Arts & Entertainment Thousands Turn Out for Toro y Moi DJ Set at Downtown First Thursdays In case you missed it, singer, songwriter, and producer Chaz Bear aka Toro y Moi was the headliner at Downtown First Thursdays last night, and a major crowd showed up for the day-after-New-Year's-Day event.
SF News SF Supervisors Streamline Permit Rules to Create More Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties The recent tick-up of more alcohol-permitted “entertainment zone” parties may turn into a flood of more such parties, as the SF supervisors just approved legislation to create a whole lot more of these parties downtown, and in SoMa and Union Square.
Arts & Entertainment Yet More Outdoor Downtown ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties Could Be Coming Under New Legislation From Aaron Peskin As downtown San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.
SF News UC Says No to Proposed Campus In SF's Downtown A kind of moonshot proposal to install a new University of California campus in downtown San Francisco — one of a number of ideas that have been thrown out there in the last year by the mayor to bring new life to downtown — has been declined by the university.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Proposes ‘Entertainment Zone’ Where Bars Can Sell Open Containers for Outdoor Events SF Mayor London Breed’s latest gambit to get you to please go downtown and spend money again is her new proposed “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell alcohol to street patrons, and the first of these could be on the Financial District’s Front Street.
SF News Mayor London Breed Hopes to Lure Historically Black Colleges to Downtown SF With New Program On Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a plan to begin offering summer classes through historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the city, and the intention of luring at least one of those HBCUs to establish a satellite campus downtown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants Opening In SF's Financial District Point to Optimism For Downtown Recovery A bevy of recent and upcoming openings in and around the FiDi, including a new Osha Thai and a new Wayfare Tavern, point to some bullishness about things picking up downtown.
Arts & Entertainment Holiday-Themed Projection Mapping Display ‘Let’s Glow SF’ Returns to Razzle-Dazzle SF Buildings Friday Night Friday night kicks off the third year of the holiday projection mapping display Let Glow SF, bringing animated ice castles and freaky festive projections to the sides of San Francisco buildings.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Night Market and Friday Parties Help to Launch 'Vacant to Vibrant' Program A night market on Thursday night hosted by Sucka Flea, and a bunch of individual parties at the pop-up businesses in the program, are celebrating the launch of SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, with the hope of breathing some new life into downtown.
SF News Meet the First 17 Pop-Ups That the City Will Pay to Live Rent-Free Downtown In Revitalization Effort We learned in April that the city was offering to pay pop-ups as much as $8,000 to occupy vacant retail spaces downtown. We now know the first batch will include Devil’s Teeth Bakery, KALW, and a flea market called Sucka Flea.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Bars, Restaurants, and Market Street Dance Parties Envisioned In New Downtown Revival Program It's the third summer in a row that a new initiative or program is seeking to breathe some life into SF's struggling, sparsely populated downtown. But this time it sounds like money is actually being thrown at filling vacant storefronts.
Business & Tech Mayor London Breed Announces Tax Breaks, Other Incentives Aimed at Reviving SF's Downtown In her State of the City address Thursday, SF Mayor London Breed announced a multipart plan aimed at revitalizing the city's beleaguered, seemingly half-empty downtown, and it involves some Twitter tax-break-style tax breaks.
SF News Study Ranks San Francisco Dead Last In U.S. for Downtown Economic Recoveries Yet another analysis points out the well-reported state of affairs that downtown San Francisco’s economic recovery from the pandemic is awfully sluggish, but this one purports that we’re in last place among 62 North American cities.
SF News Asana to Expand SF Footprint by 71,000 Square Feet in SoMa While most tech companies are downsizing — or outright eliminating — their corporate headquarters in San Francisco, the work management platform Asana is actually increasing its physical presence in the city by leasing a new office space near its South of Market headquarters.
SF News Business Group Proposes Nebulous 'Reimagining’ of Downtown SF By ‘Reclaiming Street Space’ Would more street closings and beautified public spaces get you back to a moribund downtown San Francisco? One business group is betting so, but the plan is still mostly aspirational and does not yet have a price tag attached.
SF News State of SF Economy: Tech Booming, Unemployment Low, But Tourism and Hospitality Still Screwed The SF unemployment rate is a fabulously low 2.9%, but the FiDi is still a ghost town, and SF’s economic recovery lags behind that of other cities, according to a new report from the Office of the Controller.
SF News Illegal Downtown Parker Attacks Woman Who Asks Him To Move A man turned a parking misstep into what police describe as an "attempted robbery" Wednesday, when he attacked a woman who tried to get him to depart a space he improperly occupied. Police
SF News Deplorable Teens Beat And Rob Witness To Downtown Misbehavior A man who sought to document the dreadful behavior of a group of teens was beaten and robbed Sunday, as the kids were less than pleased to have their errant acts caught on
SF News Market Street Offices Of Anti-Defamation League Evacuated After Bomb Threat Toward the end of a day during which Jewish Community Centers across the country received a wave of bomb threats, the 720 Market Street offices of the Anti-Defamation League were evacuated late this
SF News Pride Sunday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers Though San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr told the Chron that Sunday's Pride celebration and parade was "off the hook," he didn't mean that in an law-breaking way — the event that he
SF News Large Sinkhole On Fourth Street, Caused By Central Subway Construction, May Take Weeks To Fix A pretty significant sinkhole that appeared at Fourth and Jessie Streets over the weekend, which the SFMTA is euphemistically referring to as a "void in the street," may take two weeks or more
SF News Driver Hits Cyclist While Making U-Turn On Market A cyclist was sent to the hospital after getting slammed by a truck driver making a U-turn on Market and Front Tuesday night. The happened a little after 10 p.m. at Market
Arts & Entertainment Several SF Office Buildings Had A Conversation Today Using Post-its In downtown San Francisco today, several office buildings (at least four around Second and Jesse) conversed with each other, as they do, with Post-it notes. And it's downright delightful. They even played hangman
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Brunch Menus At Verbena, Bluestem Brasserie Brunch season is upon us. (I just made that up, "brunch season," but do consider it a thing.) And with that, two excellent ways to avoid the Mission on weekends welcome you and
SF News Don't Forget, It's Critical Mass (And A Giants Game) Tonight It's the last Friday of the month, and you know what that means: Critical Mass. The monthly “organized coincidence” of bike riders kicks off at 6 PM at Justin Herman Plaza. "There will
