• There’s another Downtown First Thursdays happening tonight, but this one has the additional mobile jazz club in the mid-Market area. The usual First Thursdays is happening on Second Street between Market and Howard streets, but the mobile jazz club is at the simultaneous UNSTAGED: First Thursdays ✦ Live on Mid-Market on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. [Market Street Arts]
• After the 2023 closure of the Fisherman’s Wharf Safeway, Grocery Outlet Bargain Market has signed a letter of intent to take over that vacated space in the Northpoint Shopping Center. This has been long-rumored, and is still not official, but signals that the deal is definitely on the verge of closing. [Chronicle]
• PG&E will be asking the California Public Utilities Commission to raise your rates by about $6 per month at a meeting next week. This would be the fourth PG&E rate hike this year, but the utility claims it's necessary to recoup costs from the extreme winter storms of the last two years. [KGO]
• BART had its highest ridership day since the pandemic on Wednesday, and it may be more driven by the new evasion-proof fare gates than any event that was happening on a normal humdrum weekday. [KRON4]
• Less encouraging public transit news down in San Mateo County, as about a third of SamTrans drivers staged a sickout Thursday over a labor dispute. [NBC Bay Area]
• The now-closed Folio Books in Noe Valley will reopen as Noe Valley Books, run by former Folio Books employees. The place had of course been Phoenix Books from 1985 to 2013. [Mission Local]

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