SF News Poll: One-Third of SF Small Businesses Hit By Crime Multiple Times Last Year A new poll from the Office of Small Business says that a third of SF small businesses were not just victims of crime, but victims of crime between two and ten times last year.
Business & Tech Small Businesses in CA Now Have Until January 13 to Apply For COVID Relief Grants The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) announced Monday that the deadline has been extended for small businesses to apply for economic relief grants of up to $25,000.
SF News Curbside Retail Begins in SF With Noted Lines at Sex Shops, Bookstores Curbside retail sales and pickup began in SF on Monday. But because of the tight restrictions placed on local retailers by the city, it was met with a muted drum roll and short, sparse lines — for some merchants, if any at all — across the seven-by-seven.
SF Politics San Francisco To Extend Interest-Free Loans To Small Businesses In Trouble During Pandemic The city of San Francisco is establishing a $10 million emergency relief fund that will extend interest-free loans of up to $50,000 to small businesses in crisis during the coronavirus shelter-in-place period.
SF News Photos: Mission District and Haight-Ashbury Shops Boarded Up — With Notes of Solidarity in Tow Non-essential businesses still sit vacant throughout San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, with many now boarded up, as if expecting a hurricane. But between the long stretches of plywood canvassing window panes across the city, irrefutable signs of unity and hope prevail.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Legacy Business' Support Program Facing Criticism As First Applicants Are Delayed Though Proposition J, legislation to financially assist so-called legacy businesses as selected by the Historic Preservation Commission, was approved at the ballot box last November, the program's implementation has been slow to arrive.
SF News San Francisco Gets 'F' Grade For Small Business 'Friendliness' Running a small business in the gilded city of San Francisco is a drag, or so says contractor-for-hire site Thumbtack, which just released a study asserting that because of roadblocks like "regulations," San
SF News Fight Over Mission Street Transit-Only Lanes Still Red-Hot The $3.8 million SFMTA project designating lanes on Mission Street bus- and taxi-only, a system used on Market Street and other thoroughfares, was enacted with the stated goal of reducing congestion and
