SF News Two Suspects Charged In Smash-and-Grab Involving Car at Union Square Dior Store The pair of suspects arrested in connection with last week's brazen smash-and-grab robbery at the Christian Dior store in Union Square — a robbery that involved ramming through the front gates and door of the store with a car — have now been charged.
SF News Union Square Dior Store Rammed With Car In Burglary Heist, at Least Two Arrested A brazen Thursday morning smash-and-grab at the Union Square Dior store was heavy on the smash, as burglars rammed a car into the store and stole a reported $270,000 in merchandise — but one of the getaway cars then crashed and the suspects in it were arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Tyler Florence Will Be Reviving Those Two Cafes On Either Side of Union Square The cafe spaces on either side of Union Square will almost surely be seeing some new life soon, and celebrity chef Tyler Florence is behind the project.
SF News Meet the First 17 Pop-Ups That the City Will Pay to Live Rent-Free Downtown In Revitalization Effort We learned in April that the city was offering to pay pop-ups as much as $8,000 to occupy vacant retail spaces downtown. We now know the first batch will include Devil’s Teeth Bakery, KALW, and a flea market called Sucka Flea.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Corzetti, a New Italian Spot From Adriano Paganini, Comes to Hotel G In Union Square A new Italian restaurant from the restaurant group behind hit spots like Beretta, A Mano, and The Tailor's Son, called Corzetti, has taken over the space at the corner of Geary and Mason, in the rebranded Hotel G.
SF News Gump’s Store Owner Slams SF In Open Letter Complaining About Street Conditions, Remote Work The current owner of longtime Union Square retail emporium Gump's took out a full-page ad in Sunday’s Chronicle, an open letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor Breed, and the SF Board of Supervisors about the evils of remote work and the conditions of SF streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Japanese-Peruvian Rooftop Restaurant, Chotto Matte, Set to Open Next Month In Union Square It's been two years since we first learned that high-end Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Chotto Matte, which boasts other locations in Doha, London, and Miami, was coming to a new rooftop space in Union Square.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF News Armed Robbers Stole an Estimated $48,000 of Merchandise From Union Square Gucci Store Monday A group of four to six suspects, reportedly with guns, pulled another Union Square heist at the Gucci store at Stockton Street and Maiden Lane Monday, and the suspects are still at large after police lost them in a chase.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Scoffs at ‘Good Morning America’ For Saying It Was Too Dangerous To Shoot A Segment at Union Square SF Mayor London Breed has some words for a 'Good Morning America' reporter who claimed it was “simply too dangerous” to shoot a segment in Union Square, even though they clearly shot the segment anyway.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AT&T Closing Its Flagship Union Square Store MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pissed off the city of Oakland with inaccurate remarks, the SF Gay Softball League is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and yet another Union Square flagship store is closing.
SF Politics Supervisors Relax Zoning Laws In Union Square and Downtown In Hopes of Filling Vacancies City Hall’s answer to the Union Square retail exodus is to bring in new things that aren’t retail, and the Board of Supervisors just voted unanimously Tuesday to loosen zoning laws on Union Square and downtown commercial conversions.
Business & Tech Hotel Expert: Hilton Owner's Declaration on Loan Might Just Be Negotiating Tactic It was one of the biggest local stories of the week, but is the owner of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels just negotiating with its bank by publicly saying they're defaulting on their loan?
SF News One Block of Taylor Street In Tenderloin Shut Down Sunday Amid Standoff With Armed Woman In Hotel A suspect who was threatening neighbors in a Tenderloin/Union Square hotel with a knife caused a block of Taylor Street to be cordoned off by the SFPD for several hours on Sunday.
Business & Tech Owner of SF's Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender Another bit of bad news for downtown San Francisco arrived Monday morning with the revelation that the investment firm that owns the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels is walking away from its debts and giving up hope on a return of SF's convention market.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lori’s Diner Has Finally Reopened Its Flagship Union Square Restaurant On Sutter Street It’s been more than three years since the one remaining Lori's Diner has served its all-day breakfast and club sandwiches, but the retro tourist trap reopened this week, and yes there is still a 1959 Ford Edsel in the dining room.
SF News Old Navy Flagship Store on Market Street Joins SF Retail Exodus The Old Navy flagship store on Market Street at Fourth, which has been in that location since the 1990s, will close on July 1, adding to the deepening retail exodus crisis on mid-Market and in Union Square.
SF News T-Mobile Flagship at Market and Stockton Becomes 12th Union Square Store to Close/Announce Closure Since November The big, two-level T-Mobile store in what was formerly the Apple Store at the foot of Stockton Street in San Francisco has just abruptly closed, creating the next in a mounting list of vacancies in Union Square and the downtown core.
SF News Ross Dress For Less Wants to Take Over the Saks Off Fifth Location at Fifth and Market Street There’s already a Ross Dress for Less at Fourth and Market Streets, and now there may be another just one block away at Fifth and Market Streets, though it’s unclear if Ross is adding a new store or just moving.
SF News Anthropologie on Market Street Set to Close In May; Also, Downtown Office Depot Two more major retail closures are hitting downtown, one of them sort of predictable and the other not.
SF News One Union Square Smash-and-Grabber Sentenced To Three Years In Prison, In Harshest Sentence Yet One of the many who participated in the infamous November 2021 Union Square smash-and-grab spree has reportedly received a three-year prison sentence, larger than the other sentences by magnitudes, but that’s likely because the suspect busted off his ankle monitor and committed more burglaries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smart-Alecky ‘Vegan McDonald’s’ Knock-Off Opens in Union Square, Right Across From Real McDonald’s Saturday saw the San Francisco opening of the up-an-coming plant-based fast-food chain Mr. Charlie’s, whose menu items and promotions clown on Ronald McDonald and the broader McDonald’s franchise.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens On Ice Returns to the Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Thursday Night The Union Square Holiday Ice Rink is lacing ‘em up for the 13th annual Drag Queens on Ice Thursday night, as Donna Sachet and seven dazzling drag queens put on their slay bells for the family-friendly show.
SF News Almost $180K Worth of Camera Gear Stolen From Store Close to SF's Union Square Despite this year's uptick in police presence in Union Square, a quick group of thieves managed to raid a high-end store in downtown San Francisco Saturday afternoon, leaving the camera shop Leica with $20K in damages and without $178K worth of products.
Arts & Entertainment Already?!? Union Square Macy’s Tree Was Quietly Lit Wednesday Night for the Holidays A day-after-Thanksgiving tradition returned about two-and-a-half weeks early this year, as the Macy’s Great Tree was unexpectedly lit up Wednesday night, and organizers insist there is “no official tree lighting ceremony this year.”
