SF News Nearly All Of The Affordable Housing Budget For The Mission To Be Spent On One Building Just to illustrate the difficult economics of building affordable housing in a time of great need for it, Mission Local is reporting that nearly all of the budget from an affordable housing bond
SF News SFPD Seeks Video Of Naked Man Who Allegedly Attacked Officer During 25th Street Arrest A naked man who allegedly attacked a police officer remains behind bars today, as investigators seek video taken by members of the public who witnessed the incident. San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer
SF News Campos Promises To Rid Mission District Of Homeless Encampments Within 4 Months Following statements last week by the Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing indicating that officials intend to remove all homeless encampments within the city once and for all, we now get confirmation that
SF News Neighbors Put Parking Over Housing In Fight Against 6-Story Mission Development The latest housing development to incur the wrath of neighbors is proposed for Cesar Chavez near Guerrero Street. Mission Local reports that the six-story building would replace what is now a one-story office
SF News Facing Loss Of Lease, Doc's Clock To Move Down The Street When news broke earlier this year that Doc's Clock would be forced to close following a decision by the new building owner not to renew the bar's lease in 2017, devotees of the
SF News Turn This Nine-Bedroom Dolores Street Home Into An Ersatz Hotel, Says Broker On Craigslist "Dolores Park, Whole Foods... everything's around here," says real estate Broker Bill Harkins as he introduces possible tenants to 283 Dolores Street in a video tour of the space. But what's going on
SF News Early Evening Clarion Alley Stabbing Leaves Man In Critical Condition A stabbing last night at a popular tourist destination has left one man in critical condition. The Chronicle reports that this all went down at the intersection of Mission Street and Clarion Alley
SF News Man With 'Numerous' Outstanding Warrants Arrested In Mission District Pokemon Go Theft The suspect in a August 4 strong arm robbery of a Pokemon Go player is a wanted man in three other cities, police announced Wednesday night. According to San Francisco Police Department Spokesperson
SF News SFMTA Proposes Revoking Some Mission Street Safety Improvements Following Merchant Complaints The months-long effort from a vocal contingent of merchants and Supervisor David Campos to undo the recent safety and Muni-focused Mission Street changes has borne fruit, as SFMTA officials yesterday announced that they
SF News Campos Revives Controversial 'Mission Moratorium' Proposal In Scaled-Back Form You haven't forgotten about the Mission Moratorium, have you? Officially known as Proposition I, the failed measure sought to block construction of all housing in the Mission District for two years that wasn't
SF News Anti-Tech Flyers Condemn Proposed Valencia Street Condos Anti-tech/gentrification posters now flying in front of #Zeitgeist #RealestateSF https://t.co/0vsHp5Rr7a pic.twitter.com/zMm9HKVTSG— SocketSite (@SocketSite) August 2, 2016 Flyers posted outside of Mission bar Zeitgeist remind us that
SF News New BART Station Proposed For 30th And Mission District 9 Board of Supervisors candidate Joshua Arce held a press conference this morning to announce plans to build a new BART Station at 30th and Mission Street. And, distinguishing this from just
SF News Exquisite Art Deco Building On Valencia Now On The Market Built for the Independent Order of Foresters, a fraternal society a la the Odd Fellows or Free Masons, 170 Valencia Street was designed by architect Harold Stoner and completed in 1930. Just look
SF News Protesters Disrupt SoMa Office Of Man Evicting School Teacher If you're going to disrupt where we live, we're going to disrupt where you work. That seemed to be the message of protesters gathered outside the Bryant Street office of film company Mubi
SF News After Mission Fires Displace 200, Supervisor Campos Stokes Fears Of Arson 161701875, WF, WORKING FIRE, 4TH ALARM, 3312 MISSION ST, SF, pic.twitter.com/OGpSEDeyOk— SF Firefighters 798 (@SFFFLocal798) June 18, 2016 After a devastating fire at Mission and 29th Streets forced out 58
SF News Aerial Footage Of Mission Street Fire Destruction Captured By Drone The five-alarm fire that burned through upwards of six buildings on Mission and 29th Street has long been extinguished, but the damage to persons and property is far from resolved. Fifty-eight people were
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Techies Heart Queers I #love this response to the #antitech graffiti that was trying to spread hate in #SF #MissionDistrict pic.twitter.com/jvSiw7StMV— Eric Zandona (@EricZ_FamilyMan) June 23, 2016 A number of stenciled tags
SF News Five-Story, 50-Unit Residential Building Proposed For Valencia Near 14th Getting anything built in the Mission District is very challenging! For evidence of that, here's a fun example from last year, or the story of some more recent but long-delayed movement on the
SF News Mission Street Transit-Only Lane Meeting Devolves Into Shouting Match Originally 50 chairs set out, now doubled.Standing room only, 150+ @sfmta_muni meeting at Mission Cultural Ctr. pic.twitter.com/JEKj5uhdOZ— LolaLolaLola (@Lola_Casanova) June 21, 2016 As is becoming the norm
Arts & Entertainment More Than 20 Years Of Clarion Alley Murals Now Available In Online Archive In 1992, Mission District artists Aaron Noble and Rigo 23 were residents on Clarion Alley, the 15-foot wide, 560-foot-long throughway running between Mission and Valencia Streets (between 17th and 18th Streets). They didn't
SF News Despite Safety Gains, Effort To Remove Mission Transit Lane Continues Despite evidence that the Mission Street transit-only lanes have drastically reduced collisions, and the dearth of evidence that they have negatively impacted merchants, Supervisor David Campos and SFMTA's Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin
Arts & Entertainment For Brava's Long-Planned Expansion, A Crowdfunding Campaign And Targeted Opening Though the profitability/profligacy of Super Bowl 50 is still the subject of debate, the event did right by one set of local artists in the form a of a $200,000 grant
SF News 'Beast On Bryant' Approved By Planning Commission, Clearing Way For 335 New Units A massive Mission District housing development was approved last night by the Planning Commission, bringing the contentious project one crucial step closer to completion. Nicknamed the "Beast on Bryant" by those opposed to
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Who Needs A Truck When You Have Duct Tape? This car has ALL the options. https://t.co/nYkzCiVHFD pic.twitter.com/HKxzNb6F05— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) May 31, 2016 We've all been there, right? You have something large to move, but
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Carnaval Takes Over The Mission For Two Days Of Dancing Once again this Memorial Day Weekend, the annual two-day festival known as Carnaval marched, samba'd, salsa'd, and otherwise danced its way through the Mission district, both Saturday and Sunday. SF's version of Carnaval,