SF News SoMa SRO Mosser Hotel Gets Rejected In Their Attempt to Convert the Place Into a Full Tourist Hotel It seems counterintuitive to scrap housing that people need in exchange for hotel rooms, especially when the SF tourism economy is struggling. But SoMa’s Mosser Hotel hoped to do just that, though the SF Planning Commission shot that idea down Thursday.
SF News City Hall Revises Now-Moribund Central SoMa Plan By Allowing More Housing and Much Less Office Space The Central SoMa area between the Moscone Center and the Giants' ballpark was supposed to boom thanks to an ambitious City Hall plan, but the pandemic made that go bust, so now officials are revising the plan with more of a focus on housing and retail.
SF News Vapor Room Owner Martin Olive Speaks After Being Shot Seven Times, Says He Did Not Know His Shooter Nearly two weeks after being shot on Ninth Street in front of his dispensary, Martin Olive is recovering well and giving interviews, and says he never met or interacted with the upstairs neighbor who tried to kill him.
SF News Medical Examiner IDs Alleged Gunman In Monday’s Shooting of SoMa Dispensary Owner The now-deceased suspect in Monday’s shooting of the Vapor Room dispensary owner has been identified as 35-year-old Cheasarack Chong, who was shot and killed by police after shooting the dispensary owner, and reportedly lived above the Vapor Room.
SF News After Being Shot Seven Times Monday Night, Vapor Room Dispensary Owner Conscious and Speaking Vapor Room dispensary owner Martin Olive was shot seven times in Monday night’s SoMa melee that led to a police stand-off and the fatal shooting of his alleged assailant, but a few accounts from his friends say Olive is speaking and “in good spirits.”
SF News Developers Swear They Will Finally Clean Up ‘SoMa Trash Lake’ After Years of Complaints For nearly three years, a vacant SoMa lot at Fifth and Clara streets has been accumulating water, garbage, and mosquitoes. Now three years and two lawsuits later, a new owner vows it should be cleaned up soon.
Business & Tech Now the Metreon Is Up For Sale Too, In Latest SF Real Estate Shocker Another signature San Francisco mall is up for sale in the Metreon, but in this case, the sale is not being forced by owners surrendering the property to a lender, and the place has a bustling 92% occupancy rate.
SF News Multiple SFPD Plainclothes Officers Shot at in SoMa, Suspect in Custody Several blocks of Market and Mission streets were roped off Thursday night, after a suspect opened fire on multiple plainclothes officers. No one was hit by any bullets, and the suspect was taken into custody.
Arts & Entertainment Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair Ropes In Brontez Purnell, More Bars Selling To-Go Alcohol, and a New Truck Stage You’re bound to have a ball at Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair, with more leather bars than ever selling to-go cocktails, Brontez Purnell headlining the main stage, and the former bar and now pop-up Truck rocking its own new disco/play space.
SF Politics Guy Who Bought Kamala Harris’s Old SoMa Condo Now Renting It Out on Airbnb The former South of Market home of presidential nominee Kamala Harris has now been transformed into a Kamala Harris-themed Airbnb, though it will cost you a minimum of $6,000 to stay there.
SF News Man Charged With Burglarizing FBI Truck In SF, Trading the Stolen Gear for $20 Bag of Meth A man who allegedly stole thousands of dollars of gear from an FBI truck may not have realized the value of the equipment, as his charging documents say he sold a $1,500 ballistics vest from that haul for a $20 bag of meth.
SF News Notorious Flooded Luxury Apartment High-Rise 33 Tehama Rebrands as 'Spera,' Claims New, Different Address Hoping to memory-hole the flooding drama at 33 Tehama, the luxury SoMa high-rise is suddenly rebranding itself as “Spera,” and while it is at the exact same location, it now claims to be located at 39 Tehama Street.
Business & Tech Sigh, Someone’s Trying to Do This NFT-Only Club and Workspace Thing Again, Calling It a ‘Crypto Sanctuary’ Despite the collapse of the so-called “NFT restaurant” that was supposed to come to Salesforce Transit Center, and the broader flame-out of the NFT and Web3 boondoggles, someone still thinks that an NFT-only members club in SoMa can appeal beyond a shrinking subset of crypto bros.
SF News Infamous Nordstrom Parking Lot Will Remain a Parking Lot Five More Years, City Hall Not Happy About It The notoriously rejected 27-story residential tower in a SoMa parking lot had its Plan B version approved, but now the developer is putting the project on ice, and a highly frustrated Planning Commission approved letting it remain a parking lot for another five years.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20 SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.
Business & Tech Yahoo, of All Companies, Is Scooping Up SF Office Space In a Big SoMa Sublease Deal Yahoo may be considered a dinosaur among tech firms, but they’re one of the few companies that’s buying SF office space instead of unloading it, and they just scooped up an available floor at Third and Folsom streets.
SF News Fire at SoMa Apartment High-Rise Leaves Hundreds Without Running Water or Electricity A Wednesday fire at the 40-story Paramount apartment tower at Mission and Third streets has left hundreds of tenants without electricity or running water, and very limited elevator service to navigate the building’s dozens of floors.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest In Late December Double-Stabbing in SoMa One man died and another woman was injured in a double-stabbing at around 5:30 a.m. on December 28 in SoMa. SFPD determined their suspect and arrested him last week, and he appears to have a history of armed robbery.
SF News Thursday Double-Stabbing In SoMa Leaves One Man Dead, Another Woman Injured SFPD is investigating an early Thursday morning stabbing at Mission and Washburn streets that left one man dead and another woman hospitalized.
SF News Sure Enough, Shoplifting Was Not the Reason For the Closure of Target at Folsom and 13th Streets When Target announced they were closing an SF store in SoMa, they blamed “theft and organized retail crime.” Uhh, turns out that Target had the least reported crime of any Target store in the entire Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment SF Approves Reborn Version of The Stud's Liquor License for Its New SoMa Location The Stud stepped forward toward getting a liquor license at their new Folsom near Seventh Street location Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors endorsed granting a liquor license to the reborn incarnation of The Stud.
SF News SFPD Chase of Murder Suspect Ends With Van Crashing at Third and Folsom Streets, During Moscone Center Conference The California Highway Patrol started a pursuit of a reported Oakland homicide suspect in Redwood City Thursday, and the chase didn’t end until the suspect crashed his white van into the wall of the Moscone Center parking lot.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink That Former Office Max at 14th and Harrison Could Become a Big-Box Liquor Store, Total Wine & More The Board of Supervisors apparently approved a liquor license transfer for the big-box booze retailer Total Wine & More to move into the now-vacated Office Max at 14th and Harrison Streets, though the state ABC has not approved the license yet.
Business & Tech Pinterest Offloading Yet Another Office Building In SoMa, This Time at Fourth And Brannan Streets Another office space haircut for a downtown SF tech firm, as Pinterest is bailing on 505 Brannan Street ten years before the lease is up, following rounds of layoffs in both December and February.
