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.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
SF News Hayes Valley Retailer Who Closed Store In a Huff and Bemoaned a 'City of Chaos' Has Reopened Said Store It seems like only yesterday — actually three weeks ago — that the owner of trendy outerwear company Cotopaxi was proclaiming, as so many have, that San Francisco was unsalvageable and he was closing his Hayes Valley store for good due to rampant crime and "chaos."
SF News Another Hayes Valley Retailer Is Closing Up Shop Over Rampant Thefts Another retail store owner has closed their doors in San Francisco and gone public with their complaints about "rampant organized theft," with generalized complaints about the city having descended into "chaos."
Business & Tech Developer Barreling Forward With $1 Billion Van Ness Office-Condo High-Rise, Despite Office Market Being in Toilet The 47-story development at 30 Van Ness is actually going to be called Hayes Point. And its developers are being called crazy for building office space in the current slump, but they’re rolling up the Brink's truck anyway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Love Is Expanding to Gough Street In Hayes Valley Burma Love, the offshoot of Burma Superstar with a lively location on Valencia Street, will be adding another location soon in the former Boxing Room/Barcino space in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Bay Area Chef and Food TV Personality Joey Altman Joins the Brixton Team In Opening Hazie's In Hayes Valley The restaurant space at the corner of Hayes and Octavia formerly occupied by brunch spot Stacks, at 501 Hayes Street, will come to life again this week as Hazie's, a new bar and restaurant from the team behind The Brixton.
SF News Vague New Retail Concept Involving Crytpo Bros and Merchandise Chosen By Committee Heads to Hayes Valley Something very odd is coming to Hayes Valley, which at least a few investors think could be some futuristic retail concept that's more of a co-op community than a traditional store.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Flavored Popcorn Shop Debuts In Hayes Valley With Toppings Like Chorizo, Thai Curry, and Brisket A new snack stand called Fluff Nugget opens today at Proxy in Hayes Valley, taking over the space formerly occupied by Smitten Ice Cream, and serving all manner of tricked-out cones of flavored popcorn.
SF News [Update] Unicyclist Dies In Collision With Recology Truck In Hayes Valley A person on a motorized unicycle was killed Wednesday morning in a collision with a Recology truck at the notoriously dangerous intersection of Octavia and Oak streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Fantastique, a New Wine-Focused Restaurant With a Vinyl Soundtrack, Debuts In Hayes Valley A new wine- and sashimi-driven restaurant from the folks behind Palo Alto's Bird Dog has just opened its doors at the foot of Franklin Street in Hayes Valley, and it's called Le Fantastique.
SF News Man On Scooter Injured By Hit-and-Run Driver In Hayes Valley; Police Seek Suspect A man was injured while riding a moped/motorbike at the busy intersection of Hayes and Gough streets Monday afternoon — and the van that struck the scooter fled the scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much-Delayed Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Wins Approval at Last A Trader Joe's that's been in the planning stages pretty much forever for the new building at 555 Fulton just received its final approval from the SF Planning Commission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Team Behind Four Barrel and The Mill Set to Open New Bakery Called Loquat In 20th Century Cafe Space The owners of Four Barrel Coffee are expanding once more, and they're reportedly taking over the space being abandoned by 20th Century Cafe at Gough and Oak.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Moves Ahead, But Won't Open Until Late 2022 At Earliest The Trader Joe's that nearly everyone in the Hayes Valley environs is jonesing to shop at will not become a reality until late next year or even possibly early 2023, according to a newly released timeline from the company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prolific SF Restaurateur Opening Two New Restaurants In Pac Heights and Hayes Valley We have word of two new spots coming from his Back of the House Restaurant Group: The Tailor's Son on upper Fillmore, and a second location of The Bird in Hayes Valley.
