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.
SF Politics Will the Pandemic Retail Apocalypse Push SF Neighborhoods to Ease Formula Retail Rules? The pandemic and recession may be reason enough to ease at least some of the restrictions that have kept chain stores of all kinds from populating empty retail spaces, now that neighborhoods like Hayes Valley are looking pretty grim.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Gets Chain-Store Exemption To Move Into Hayes Valley It'll probably be two years before the store opens, but Hayes Valley is finally going to get a grocery store as Trader Joe's won its formula-retail exemption from the Board of Supervisors this week to move into 555 Fulton.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Might Actually Happen Trader Joe's has cleared a hurdle to potentially move into the ground-floor space at the new 555 Fulton complex in Hayes Valley — bringing a much-needed grocery store to the neighborhood.
SF News City To Ban Vehicle Traffic On Octavia Next To Patricia's Green One half-block of Octavia Boulevard is going to become a pedestrian- and bike-only zone, once and for all cutting off the busy freeway-connected "boulevard" portion of Octavia from the quieter Octavia Street that continues north.
SF News Amid Multiple Closures, Hayes Valley's Well-Loved Retail Scene Seems To Be Suffering With the closure of Will Leather Goods, it seems like stores have only been closing in the neighborhood for months.
Arts & Entertainment Female Buddha Sculpture On Its Way To Patricia's Green In Hayes Valley A sculpture of a robot-like female Buddha called Tara Mechani, by artist Dana Albany, will soon take the spot being vacated by that cube tree sculpture in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Arrives In Hayes Valley October 31 We’re excited to open our new shop in Hayes Valley real soon! Just a few more finishing touches before we start serving bagels and @stumptowncoffee at 537 Octavia St. A post shared
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Debuts In Hayes Valley This Week, Will Donate To Fire Victims The second SF location of Portland-based Salt & Straw ice cream debuts Friday with a particularly frightful, if inventive, list of Halloween-season flavors, and with a charitable focus in light of the fires
Arts & Entertainment 'I Am Not Your Negro', 'The Big Sick' Lead PROXY SF's Outdoor Movie Night The second annual PROXY and HERE FOR NOW Fall Film Festival in Hayes Valley is set to kick off this Friday, and they just released their full lineup of films. Whereas many outdoor
SF News SF Resident Slain In Hayes Valley An evening attack in Hayes Valley left a San Francisco resident dead Thursday night, and sent San Francisco's homicide count for 2017 to 39. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael