SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuttered FiDi Bar Harrington’s Trying to Make A Comeback, Via Crowdfunding There will be some sort of St. Patrick’s Day party again at downtown Irish pub Harrington’s, and the Financial District bar that’s been closed for two-and-a-half years is mounting a crowdfunded comeback bid.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Celeb Chef Tyler Florence Plans New Wayfare Tavern In FiDi’s Former Dar Fatma And GNC Store It’s unclear whether Wayfare Tavern is moving, or if they’re just opening a second space, but Food Network personality Tyler Florence is the latest to make a big new bet on downtown with reported plans for a new Wayfare Tavern location at Pine and Battery Streets.
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.
Business & Tech SF Leads the Nation in Workers Who Don’t Want to Return to the Office A Stanford analysis shows a 53% reduction in how much time San Francisco workers are spending in the office compared to pre-pandemic, the largest cutback on office time of any major city’s workforce in the country.
SF News Friday Happy Hours Are Now Weak Sauce, and That May Be the New Normal for Downtown SF Bars Friday Happy Hours remain on the rocks, but Thursdays are suddenly hopping, as hybrid work produces mixed results for SF bars’ economic recovery.
SF News The Transamerica Pyramid Is Getting a $250 Million Renovation The new owner of the Transamerica Pyramid has no interest in playing second banana to the taller and shinier Salesforce Tower, so they’re renovating the building and adding features to attract people who do not work there.
SF News Mayor Breed Would Like You Back Downtown Working in the Office Again, Thank You Very Much The mayor wants businesses to take a “pledge” to return their workers to offices, in a new Welcome Back to SF campaign that’s long on business interests, and short on public health concerns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Best Parklet in the City’ Trashed by a Vandal, and Police Reportedly Did Not Intervene When a downtown wine bar's prize-winning parklet was thoroughly vandalized on December 31, security footage indicates SFPD approached the vandal, but then left and allowed him to continue.
SF News Financial District Sees Estimated 20% Drop in Foot Traffic Since Omicron Was First Recorded in SF Just when things were looking up for local commerce, Omicron made its way into San Francisco — taking the city more than a few steps back in its financial recovery from the pandemic. Fast forward over a month later, and car and foot traffic in downtown SF are still anemic.
SF News Thieves Throw Party In Nearly Open Downtown SF Ramen Restaurant, Leave Behind Bottles, Vomit Some burglars decided to throw a party in a soon-to-open restaurant in downtown San Francisco, and it appears they invited friends and hung around for a few hours, drinking whatever they could find and smoking weed.
Arts & Entertainment Holiday-Themed Projection Mapping Will Display on Downtown SF Buildings Animated ice castles, poinsettias, and polar bears are coming to the sides of four downtown buildings in December, as “the largest holiday projection mapping holiday in the U.S.” rings in the season.
Business & Tech SF Tech Companies Losing Hundreds of Millions on Office Space They Can’t Rent Dropbox alone dropped more than $400 million on empty downtown office space, as tech companies all over the Bay Area are bleeding billions to rent office spaces that are just cold sitting totally empty.
Business & Tech SF No Longer the Top City for Tech Industry Office Space Leasing, Knocked Down Several Notches San Francisco is now No. 6 in an annual study where we'd perennially ranked No. 1, as we fall from the top five in terms of how much office space the tech industry is leasing here.
SF News FiDi Thieves Beat and Rob Elderly Man of Camera, as the Weekend Saw Something of a Robbery Spree Though robberies are down 28 percent compared to this time last year, the slow return of gatherings and semi-normalcy may bring back both petty and violent theft.
Arts & Entertainment Keanu Reeves Spotted In Financial District For 'Matrix 4' Filming; Production Continues Into Tomorrow Keanu Reeves has been seen around the Bay Area these past two months while filming is underway for the fourth installment of 'The Matrix' franchise. And the Neo sightings continue to mount up as production for 'The Matrix 4' carries on throughout San Francisco this weekend and into tomorrow.
SF News FiDi Crime Team Snatches Phone From Woman's Hand How many men does it take to steal a cell phone at a busy San Francisco corner? Three, if a recent crime in the Financial District is any indication. According to the San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FiDi To Get Mediterranean-Mexican Lunch Spot Complete With Falafel Tacos Med-Mex Fusion Restaurant 'Torshi MeXiterranean' To Make FiDi Debut https://t.co/2qK50vaqzf by @heysuehey pic.twitter.com/W1BcbcT3IO— Hoodline (@Hoodline) April 28, 2017 The next frontier in fusion cuisine to hit the
SF News FiDi Basement Fire Displaces Residents, Closes Alfred's Steakhouse For Recovery Damage from a basement fire last night just before 9 p.m. at 662 Clay Street, a three-story building consisting of housing and SRO units over commercial units, has temporarily displaced more than
SF News Video: Archeologist Excavates Keel, Artifacts From Gold Rush-Era Ship At SF Development Site The Arkansas Re-discovery from Grosvenor Americas on Vimeo. As local history buffs know and will never tire of telling you, much of San Francisco's Financial District is built on landfill — the Bay waters
SF News Fears Of Serial Suspects Stirred By Multiple Financial District Muggings A pair of similar muggings moments and a block apart have raised fears that a duo of serial robbers is on the loose in San Francisco. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Financial District Lottery Ticket Looter Escapes With Goods A man who has apparently made a habit of troublesome behavior struck again Tuesday, stealing a stack of lottery tickets then running off into the night. The heist went down at a store
SF News Near Old Ship Saloon, More Remnants Of Gold Rush Era Vessel Discovered The Old Ship Saloon at Pacific and Battery is so named for the Gold Rush era ship the Arkansas: That vessel ran aground in 1849 after a rough passage from New York, and
SF News No Injuries After FiDi Manhole Cover Blows Off An underground explosion beneath in the Financial District this morning resulted in what the Fire Department calls a "PG&E Vault Incident" and what the casual layperson observer might describe as "oh
SF News SFPD Seeking Two Sexual Assailants After Chinatown, Financial District Attacks After two women were attacked in separate sexual assaults on Sunday, April 24, the San Francisco Police Department has released photos of the suspects in the hope that members of the public will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eatsa's Automated Quinoa Empire Expands With New FiDi Location Next Week The second San Francisco Eatsa, which is less like a restaurant and more like an Amazon Locker for quinoa bowls, is set to open next week in that land of the quick lunch,
