SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fine Dining Spot for Dogs on Valencia Has $75 Tasting Menu, Generates Gentrification Outrage People are dogpiling on a new fine dining restaurant for dogs, as San Francisco once again out-San Franciscos itself with a stunning new breed of income inequality.
SF Politics San Francisco Officially Acquires Real Estate to Make 'Monster In the Mission' Project 100% Affordable Mayor London Breed’s office and the SF Board of Supervisors recently announced the completion of a deal between housing developer Crescent Heights and Maximus Real Estate Partners that will lead to an affordable housing project of 330 low-income units at 1979 Mission Street.
SF Politics SF Supes Reject CEQA Challenge to The Creamery's Move to the Mission, Upsetting Anti-Gentrification Activists A tech-famous coffeeshop that was the storied birthplace of Airbnb and Stripe, The Creamery, is likely getting to move ahead with its plans to relocate to 14th and Mission streets from its former digs in SoMa after months of pushback.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Fnnch Mural Painted Over at LGBT Center; Honey Bears Targeted With Graffiti Because of Association With Gentrification San Francisco street artist fnnch has attracted a tsunami of online anger and criticism in recent months, and even more of that exploded when he was confronted by one of his critics in a now widely seen Instagram video.
SF News Slain ‘Monster in the Mission’ Property Up for Sale, Local Nonprofit Interested in Buying The developer of the wildly unpopular proposed “Monster in the Mission” luxury condo and apartment project has given up the ghost, and a community group hopes to swoop in and build 100 percent affordable housing.
SF News Lucky 13 Survives a Little Longer, but Developer Wants to Triple the Apartment Complex The building owner starts still wants raze Lucky 13 and build an apartment complex, but instead of 33 units, now they want 90 units.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019 The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Ugliest Condo Buildings In San Francisco One thing that San Francisco is most known for is its timeless and gorgeous historic architecture. The Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic that pervades our fair city, with its bay windows, decorative cornices, and detailed
SF News CA Couple Moved To Portland, Vandals Respond With "Go Back To CA" Graffiti Jessica Faraday and Preston "I work for Adidas" Page did not receive a warm welcome from some new neighbors. KRON 4 reports (via Portland's KOIN) that the California-based pair moved to Portland, Oregon
Arts & Entertainment '94110', A Mission-Themed Web Series That Seems To Be An Art Piece, Debuts Pilot Remember when we caught wind of a proposed TV series a full two years ago called 94110, via a casting call for actors to play "six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving
SF News LA-Based AIDS Nonprofit Is Using SF As Example To Shut Down Housing Development In LA A much reviled figure in the worlds of adult entertainment and HIV/AIDS healthcare in California, Michael Weinstein of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is now catching plenty of heat in
SF News Mission Activists Oppose 'Tea Art' Cafe In Vacant Storefront As 'Destabilizing To Working-Class Communities' A cafe with designs to open for "tea, coffee, and snacks" in a Mission Street storefront near 24th Street that's been empty since 2015 is now in the crosshairs of at least one
SF News The Lower Haight Sees Gentrification Arrive Slowly, But Surely The Lower Haight is undergoing a new wave of change that perhaps began a couple years ago, or five years ago, or even ten years ago. But in comparison to similar neighborhoods around
SF News 'Native Son' Carl Nolte Weighs In On Whether San Francisco Has 'Lost Its Soul' Longtime "Native Son" Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte, who you might expect would be one of the first to decry the ways in which San Francisco has changed for the worse, penned a column
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prepare For A Revolt: Blue Bottle Possibly Taking Over Beloved Former Bean There Space In Lower Haight Many in the neighborhood wept and cried foul earlier this year when the Lower Haight's beloved, 21-year-old café Bean There was forced to shutter. The reason was a familiar one: The landlord, who
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rapper MC Zumbi Shoots Video For His Song 'Tech $' As His Family Moves Out Of Their House Oakland rapper MC Zumbi, a.k.a. Steven Gaines and part of hip hop group Zion I, cut a track earlier this year in which he raps about being a victim of gentrification
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Hall, The MOMA Of Corner Grocery Stores, Now Open At 16th And Valencia Caleb Pershan/SFist Kitty-corner to an actual corner store, Food Hall (3100 16th Street) has all the sodas and booze and snacks of a typical "bodega" or "convenience store." But it's the presentation,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Die Yuppie Scum' Spray Painted On Site Of Future Outer Sunset Brewpub Forthcoming Outer Sunset Brewpub Tagged With 'Die Yuppie Scum' Graffiti https://t.co/88g16UU4Iv by @yourprotagonist pic.twitter.com/nFui7ptEtg— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) June 16, 2016 Someone really doesn't like brewpubs. Or, perhaps, they
SF News Here's The Condo That Will Replace One Fire-Destroyed Building On Mission A site that has sat empty since a 2014 Mission Street fire destroyed local discount store Big House Inc. may soon be home to a mixed-use condo and retail space. SocketSite reports on
SF News Historic Gay Bars Cited As Possible Reason To Block Massive Mid-Market Development A massive, 12-story mixed-use development that would include 250 residences and 232 hotel rooms just ran into trouble, and could potentially be pushed back years, as a result of the efforts of one
SF News Ripe For Mockery Lyft Ad Changed To Gentrification Critique On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 It's so perfectly set up that it almost seems like Mission District-based Lyft is in
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Foolz ... Are Making Valencia Unchill' "F**k these foolz that are making Valencia Street unchill and destroying the Mission 4 every1 who lives there," sings Kevin Patrick, AKA Field Medic, in a scathing social critique that targets "these
SF News Planning Commission Approves Controversial, Massive Mid-Market Residential Development Known for its downtown office buildings from the towering 50 California to the Market Square/Twitter building, real estate investors the Shorenstein Organization received Planning Commission approval yesterday afternoon for their first residential
SF News Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter
SF News Pilot Tech Shuttle Program Has Become Permanent As Wired rightly puts it, "Few things have come to epitomize San Francisco gentrification anxiety more than private Silicon Valley shuttle buses," and today we can announce that all those hulking, white "Google
