SF News Futuristic, Tiny-Room Capsule Hotel Coming To Mid-Market As Mid-Market continues marching towards a cleaner, less stabby future, the next big addition to join the soon-to-be renovated Renoir Hotel will be a Tokyo-style capsule hotel with 200 rooms averaging around 170
SF News Market Street Place Finally Moving Forward, Dreams Of Going Upscale That hulking, empty lot on Mid-Market is finally set to rise into a more retail-friendly $150 million, 250,000-square-foot urban mall. When last we checked in at the lot, which sits on the
SF News Twitter To Create Learning Center For Homeless Families Twitter announced today, by way of the Chronicle, that the company will partner with Compass Family Services to create the "Twitter Neighborhood Nest" — a technology learning center for homeless families to learn basic
SF News NEMA 2.0 Coming To Van Ness & Market The rapidly changing stretch of MidMarket will soon get another infusion of developer money and marketing materials: as The Chronicle reports, the owners of the Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness
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SF News Two Big New Condo Buildings Headed To Market & Sixth A 186-unit condo building has been proposed for 1028 Market Street, the site currently occupied by the long-shuttered Hollywood Billiards, and another 301-unit building is headed in next door at 1066 Market Street.
Arts & Entertainment Win A Brand New Apartment in Mid-Market This post is brought to you by AVA 55 Ninth. AVA 55 Ninth, a brand new apartment community in San Francisco’s Mid-Market, is giving away an apartment that can be yours. For
Arts & Entertainment Win A Brand New Apartment in Mid-Market This post is brought to you by AVA 55 Ninth. AVA 55 Ninth, a brand new apartment community in San Francisco’s Mid-Market, is giving away an apartment that can be yours. For
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crestfallen Cafe Responds To SFist's Criticism See, now that's funny. Almost. Two-year-old Mid-Market cafe and eatery Machine — who, last week, poked fun at area addicts and homeless, among other characters in the changing neighborhood — responded to SFist's criticism via
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Your Future Housing Mid-Market residential growth in action, shot by Gerard Livernois.
SF News Holy God, 950-974 Market Street Is Going To Be Huge A development project that kind of dropped off our radar reappears via some new renderings today, via Curbed, and dear god it's another enormous hotel and arts center that will help to completely
Arts & Entertainment Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Captures The Faces Behind Three Changing S.F. Neighborhoods SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Mid-Market (two of them real, the latter freshly conceived and coined) received heaps of ink over the last year. Some good, some bad, most of it controversial in one
SF News Kaplan's, The Army-Navy Store On Mid-Market, Closing After 74 Years In another sign of Mid-Market's continued comeuppance, Kaplan's, the 74-year-old army-navy store between 6th and 7th, is closing to make way for a 9-story hotel. The Kaplan family has struck a deal to
SF News Luxury Mid-Market Building Open House Featured Pool Mermaids, Dancing Monkeys, Plant People NEMA, mid-Market's most unabashedly homogenous new apartment building held an open house Thursday night for future residents, potential lessees, and local gentrification watchblogs in search of Instagram fodder. While the idea of a
SF News 'Upscale, Classy, Clean' People Wanted For Mid-Market Apartment Building Commercial Nema, the luxury high rise building currently leasing $2,500 studios, the same one with its very own parody Twitter account and grating neighborhood name, has put out a casting call for "lifestyle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef Masters' Contender Suvir Saran To Open Mid-Market Restaurant Suvir Saran, who was the first chef in the U.S. to get a Michelin star for an Indian restaurant, has inked a deal for a huge new restaurant space in the base
SF News Twitter IPO, Among Other Things, To Spur 'Hyper Gentrification' Many San Franciscans who did not used to be millionaires, who perhaps even couch-surfed in your living room once in the last decade, are going to become suddenly wealthy if they happen to
SF News Cookie Monster Sets Fire to $1,400 Worth Of Baked Goods A 29-year-old woman became some kind of monster earlier this week when she walked into a Walgreens store at Market and Third Streets, sprayed lighter fluid all over an aisle full of cookies
SF News Market Street Chess Players Relocated; Effort Launched to Create Permanent Tables in Civic Center Here's an update in the story about the elderly guys who got evicted from their sidewalk chess-playing area on Market between 5th and 6th: District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim's office had been unaware
SF News Twitter In Talks For Second Mid-Market Office Ahead of their highly anticipated and high-profile IPO, Twitter is reportedly looking to more than double their square footage in mid-Market with a second office right around the corner from their current digs
SF News SFPD Shuts Down Sidewalk Chess Games Well, this is a pathetic development in the War on Fun: The SFPD has confiscated all the game tables, chairs, and chess boards that have been used for at least three decades for
Arts & Entertainment What Will Become of the Historic, Quite Possibly Haunted, Market Street Cinema? Back in February, longtime strip joint Market Street Cinema (1077 Market Street) known for its ever-changing marquee messaging, Thanksgiving turkey drives, military discounts, and deals for conventioneers shut its doors. Was it just
SF News Confirmed: Kelly Wearstler Designing Mid-Market Hotel With Rooftop Bar The Renoir Hotel at 7th and Market which over the last year was home to A Temporary Offering, which included the cool but temporary Rio Grande bar from the Trick Dog team that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink C.W. Nevius: The Chronicle's Latest Subway Shilling Columnist We've known for quite some time now that former Da Mayor, well-compensated political/sandwich lobbyist and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Willie Brown has been suspiciously vocal about his love for Subway sandwiches. Now
SF News Mid-Market: Muni Bus Hits Pedestrian Last night at the intersection of Sixth and Market streets in San Francisco, a Muni bus smacked a pedestrian. The incident happened at around 6:15 p.m. The pedestrian was immediately whisked
