SF News Pedestrian Struck and Injured In SF's Nob Hill; Two Cars Collide In Hayes Valley There were a pair of car crashes within minutes of each other Monday morning in San Francisco, one in Nob Hill and one in Hayes Valley.
SF News Hayes Valley's PROXY Likely to Stick Around for Years as Affordable Housing Development Remains Stalled What was intended to be a temporary community benefit on a site slated for affordable housing development within a few years, Hayes Valley's PROXY, shows no signs of going away anytime soon, despite some activists pushing for the housing to be built.
SF News Hayes Valley Building Destroyed By Fire Full of Squatters, Stoking Fears It Could Be Destroyed By Fire Again It was last August when an under-construction Hayes Valley building caught fire, with many speculating that people camped just outside the site caused the fire. Construction has gone nowhere since, and neighbors are alarmed that squatters appear to have moved in, and it could just burn again.
SF News Former Go-Go Dancer and Adult Film Performer Sentenced In 2017 Killing of Boyfriend In Hayes Valley A man who was accused of murdering his boyfriend inside the apartment they shared in Hayes Valley in late 2017 has taken a plea deal, and he's been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NightJar, a Sister Pop-Up to Nightbird In Hayes Valley, Opens With Homage to House of Prime Rib NightJar, a new pop-up venue opening next door to Nightbird in Hayes Valley from chef Kim Alter and partner/GM Ron Boyd, is debuting this week and will spend its first three months serving a menu inspired by House of Prime Rib.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley's Monsieur Benjamin Is Saying Adieu After 10 Years The French brasserie from Benu chef Corey Lee that opened a decade ago in Hayes Valley, Monsieur Benjamin, is set to close at the end of June, for undisclosed reasons.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Will Open At Long Last On Friday Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Vegan Spot Baia, Which Took Over the Storied Former Jardiniere Space, Is Closing After Three and a Half Years A major piece of San Francisco restaurant real estate will be back in play again this year, as upscale vegan Italian spot Baia is closing its doors at the end of the month.
SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News That One Block of Hayes Street Will Remain Car-Free for Another Year, But With Scaled-Back Hours A very small car-free street plan just got smaller, as the SFMTA voted this week to keep one block of Hayes Street car-free on the weekends, but with much more limited car-free hours.
SF News Developer Says That Long-Stalled Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s Will Open By Next Spring While Trader Joe’s has not officially confirmed this, the developer who recently bought the property slated to become the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s is claiming the new grocery store at 555 Fulton will be open by June 2024.
SF News Just In Time For Spooky Season, Live Rabid Bat Found In Hayes Valley A live and rabies-positive bat was found and captured in Hayes Valley several weeks ago, and the health department wants anyone who may have had any contact with the animal to give them a call.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Permanent Car-Free Hayes Street Effort Picking Up Steam California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond declared he’s running for governor, two men committed an Oakland carjacking in a just-carjacked car, and there’s an effort afoot to make a block of Hayes Street permanently car-free.
SF News Hayes Valley Residents Pushing Back Against Affordable Housing Development at Site of PROXY Proxy fight indeed, as between 50-75 units of affordable housing are slated to be built at Hayes Valley’s outdoor event and retail space PROXY, but now neighbors are fighting to retain the parcel as open space.
SF News Hayes Valley Neighbors Raised Alarms About Encampment Fires Months Prior to Construction Site Blaze The cause of Tuesday morning's four-alarm fire on Octavia Boulevard remains under investigation. But a neighborhood group is suggesting the city did not heed their warnings from two months ago about fires at homeless encampments in this very area.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire In Hayes Valley Destroys New Building Under Construction, Displaces Eight In Nearby Buildings A major blaze broke out Tuesday morning around 6 a.m. that sent flames into the sky on Octavia Boulevard, threatening neighboring buildings and disrupting the morning commute for some in San Francisco.
SF News Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF News Long-Stalled 555 Fulton Reportedly Sold To New Owner ‘Enthusiastic’ To Open Trader Joe’s’ The long-delayed Trader Joe’s at 555 Fulton was held up by the Mohammed Nuru scandal and the arrest of a Chinese real estate tycoon, but Supervisor Dean Preston’s office says the building is being sold to “a new owner enthusiastic about bringing in Trader Joe’s.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Team's New Hayes Valley Spot, Teakwood, Readies For Opening The team behind Burma Superstar and Burma Love is expanding once more, this time in Hayes Valley, in the Grove and Gough corner space formerly occupied by Anka, and before that Barcino, Boxing Room, and Citizen Cake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sons & Daughters Chef to Open Kiln In Former Cala Space In Hayes Valley One more prominent restaurant space that has lain dormant since the pandemic is getting a new tenant, and it's the sleek space that Mexico City chef Gabriela Camara renovated in 2015 to house her restaurant Cala.
SF News Billionaire 555 Fulton Developer Arrested In London On Mohammed Nuru Bribery Charges Mega-rich developer Zhang Li, accused of buttering up Mohammed Nuru with a $2,000 bottle of wine and luxury trips, was arrested in London and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for bribery.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
