SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Retail Vacancies Hit a New All-Time High (Again) Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk over their canceled Twitter/X deal; we now know the identity of the Calistoga police officer who ran over a pedestrian with a police truck; and San Francisco retail vacancies just hit a new record high.
Business & Tech Nintendo Announces They’re Opening a Store in SF’s Union Square, Only Their Second Store in the US Mario, Luigi, and Pokémon are swooping in to hopefully save San Francisco’s Union Square, as the video game giant Nintendo just announced they’re taking over one of the many vacant retail spots in the beleaguered shopping district sometime in 2025.
SF News Are Commercial Landlords and Ridiculous Rents to Blame for SF’s Retail and Restaurant Troubles? Landlords expecting that another boom time is just around the corner, ignoring the fact that retail has been struggling since before the pandemic and that restaurants are struggling across the city, may shoulder much of the blame for the impossible economics of managing small businesses in SF.
SF Politics Supervisors Relax Zoning Laws In Union Square and Downtown In Hopes of Filling Vacancies City Hall’s answer to the Union Square retail exodus is to bring in new things that aren’t retail, and the Board of Supervisors just voted unanimously Tuesday to loosen zoning laws on Union Square and downtown commercial conversions.
SF Politics What You Need To Know About Prop D, the Retail Vacancy Tax There are several local ballot propositions you'll be voting on today if you still do things the old fashioned way and go to an actual polling place, and perhaps none of them is more significant than Prop D.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Create 12 New Commercial Districts Ahead of Ballot Vote on Retail Vacancy Tax In an effort to curb the trend of landlords leaving retail spaces vacant, the SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish a dozen new Neighborhood Commercial Districts (NCDs) that will fall under a new vacancy tax law that's on March primary ballot going before voters.
SF Politics Vacancy Tax Passes Board of Supervisors, Will Appear on March Ballot Landlords will get charged by the square foot for keeping spots empty, if voters approve the Storefront Vacancy Tax in the March 2020 election.
