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 Politics Supervisors Push to Lift Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness — What About Other Neighborhoods With Vacant Storefronts? Two SF supervisors are floating a rule-change that would lift limits on formula retail on the struggling Van Ness corridor. But the proposal prompts the question of why the Board of Supervisors isn't looking at more widespread changes to these rules.
SF News 'One Oak' Tower at Foot of Van Ness Might Get Built After All, But With Smaller Affordable Component A long-stalled residential tower slated to go into a lot at Van Ness and Market, which we thought was completely dead, may get revived by a new developer who is now taking a fresh look at the project's feasibility.
SF News There Was a Saturday Sideshow On Van Ness Avenue, In the Middle of SF The encroachment of Oakland-style sideshows in San Francisco — particularly on warm-weather weekends — continues, and there was one on Saturday night that was surprisingly close to Pacific Heights.
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 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 News Four Years Into Van Ness Bus Lane Project, Red Concrete Gets Poured for Lanes SF residents are mostly confused, but also royally annoyed and angered, that the SFMTA's seemingly straightforward project to add bus rapid-transit lanes down the center of Van Ness Avenue has somehow taken four years.
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 Despite Nearby Construction Trailers Shuttered Van Ness McDonald's To Stay As Is For Time Being When some construction trailers appeared near the now-shuttered McDonald's on Van Ness Avenue at Golden Gate, it was easy to imagine that a developer had some plans in store for the derelict property.
SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News Vespa Rider Seriously Injured After South Van Ness Accident At first, before reading this story, we were ready to shake our finger at the Vespa rider in question. Lord knows we worry about you kids. But it seems she wasn't at fault.
SF News SFist Blotter -- On Saturday Friday at around 10:40 p.m., Jan. 26, 24-year-old Ernesto Williams was shot and killed while standing outside his car at the Chevron station at Sixth and Harrison streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Being Prepared for Not Being Prepared: Grocery Stores Open Late? Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Benefit Show Honoring Erno "Tattoo" Szabady: Local rock bands Slowfinger, DickDusters, and the Walker Brothers get together to raise money for a burial "niche" for well-known, recently deceased tattoo artist, Szabady. Show
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Times</em>' Critical Mass Article Too much ink has been spilled and too much bandwidth used to praise/bury Critical Mass in length. Now the LA Times gets in on the action. We'd love to break it down
SF News More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction
Arts & Entertainment Cool Newsreel Video of SF Earthquake While playing around on YouTube yesterday to look for some H.R. Puffenstuff stuff, we stumbled upon this newsreel footage of San Francisco after the '06 quake. The print might not be of
misc SFist Watches: Are You a Survivor (What?) But we realize the show still has its fans, and its wannabe Survivors, so we wanted to make sure all you Robinson Crusoe-types know about the open casting call being held by KPIX
SF News ChronicleWatch, Where Are You? Residents have been complaining for about a year, with scant help from city officials. SFPUC,which oversees the lights, blames the problems on "aging infrastructure and a complicated transmission system that must be