SF News SF's 'Doomed' Downtown Actually Back to Almost Normal at Night, Some Nights A new dataset suggests that while SF still lags way behind New York and other cities in terms of daytime, mid-week foot traffic, people are now frequenting bars and restaurants in downtown SF almost at pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Goldenvoice Is Throwing a ‘Doom Loop’ Concert in SF The festival producer behind Coachella and Portola is leaning into the "doom loop" narrative and throwing a small one-day show at the Regency Ballroom in March named after it.
SF News Homeless Man Accused of Attacking Ex-SF Fire Commissioner Acquitted of All Charges On Friday, an SF jury found Garrett Doty, the 25-year-old unhoused man accused of assaulting former SF fire commissioner Donald Carmignani with a metal pipe in April, not guilty, after his defense claimed self-defense.
Arts & Entertainment 'We Love SF' Campaign Launches to Counter Negative Narratives About the City A small-scale campaign that seems to be part PR and part event promotion, dubbed WeLoveSF, is seeking to upend the "doom loop" and drug-crime narratives that have dominated media coverage about San Francisco all of this year.
SF News San Francisco's Chief Economist Says 'Doom Loop' Talk Overblown, Consumer Spending Nearing Pre-Pandemic Levels Continuing their mea culpa over all that "doom loop" coverage they've done for several months, the San Francisco Chronicle has a piece today where they — finally! — get SF's own Chief Economist Ted Egan to weigh in with his sober opinion on the matter.
SF News Op-Ed Suggests St. Louis, Moreso Than SF, Is In a Serious 'Doom Loop' and No One Is Talking About It It is actually dangerous and deserted in parts of St. Louis, and a Republican legislature in Missouri has tried its best to counter any progressive policy the city tries to enact, leading to unproductive political fights, as a Times opinion piece suggests.
SF News SF Chronicle Now Seems to Regret Amplifying the 'Doom Loop' Narrative It Heavily Amplified The San Francisco Chronicle is standing like a kid who cried "Fire!" amid a rush of sirens and chaos asking what all the fuss is about, as it has a front-page story today about the ramifications of the "doom loop" narrative the paper itself amplified.
Business & Tech Owner of SF's Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender Another bit of bad news for downtown San Francisco arrived Monday morning with the revelation that the investment firm that owns the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels is walking away from its debts and giving up hope on a return of SF's convention market.
SF News Wal-Mart Plague To Spread Throughout Bay Area Chilling bog-box retailer Wal-Mart plans on opening four Neighborhood Market grocery stores in the Bay Area at sites in the South Bay and East Bay. The morally-questionable company will unleash stores in San
misc American Football Spectacular: After Beating The 49ers, One NYG Fan's Diagnosis Now we've got all these rumors swirling that Head Coach Nolan II will be fired after this latest underwhelming showing. American Football Spectacular's New York American Football Giants correspondent Joon Lee has some
