16th Street in the Mission. Despite an aggressive campaign from
