• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is apparently scouting locations for potential detention facilities across California. The agency is looking at sites in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and elsewhere for space to house 5,600 migrants. [Chronicle]
  • A driver was assaulted and robbed Thursday night while stopped at a stoplight at 25th and Capp streets in the Mission. There were as many as five suspects involved, the driver was left unconscious. [CBS SF]
  • A Berkeley Verizon store employee has been charged in an identity theft case. The man is accused of stealing credit card numbers from mostly elderly customers. [Berkeleyside]
  • TMG Partners is planning a huge, 31-building residential complex with 261 multi-family units and 12 single-family homes on the site of the soon-to-be-demolished CPMC hospital on California Street. The architect for the project is New York-based Robert A.M. Stern Architects. [SF Business Times]
  • A 300-foot-long mockup of the eventual suicide-prevention net on the Golden Gate Bridge was installed this week. The full net won't be installed for two years. [Examiner]
  • A vandal went through Alamo Square Park this week and smashed all the dog-watering stations attached to water fountains. [Hoodline]
  • The removal of a newsstand in the middle of Montgomery BART station has created a "magic" echo chamber beneath a dome. [Chronicle]
  • Brazilian steakhouse Espetus on Market Street has run afoul of its neighbors because it isn't properly filtering all the smoke that comes out of its kitchen. [Chronicle]