Arts & Entertainment Local Nightclub Owners Make Noise At City Hall Over Shutdown Threats From New Condos Lucky 13 and the Elbo Room are currently endangered. Cafe Du Nord, The Lexington, Club Cocomo and others are already gone or counting down the days. Nightclub owners aren’t laying down anymore,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's And SoulCycle Are Both Coming To The Castro Clearing the final major hurdle of the Planning Commission, both the proposed Hamburger Mary's in the former Patio Cafe space (531 Castro) and a proposed location of popular spin class church (or whatever)
SF News New 5M Development At 5th And Mission Hires American Architect Kohn Peterson Fox, Designs Look Rad Look, you guys! Actual architecture! Forest City, the developer behind the huge new 5M mixed-use complex that's proposed for the block surrounding the Chronicle Building that we talked about last month, has just
SF News Chain Retail Rules For S.F. To Get More Strict A proposal before the Board of Supervisors, spearheaded by Eric Mar, could further complicate things for chain retailers seeking space in San Francisco. The new guidelines, which go to a vote next week,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Hamburger Mary's Will Go To Planning Vote In December The literally decade-long saga surrounding a single empty property in the Castro will enter its next and most certainly not final chapter later this fall when the Planning Commission will decide whether the
SF News San Francisco Mocked For Once Again Limiting Housing Development This is the headline from a Washington Post blog yesterday: "Voters in one of America’s most expensive cities just came up with another way to block new housing." As you may or
SF News New Ballot Initiative Could Stifle Airbnb In San Francisco A new ballot initiative hopes to limit Airbnb rentals to neighborhoods zoned for commercial use and provide incentives for people to rat out neighbors renting apartments in violation of the new regulations. The
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the Castro where
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chipotle's Bid To Move Into The Castro Gets A No From Planners Things aren't looking good for Chipotle, which wants to open its tenth S.F. location in the former Home restaurant space at Church and Market. Yesterday afternoon the Planning Department issued its weekly
SF News New CVS-Anchored Market-Noe Center Revealed Everyone wanted a Trader Joe's, but the Castro is instead getting a CVS in the long vacant Market-Noe Center (formerly home to Tower Records). This week, via the Planning Commission and Castro Biscuit,
SF News Scott Wiener Seeking to Make Environmental Review Process Easier For Developers On the Planning Commission agenda this week is the continuation of a somewhat controversial item introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this month that would limit the citizenry's ability to hold up development
Arts & Entertainment Planning Commission OKs West Coast's Largest Phallus The glorious, metal and glass Transbay Tower received final approval from the San Francisco Planning Commission on Thuesday, clearing one of the last major hurdles before crews can finally get to work erecting
SF News Transbay Tower Gets A New Crown, Plus 100% More Funicular San Francisco's soon-to-be-tallest building got a few design tweaks before it heads back to the Planning Commission for final approval next month. When last we checked in, the Planning Commission compromised with neighbors
SF News Planning Commission Says Yes to Tall Buildings!! We've made no secret here at SFist of our support for actual tall buildings in our fair city, where some dumb ordinance from the 80s created by people scared of shadows has kept
SF News Cow Hollow's Historic Metro Cinema To Become Equinox Gym A plan to convert Cow Hollow's historic Metro movie theater (2055 Union) to an Equinox gymnasium went before the Planning Commission yesterday, and SFist learns today that it was approved. Alas, another historic
SF News NIMBY Watch: Transbay Tower Impact Report to Be Debated Thursday Let us go on the record right now as saying We Like Tall Buildings. We do. We think this city would be all the prettier with a few more actually tall structures, and
SF News Power Exchange Moves Into Crash Club on Mason, Neighborhood Pissed Hold the phone! The infamous Power Exchange, after closing their Otis Street location and getting chased off of Gough Street with pitchforks, has moved into the Crash Club space at 34 Mason without
SF News Scenes from American Apparel Meeting at City Hall, 2/5 What with Bush leaving office and local ire having no direct target, layoffs continuing to abound, and the recession devolving into something worse, American Apparel setting up shop on Valencia Street created the
misc Hayes Valley, Maybe? So what can we look forward to at 55 Laguna? Plans for the property include a community center, retail space (specifically non-chain retail, as noted by CurbedSF), 428 units of affordable housing --
misc Starbucks -- Bringing People Together Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. Many
SF News Let's Talk About Parking Some More It's happening Monday, July 2, at SPUR's 312 Sutter Street headquarters from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Valet parking will be provided. Ha ha ha, just kidding! Here's some things that SPUR,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits --So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea
misc Of Human Bondage in the Mission There's a hitch in all of this in that there's really nothing anyone can do about it. It was a private sale so no public hearing was needed and as Kink.com doesn't
SF News Isn't It Ironic? Don't You Think? So last week the Gavster announced this big, huge plan to build more housing, even low-cost housing. The point being, of course, the more housing the better, especially more low-cost housing, because the
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two? Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting interest in housing
