Arts & Entertainment SF Getting Another Mosaic Tiled Stairway, This One In Anza Vista, as a Tribute to ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee SF’s next tiled mosaic stairway was just approved to be installed without fees, and it’s a powerful homage to late 84-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee, who was killed nearby in a brazen morning attack in 2021.
SF News That Whole Foods Planned for the Geary and Masonic Best Buy Space Is Now in Limbo, Might Not Be Happening The nearly seven-year saga of a Whole Foods trying to move into the long-vacant Best Buy at Anza Vista’s City Center plaza could be ending with a fizzle, as the Amazon-owned grocery chain themselves appears to be pulling the plug on the project.
SF News SF City Hall OKs Whole Foods Moving Into the Long-Empty Former Best Buy at Geary and Masonic Nearly six-and-a-half years since Whole Foods called dibs on the vacated Best Buy space in City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue, the SF Planning Commission finally authorized the Amazon-owned grocery chain to move into the space Thursday.
SF News Bullet From 'Big Gun' In Sunday Night Shooting Crashes Through Home of Former Mayor's Family Well, this is crazy! The son and daughter-in-law of former SF Mayor Frank Jordan heard the sound of glass shattering in their bedroom Sunday night as they were putting their kids to bed. And it was apparently a stray bullet that had traveled a half-mile from a shooting near Jefferson Square Park.
SF News Gunshots Fired During Carjacking Attempt in Anza Vista, Rattles Neighborhood Last week, people going about their lives at a popular SF shopping plaza were shaken when the otherwise quiet area in Anza Vista erupted in gunfire.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin in Murder of Elderly Anza Vista Man, Packing Courtroom and Drawing Rally The January 2021 killing of 81-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee in San Francisco had its first preliminary hearing at the Hall of Justice Tuesday, with the victim’s loved ones and their supporters rallying outside beforehand.
Arts & Entertainment 'North of NOPA' Now a Thing? The skidmarks at Coldwell Banker, hawking 2020 Ellis, have helped coin a new neighborhood name. And it's disgusting. Anza Vista/Western Addition is now allegedly called—are you sitting down?—North of NOPA.
