SF News 25-Story '5M' Office Tower Tops Out in SoMa, Still Has No Tenant The market for office space in SoMa was white hot when the massive 5M project got its approvals six years ago. But now that the 640,000-sf office building at 415 Natoma is nearing completion, it may have a hard time getting filled.
SF News Missing Man Found Dead Inside Guerrero Street Apartment Building A 50-year-old San Francisco man who had been reported missing in early January has been found dead inside his Guerrero Street apartment building, less than a week after family members pressed the SFPD to prioritize the case.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Happy Mardi Gras, Everybody The mass-vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum opens today for Tiers 1a and 1b, the SF school board has delayed a meeting to discuss the reopening of schools, and it's a chilly and totally abnormal Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces 9/11-Style Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot; Graham Suggests Harris Could Be Impeached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced the creation of an independent commission to investigate and report on what led to the events of January 6, and what happened when rioters stormed the Capitol that day.
SF News SF Firefighter Talks COVID Fears, and About a Crazy Weekend of Ocean Beach Rescues in August 2020 San Francisco firefighter and paramedic Sam Gebler was featured on the public radio program "This American Life" over the weekend recalling a particularly crazy workday last August — and how COVID has come to color so much of what he and his colleagues have faced on the job over the last year.
SF News Mission Resident Disappears After Paranoid Episode Relating to January 6 Riot in DC, SFPD Investigating There is a strange missing-persons case taking shape in San Francisco, and it remains unclear how 50-year-old Christopher Woitel left his Guerrero Street apartment without being seen on a surveillance camera.
SF News SF Mass-Vaccination Sites at City College and Moscone Center Closed This Week Due to Lack of Vaccine Supply Much like other counties in California over the past two weeks, San Francisco has had to pause its mass-vaccination effort due to supply issues.
SF News Presidents' Day Headlines: Arrest Made In Shooting Near Embarcadero Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick's department has not issued a COVID-related public health citation in seven months, California's test-positivity rate just hit its lowest level since November, and SF's Historic Preservation Commission will consider extending the stay of that Ferris Wheel.
SF News Californians With Underlying Health Risks Can Start Getting Vaccines — at Doctors' Discretion — on March 15 California's Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced Friday that millions of younger Californians with disabilities and underlying health conditions that put them at risk for severe COVID infections will become eligible for vaccinations starting March 15.
SF News Daughter of Bay Area Woman Who Was the First Confirmed U.S. COVID Death Wants to Thank Biden For Mention President Biden gave a January speech in which he mentioned Patricia Dowd, the 57-year-old woman from San Jose who was found to be the first confirmed U.S. death from COVID-19 last February. Now, a week after the anniversary of her death, her daughter is speaking out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Craft Beer Week Kicks Off With Virtual Events, Beer Bundles, and More SF Beer Week has, for this pandemic era, transformed into California Craft Beer Week for this year only, and it's a statewide celebration of great beer from all corners and counties with plenty of stuff you can order and/or pick up in person.
SF News Everyone Over 65 In the Mission, Bernal, and Potrero Can Now Get Drop-In Vaccinations at SF General If you are over 65 and live in the Mission, Bernal Heights, Excelsior, Dogpatch, or Potrero Hill and haven't yet received a COVID vaccine, you can now drop in and get one at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital any day between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
SF News Muni Now Saying N-Judah and Other Metro Lines Won't Return Until May or Later As of mid-January, the SFMTA was suggesting that the N-Judah might finally be returning to service this month or next. But no. Now it's looking like May.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Low-Key Lunar New Year Celebrations Begin A man got stuck in the closing doors of a BART train at Powell Station and was injured, 25-year-old fitness instructors are apparently calling themselves "healthcare workers" to get COVID vaccines in the South Bay, and a hearing date has been set for SF's lawsuit against its school district.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds Announce Huge Meth Bust, Seizing Over 800 Pounds The Port of SF is moving forward with a huge redevelopment project at Piers 30-32, the SF school board rejected a white gay man's appointment to a parent advisory council based on his race, and the FBI just made one of its biggest meth busts in Bay Area history.
Arts & Entertainment SF Will Prioritize Struggling and Legacy Venues for Entertainment Relief Fund — But the Fund Needs Private Donations The SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish the San Francisco Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, as a way to funnel money to struggling music venues and arts institutions that have been shuttered by the pandemic.
SF Politics City Contractor Florence Kong Becomes First to Be Sentenced In Federal Corruption Probe Florence Kong, who did business with SF's Public Works Dept under former director Mohammed Nuru, today became the first figure to be sentenced in the ranging federal corruption investigation that became public early last year.
SF News CVS Stores In 18 Bay Area Cities to Begin Vaccinating People Friday Vaccination Nation is finally getting into full swing with both large-scale, mass-vaccination sites like Levi's Stadium and Moscone Center now open, and with CVS stores now taking appointments across the region beginning Friday.
Business & Tech Small But Angry Mobs Show Up Outside Robinhood Headquarters in Menlo Park, Animal Feces Thrown In the wake of the GameStop debacle of two weeks ago, some angry Robinhood customers have taken their anger offline and shown up at the front door of the company's headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Arts & Entertainment West Portal Movie Theater CineArts at Empire Has Permanently Closed The historic Empire Cinema in West Portal, now over 95 years old, is in search of a new operator, as Cinemark has decided not to renew its lease and to close its CineArts at Empire theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay High School Student's Nonprofit That Makes Baked Goods for Those In Need Expands to Eight States A high school junior in Fremont who's been giving away her baked goods to local homeless shelters since she was 13 has launched a nonprofit to mobilize other teens to do the same — and it's now grown to 10 chapters in eight states.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Funeral Reimbursement Program to Begin For COVID Victims' Families Burglaries are on the rise in Bernal Heights and DA Boudin has some theories, the Tenderloin is set to get a 20-mph speed limit, and why New York City is reopening far faster than the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Driver In Fatal Collision at Lake Merced Was Smoking 'Unknown Substance,' Prosecutors Say A child was struck and killed by a car in the Bayview Wednesday morning, a teen girl in Marin County apparently fabricated a story about being attacked while jogging, and San Francisco is returning two artifacts to Thailand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Sonoma's Girl & the Fig Closes Temporarily After Dustup Over a Black Lives Matter Mask A Sonoma restaurant was called out by a former employee last month for, as she described it, "forcing her out" of her job because she refused to abide by a face-mask policy that required her not to wear a Black Lives Matter mask she had been wearing.
SF News Another Encampment Fire Sends Smoke Over Bayview A fire at a homeless encampment in the Bayview on Wednesday sent a plume of smoke over the city, and it's the second time in four months that an encampment in the neighborhood has burned.
