SF News Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
SF News Yet Another Safeway Site, In Mission/Bernal, Slated For Possible Redevelopment With Housing SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores.
SF News Ocean Beach Safeway Could Close For a While to Build Apartments on Top, Could Castro Safeway Be Next? The same developer that wants to build out the Fillmore Safeway into apartments now has the same idea for the Ocean Beach Safeway on LaPlaya Street, though in this case, that Safeway would reopen once construction was finished.
SF News Sunday Links: One Person Dies in Double Shooting in SF’s Mission District, Suspect Arrested The adult victim in last Saturday’s shooting near the Ocean Beach Safeway was shot through his window; tickets are now on sale for SF Sketchfest 2026; and two people were shot at 16th and Mission early Sunday, one person has died and a suspect arrested.
SF News Plan Finally Emerges For 1,800-Unit Development at Former Fillmore Safeway A developer is looking to build 3,500 housing units in San Francisco in the coming years, about half of which would be in a mixed-use development at the site of the former Safeway in the Fillmore.
SF News Shots Fired During Fight Near Outer Richmond Safeway, Five Injured, Including One Critically A little before 9 pm Saturday night, gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of people near the Safeway supermarket at Fulton and La Playa streets in SF’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. At least five people were injured, including one critically.
SF News Sunday Links: Northern California Safeway Workers Win Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike A man who jumped from a rope swing into the Russian River is presumed dead; the federal government has released over $6 billion in previously frozen education grants after weeks of backlash; and the Safeway strike was averted after a tentative deal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 20,000 Safeway Workers Could Strike Saturday if Deal Not Met A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate support services to immigrant families separated at the border; a 16-foot-wide Instagrammable ‘Heart SF’ sign has been unveiled downtown; and Northern California Safeway employees brace for a potential strike.
SF News Huge Safeway Strike Possibly Looming, Could Start as Early as Saturday Safeway workers all over Central and Northern California could go on strike as soon as Saturday morning, and every Safeway north of Bakersfield could potentially have a picket line if a deal is not reached with parent company Albertsons.
SF News Grocery Chain Smart & Final Reportedly Makes Bid for Shuttered Fillmore Safeway Space Smart & Final has made a pending and not-final offer to move into the vacated Fillmore Safeway grocery store, but Safeway’s not talking about whether they’ll take the deal, and there are whispers that other grocers may make their own bids too.
SF News Giant Safeway Sign at Church and Market Is Switching From Neon to LED This Year The 71-year-old, 85-foot-tall Safeway sign at Church and Market streets is slated for an overhaul this year, as Safeway plans to switch it from a traditional neon sign to a more modern LED light sign.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fillmore Safeway, Nearly Depleted of Goods, Set to Become Desolate Eyesore for Likely Years to Come With no definitive development plan on the table and zero city approvals, the Fillmore Safeway property is set to shutter on February 7 — if not sooner, because deep discounts have led to the store being almost emptied out of anything to sell.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Says SF Should Step In and Prevent Sale of Fillmore Safeway Onetime SF supervisor and Black community leader the Reverend Amos Brown is gunning for Safeway following the announcement of its planned closure date in the Fillmore, and its plans to sell its land there for an enormous profit.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close In Eight Weeks, Cites Shoplifting as Issue The beleaguered Safeway in the Fillmore, the planned closure of which was announced almost a year ago, now has a final closing date, and the company won't be negotiating this time.
SF Politics Dean Preston Makes End Run to Thwart Fillmore Safeway Development Plan In the waning days of his time on the Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Dean Preston made a final effort Tuesday to stop a plan to redevelop the Fillmore Safeway property and to make sure it becomes affordable housing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Arrested for Attack on Female Safeway Employee A female employee at the Ocean Beach Safeway was brutally attacked on Sunday; whooping cough is on the rise in the Bay Area; and Intel has brought back free coffee and tea for workers to "boost morale."
SF News Retail Theft Crackdown Targeting Safeway Stores, Walgreens In SF Yields 61 Arrests San Francisco police have just announced dozens of arrests of retail-theft suspects in what they're calling a "blitz" operation aimed at curbing shoplifting in the city from several stores where they say it is rampant.
SF Politics New California Bill Would Eliminate or Severely Curtail Self-Checkout, In Hopes of Reducing Shoplifting A SoCal state Senator is pushing a new bill that would eliminate self-checkout from many stores in California, under the reasoning that self-checkout is responsible for a whole lot of shoplifting, and to keep more human cashiers employed.
SF News Safeway Fires 22-Year Veteran Employee For Thwarting a Shoplifter, Then Denies Unemployment Claim A San Mateo Safeway may regret their decision to fire an employee who stopped a $500 shoplifting attempt, and then deny that employee unemployment benefits, because a state board ruled they have to pay the unemployment, and now a wrongful termination suit is looming.
SF News The Drive-Thru ATM at Diamond Heights Plaza is Gone, Because Someone Tried to Steal It A recent attempt to rip the ATM out of the parking lot at the Diamond Heights Safeway was unsuccessful, but the thieves damaged the machine so badly it had to be removed. Yet Bank of America insists they will replace the ATM.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fillmore Safeway Delays Closing Until 2025 Responding to outcry from the community and clearly some pressure from the city, Safeway now says it will keep its Fillmore District store open until early next year (at least).
SF News Can City Hall Get Safeway to Stick Around Longer In the Fillmore? They're Going to Try As expected, SF Supervisor Dean Preston made a move at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting to begin a process of cajoling Safeway not to shutter its 40-year-old grocery store in the Fillmore District, at least not yet.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested After Alleged Armed Robbery at Santa Rosa Safeway, High-Speed Chase Down 101 Three men in their 20s surrendered to police after leading them on a high-speed chase for miles down Highway 101 Thursday night, following an alleged armed robbery at a Safeway store in Santa
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed In Castro Safeway Parking Lot A fatal stabbing occurred Tuesday evening in the notoriously sketchy parking lot of the Castro Safeway shopping plaza.
