SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Vegan Spot Baia, Which Took Over the Storied Former Jardiniere Space, Is Closing After Three and a Half Years A major piece of San Francisco restaurant real estate will be back in play again this year, as upscale vegan Italian spot Baia is closing its doors at the end of the month.
SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News That One Block of Hayes Street Will Remain Car-Free for Another Year, But With Scaled-Back Hours A very small car-free street plan just got smaller, as the SFMTA voted this week to keep one block of Hayes Street car-free on the weekends, but with much more limited car-free hours.
SF News Developer Says That Long-Stalled Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s Will Open By Next Spring While Trader Joe’s has not officially confirmed this, the developer who recently bought the property slated to become the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s is claiming the new grocery store at 555 Fulton will be open by June 2024.
SF News Just In Time For Spooky Season, Live Rabid Bat Found In Hayes Valley A live and rabies-positive bat was found and captured in Hayes Valley several weeks ago, and the health department wants anyone who may have had any contact with the animal to give them a call.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Permanent Car-Free Hayes Street Effort Picking Up Steam California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond declared he’s running for governor, two men committed an Oakland carjacking in a just-carjacked car, and there’s an effort afoot to make a block of Hayes Street permanently car-free.
SF News Hayes Valley Residents Pushing Back Against Affordable Housing Development at Site of PROXY Proxy fight indeed, as between 50-75 units of affordable housing are slated to be built at Hayes Valley’s outdoor event and retail space PROXY, but now neighbors are fighting to retain the parcel as open space.
SF News Hayes Valley Neighbors Raised Alarms About Encampment Fires Months Prior to Construction Site Blaze The cause of Tuesday morning's four-alarm fire on Octavia Boulevard remains under investigation. But a neighborhood group is suggesting the city did not heed their warnings from two months ago about fires at homeless encampments in this very area.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire In Hayes Valley Destroys New Building Under Construction, Displaces Eight In Nearby Buildings A major blaze broke out Tuesday morning around 6 a.m. that sent flames into the sky on Octavia Boulevard, threatening neighboring buildings and disrupting the morning commute for some in San Francisco.
SF News Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF News Long-Stalled 555 Fulton Reportedly Sold To New Owner ‘Enthusiastic’ To Open Trader Joe’s’ The long-delayed Trader Joe’s at 555 Fulton was held up by the Mohammed Nuru scandal and the arrest of a Chinese real estate tycoon, but Supervisor Dean Preston’s office says the building is being sold to “a new owner enthusiastic about bringing in Trader Joe’s.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Team's New Hayes Valley Spot, Teakwood, Readies For Opening The team behind Burma Superstar and Burma Love is expanding once more, this time in Hayes Valley, in the Grove and Gough corner space formerly occupied by Anka, and before that Barcino, Boxing Room, and Citizen Cake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sons & Daughters Chef to Open Kiln In Former Cala Space In Hayes Valley One more prominent restaurant space that has lain dormant since the pandemic is getting a new tenant, and it's the sleek space that Mexico City chef Gabriela Camara renovated in 2015 to house her restaurant Cala.
SF News Billionaire 555 Fulton Developer Arrested In London On Mohammed Nuru Bribery Charges Mega-rich developer Zhang Li, accused of buttering up Mohammed Nuru with a $2,000 bottle of wine and luxury trips, was arrested in London and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for bribery.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
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 Another Hayes Valley Retailer Is Closing Up Shop Over Rampant Thefts Another retail store owner has closed their doors in San Francisco and gone public with their complaints about "rampant organized theft," with generalized complaints about the city having descended into "chaos."
Business & Tech Developer Barreling Forward With $1 Billion Van Ness Office-Condo High-Rise, Despite Office Market Being in Toilet The 47-story development at 30 Van Ness is actually going to be called Hayes Point. And its developers are being called crazy for building office space in the current slump, but they’re rolling up the Brink's truck anyway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Love Is Expanding to Gough Street In Hayes Valley Burma Love, the offshoot of Burma Superstar with a lively location on Valencia Street, will be adding another location soon in the former Boxing Room/Barcino space in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Bay Area Chef and Food TV Personality Joey Altman Joins the Brixton Team In Opening Hazie's In Hayes Valley The restaurant space at the corner of Hayes and Octavia formerly occupied by brunch spot Stacks, at 501 Hayes Street, will come to life again this week as Hazie's, a new bar and restaurant from the team behind The Brixton.
SF News Vague New Retail Concept Involving Crytpo Bros and Merchandise Chosen By Committee Heads to Hayes Valley Something very odd is coming to Hayes Valley, which at least a few investors think could be some futuristic retail concept that's more of a co-op community than a traditional store.