SF News Supervisors Lift Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness, Add the Fillmore Safeway Property to That Exemption Too Big-chain formula retail stores might soon be welcome again on Van Ness Avenue, plus there’s now an added a carve-out to include the shuttered Fillmore Safeway too, after the SF Board of Supervisors eliminated these formula retail restrictions.
SF News The Removal of the Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness Just Got One Step Closer to Reality SF’s formula retail ban might be removed from a 23-block stretch of Van Ness Avenue, as the SF Planning Commission just unanimously passed a recommendation to exempt Van Ness from limits on large chain stores.
SF News One Month In, SFMTA Says Van Ness BRT Slashing Trip Times By Up To 35% Was it worth many years of construction and hassle? The SFMTA has the early numbers on the new Van Ness bus lanes, and says they’re cutting down trip times and leading to a boom in 49-Van Ness ridership.
SF News Van Ness BRT Will Indeed Be Running April 1, After Years as a Running Joke A weary San Francisco has learned to roll its eyes at any announcement of progress on the Van Ness bus lane construction project, but the Van Ness Improvement Project really will have its grand opening in less than a week.
SF News No Fooling! The Van Ness Rapid Transit Project Will Be Completed April 1 SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF News Fire at Abandoned Van Ness Parklet Deemed ‘Suspicious’ by SFFD The parklet outside the shuttered August 1 Five restaurant was ablaze early Saturday morning, and the fire department says the incident is "suspicious in nature."
SF News Traffic Snarl Alert: Mission and South Van Ness Intersection Will Be Closed to All Traffic Next Week About seven blocks worth of streets will be closed to traffic this coming Wednesday, and continuing til Monday, August 9, in the latest BS from the Van Ness BRT.
SF News Scathing New Report Details Why Van Ness Construction Went Years Past Deadline, Way Over Budget Now three years beyond its original deadline and nearly $40 million over budget, the so-called Van Ness Improvement Project apparently went off the rails because we started digging without knowing what was underneath.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landlord Sues Restaurant Owners Who Reneged On Lease Due To Van Ness Construction Woes A landlord is suing a restaurant owner and her mother after they decided to close their Van Ness Avenue restaurant in December due to the negative impacts that the woefully delayed Van Ness Improvement Project had on the business.
SF News Pricey Retro Streetlights Coming to Van Ness Avenue In November The on-again, off-again lights inspired by ca. 1915 street design are back on again, after being nixed by the SFMTA and the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. Matier & Ross reported in the
SF News 'Screaming' Pedestrian Pinned Beneath Car On Van Ness A man was left with life-threatening injuries on a busy SF street Thursday, after an incident police characterize as a traffic collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian. According to the San Francisco
SF News Car Wars: Mercedes Driver Slams Into San Francisco Tesla Dealership Mercedes SLK300 just crashed into Van Ness Tesla Store. pic.twitter.com/3D7n2PQ3V2— Pavel Uvarov (@puvar) September 4, 2017 It was fancy car v fancy car on Van Ness Avenue Monday afternoon, when
SF News Ventriloquist Dummy At Large Following Van Ness Attack A nasty pair of thieves attacked a man on Van Ness Avenue late Thursday, assaulting him and stealing his ventriloquism device. Police say that the crime went down at 10:50 p.m.
SF News Proposed Van Ness Double Towers Want Double The Parking, 25 Percent More Units Plans are moving along for the tall building high-rise zone at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue, as a roughly 12-block area around that crossroads has been granted higher height allowances by the
SF News Man Killed Friday Morning In Brawl Outside Van Ness Avenue Hotel UPDATE: Victim of SF hotel homicide got into a fight with a suspect and sustained fatal wounds, @SFPD says. https://t.co/s7LVCI2mdr— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) June 2, 2017 A fight outside
SF News Police Remove Possibly Suicidal Climber From Hayes Street Crane Man climbing construction crane in #SanFrancisco prompts police response https://t.co/mvbOPCKNtf pic.twitter.com/QaUsoyX5Qf— Julianne Herrera (@JulestheFirst26) March 19, 2017 A man who climbed a construction crane in San Francisco's
SF News Wicked Woman Violently Robs San Francisco Opera-Goer A patron of the San Francisco Opera is recovering today, after she was violently mugged last night as she was leaving the performance venue. It was 10:45 p.m. Thursday evening when
SF News Check Out The Pretty New Tower Proposed For South Van Ness And Otis A rendering has just arrived for one of a gaggle of proposed high-rises that are set to transform the area of mid-Market at the busy intersection of Van Ness. This one is separate
SF News Van Ness Partially Closed This Weekend For Third And Final Time As workers shape a tunnel connecting the under-construction 274-bed California Pacific Medical Center campus to some medical offices on the opposite side of the street, Van Ness Avenue will close to traffic from
SF News This Is What Market And Van Ness May Look Like In A Few Years On the left you have the latest design for One Van Ness, by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta. On the right, a proposed residential tower at Mission and South Van Ness by Skidmore Owings
SF News Three Possible Homicides Last Weekend Include 23-Year-Old Canadian Woman Found In Golden Gate Park Three people have died in SF since Thursday, all under circumstances that the San Francisco Police Department considers "suspicious" (or worse). In one case, a man died after a coffee shop altercation; in
Arts & Entertainment What Do You Think Of These Giant Light Sculptures Planned For Van Ness? It's officially been game on for the Van Ness Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project since 2013, when the plan to construct a separated-from-traffic set of lanes for Golden Gate Transit and Muni's 49
SF News Van Ness Is Going To Be Partially Closed All Weekend Attention all Uber X and Lyft drivers, their passengers, and all those of you who own cars and are going to try to use Van Ness or Franklin to get yourselves to the
SF News A Cycle Of Crime And Addiction: The Short Sad Life Of Alice Brown Alice Brown had been headed down a dangerous road for a while, if court records and statements from family and friends are any indication. That road turned into a dead end Tuesday night,
SF News SFPD Officers Fatally Shoot Alice Brown After Crazy Pine Street Pursuit [Updated] Chevron at Van Ness/Pine completely taped off for officer involved shooting. Witnesses say 4 to 5 shoots. More soon. pic.twitter.com/CbwziLxq2S— Kale Williams (@sfkale) March 18, 2015 The San Francisco
