SF News Trash Fire Breaks Out at Abandoned Potrero Hill Apartment Building, One Person Detained A troubled, empty Potrero Hill apartment complex known for attracting squatters was hit by a trash fire Sunday afternoon, and one person has been detained, apparently on suspicion of setting the blaze.
SF News Famed SF Flower Mart Closing on Tuesday, Though Moving to Potrero Hill a Week Later The 112-year-old, way-too-early in the morning institution known as the SF Flower Mart will have its final day of operation at its longtime SoMa location on Thursday. But it will reopen at a new Potrero Hill location just a week later.
SF News Ruptured Gas Line Prompts Evacuation of Four Buildings In SF's Mission District After a private contractor reportedly ruptured a gas main in the vicinity of 24th and Hampshire streets in San Francisco, four buildings have had to be evacuated and Muni service near Potrero Avenue and SF General has been disrupted.
SF News Tenants Set to Be Evicted En Masse at Potrero Hill Housing Complex Where Manager Was Illegally Collecting Rent Even though they’d been paying rent, tenants of some 40 units at Potrero Terrace-Annex are facing eviction proceedings, because they’d been paying rent to a rogue manager who was allegedly just pocketing the money.
Business & Tech Amazon Submits Their Plans for That Mission Bay Delivery Warehouse They Had to Put On Ice The SF Board of Supervisors put Amazon’s proposed Mission Bay “fulfillment center” in a two-year time-out, but that pause is now finished, and Amazon just unboxed their plans for the facility at Seventh and Berry streets.
SF News Ambitious Potrero Bus Yard Affordable Housing Project Might Get Slashed From 500 Units to 100 Units As the SFMTA proceeds with their grand plan to modernize the 109-year-old Potrero Yard bus facility and build 500 units of affordable housing on top of it, we receive word that they may reduce that affordable housing component to barely 100 units.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sunday Homicide Investigated In Potrero Hill A murder investigation has begun after a woman was found dead on Dakota Street in SF's Potrero Hill; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is touting a recent turnaround of crime statistics; and coyote pupping season has begun in the Presidio.
SF News Separate Shootings In SF Hospitalized Two People on Friday Night Police are investigating two unrelated shootings that took place in Cow Hollow and Potrero Hill Friday night, but they haven't arrested any suspects yet.
SF News SF Delivery Drivers Targeted In Crimes Twice In Two Days A Friday carjacking of a delivery driver in SoMa was followed by a Saturday shooting of an Amazon driver in Potrero Hill, making a rough weekend for delivery drivers in San Francisco.
SF News Pursuit of Carjacking Suspect Ends In Crash at 16th and Potrero, Injuring Five A police pursuit of a carjacking suspect Tuesday morning ended in a violent crash into a bus stop outside the Potrero Center shopping area at 16th Street and Potrero Avenue, leaving five people seriously injured and businesses damaged.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: A Dozen Buses Go Up In Flames In Potrero Hill 12 minibuses went up in flames Sunday night underneath the I-280 freeway in Potrero Hill; a protest is happening in Oakland over DA Pamela Price's handling of the Jasper Wu shooting case; and a CHP officer was struck and injured by a vehicle in Concord.
SF News Weekend Homicide In SF's Potrero Hill Happens Amid a Barrage of Gunfire One man was killed by gunfire in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood on Saturday night, in the same Potrero Annex complex where a fire claimed one life last week — and a barrage of bullets was later found having hit homes and vehicles.
SF News Potrero Hill Apartment Fire Leaves One Dead, Three Rescued A fire Wednesday morning in Potrero Hill has ended tragically, with one adult victim dead, and firefighters say they had significant challenges fighting the blaze.
SF News Fatal Hit-And-Run After Breakfast of Champions Party Leaves One Woman Dead, Another Man Injured The tail-end of the New Year’s Day block party It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions was marred by terrible tragedy, as two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver who’s still at large, and one of those victims died at the hospital.
SF News 54-Year-Old Suspect In Potrero Homicide Arrested In Yolo County A man suspected in an early July homicide in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood has been located and arrested six weeks later.
SF News Shootout In Potrero Hill Leaves Two Injured, Multiple Homes Riddled With Bullets An apparent shootout early Monday morning left four residential buildings on San Bruno Avenue riddled with bullet holes, and left two individuals with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Shooting Claims One Life In Potrero Hill A fatal shooting in Potrero Hill on Saturday was SF's 26th homicide of 2022, kids have been vandalizing schools in Richmond on their summer break, and SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey has COVID.
SF News $2 Billion Potrero Power Station Redevelopment Project Finally Gets Underway Hoping to transform “an industrial wasteland” into the “next hot neighborhood of San Francisco,” there’s a $2 billion redevelopment underway at the Potrero Power Plant by Pier 70, with housing, hotels, hotels and office space.
SF News Pair of Oakland Teens, Ages 14 and 16, Arrested for SF Carjackings Targeting Asian Victims San Francisco police chased and then arrested a pair of juveniles who were allegedly part of a quartet of carjackers who targeted two Asian male victims in San Francisco on Monday afternoon.
SF Politics SF Neighbors Who Wanted Amazon Hub Site to Remain Industrial Now Not Happy That It's Remaining Industrial Recology wanted to build housing on a site that was formerly home to 300 garbage trucks, but neighbors pushed back. Now Amazon wants to keep things industrial, and still, pushback.
SF News Shootings in the Tenderloin and Potrero Leave One Dead, Three Injured A pair of separate weekend shootings in San Francisco left three people injured and one female victim dead.
SF News Potrero Avenue Shooting Victim Identified as Father of Three Who Helped U.S. Army in Afghanistan A November armed robbery took the life of a man now identified as Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, the sole provider for three young children, who’d assisted the U.S. in the Afghanistan war.
Business & Tech Amazon Reveals More About Its Planned Potrero Warehouse on Former Recology Site Amazon had a virtual public meeting Monday to discuss its plans to build a three-story warehouse and delivery hub at 7th and Berry streets, at the edge of Potrero Hill and the Design District, across the tracks from the foot of Mission Creek.
Arts & Entertainment Sci-Fi Author Frank Herbert Lived in This Potrero Hill House When He Wrote ‘Dune’ For $1.6 million, you can own the house where Frank Herbert wrote the 1965 novel ‘Dune,’ which has yet another Hollywood remake of it opening today.
SF News Two Women and a Dog Die After Car Plunges Off Cliff in Potrero Hill One person was injured and two women and a dog were killed Tuesday evening after an SUV plummeted off of a 200-foot cliff in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.