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 IKEA Confirmed For Mid-Market Mall Project; Breed Takes Credit For Pitching the Idea IKEA is coming to downtown to SF next fall, to the long-empty 6x6 mall on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, and the plan is for an urban version of an IKEA store that's about 20-percent of the size of their regular, sprawling suburban complexes.
SF News Black Friday: Protest Planned For San Leandro Walmart In honor of Black Friday, and the horrifically-named Gray Thursday, workers will protest at Walmart stores around the country today. Rev. Ed Middelton, a pastor at First Community Church in Dallas, Texas, who