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SF’s Moscone Center Opens as Mass Vaccine Site Friday
Brand New, Vaccines On Friday, February 5, Moscone Center in San Francisco will open as a new high-volume vaccination site. The site will initially serve health care workers and community members ages 65 and older, by appointment only and in accordance with the State’s prioritization plan. The site will eventually allow for vaccinations on more...
SF’s New Drop-In Vaccine Site for Seniors
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Vaccines Vaccine alert… Just announced, a brand new vaccination site has popped up at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General’s Learning Center Bldg 30. It’s open for seniors 65 or older who live in 94110, 94112, or 94107 zip codes. Best of all, no appointments are needed. It’s open every day from 9am more...
These SF Seniors 65+ Can Get a Vaccine w/o an Appointment
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Vaccines Vaccine alert. Vaccine appointments can be hard to get, but there’s good news for select San Franciscans. On February 2, San Francisco Department of Public Health announced that Covid-19 vaccines are now available for residents who are 65 and older in 94124 and 94134 zip codes, no appointment needed. Just bring with more...
SF’ First “Navigation Center” for Unhoused Youth Opens This Week
Brand New, Housing, Only in San Francisco San Francisco is getting ready to open its brand new 75-bed Navigation Center for transitional age youth, ages 18-24. The Navigation Center in Lower Polk is the first of its kind for youth experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. In addition to shelter, it will provide medical and mental health services, workforce development more...
Trader Joe’s Now Pays $4/Hr Hazard Pay
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Groceries / Supermarkets, Support the Bay Thanks to Tampa Bay Times for sharing the news that Trader Joe’s will now pay their all of their front-line employees $4 per hour hazard pay across the country. While many cities and counties around The Bay are trying to pass emergency ordinances for hazard pay (like Oakland recently passed), Trader more...
Oakland Mandates $5/Hr Hazard Pay for Grocery Workers
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Groceries / Supermarkets, Support the Bay Thanks to KTVU and KRON4 for sharing the news that Oakland just passed an emergency ordinance that mandates hazard pay for grocery workers. The new ordinance requires large grocery chains that are over 15,000 square feet and more than 500 employees to pay their employees an additional $5 per hour. The pay more...
SF’s Chinese New Year Ox Sculpture Hunt
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Celebrations, Lunar New Year, Only in San Francisco, Things to Do Gung Hay Fat Choy. Chinese New Year will look a little different this year, but San Francisco is doing something new to spark joy. This year, San Francisco is debuting the Year of the Ox on Parade. A tradition in the making, 11 life-sized Oxen will be publicly displayed across San more...
East Bay’s Free Mini Take-Home Art Gallery
Adorable, Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Community, Freebies, Uplifting Over in the East Bay, Concord’s aRt Cottage just debuted their brand new Free Mini Art Gallery. Best of all, the art is yours to take home. It’s kind of like the little free libraries you may have seen before, but this time it’s for art. The Concord Art Association members more...
Great America Announces 2021 Reopening Date
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Fun & Games, What's Closed / What's Open California’s Great America becomes the first theme park in the state to announce their reopening date for 2021, after being closed for all of 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic. Thanks to OC Register for sharing the news. On January 28, the park announced that their 2021 Opening Day will be May more...
Get $100 for Visiting CA’s Central Coast
Brand New, Deals, Travel About now, everyone could use a little break. One small town in California wants to give you a $100 voucher to explore their region for a couple of nights. Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the details of this fun promotion from Santa Maria Valley. The town, which is about 30 minutes south of more...
SF Opens 1st Neighborhood COVID-19 Vaccine Site
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Vaccines San Francisco announced today the opening of a new neighborhood COVID-19 vaccine site at 24th Street and Capp Street in the Mission District. The 24th Street site, which will be followed shortly by a neighborhood vaccine access site in the Bayview, is the first of a number of neighborhood sites that more...
Cannabis Superstore & Smoking Lounge Likely Coming to Mission Dist.
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight Thanks to SFist for sharing the news that San Francisco is getting its first Cannabis Equity Marketplace inside a new mega cannabis dispensary. The Planning Commision just approved a brand new cannabis dispensary, poised to be one of the biggest in the City. The proposed business, 560 Valencia, will take over more...
SF’s Brand New “Navigation Center” Opens for Bayview’s Unhoused
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Getting Help, Only in San Francisco, Support the Bay, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco just opened the brand new “Navigation Center” in Bayview, and its first tenants have already moved in. It’s The City’s 7th SAFE Navigation Center which began housing people on January 25, 2021. With the new opening, San Francisco now supports more than 14,000 unhoused people. As with the City’s other more...
Could BART’s Future Include a 2nd Transbay Crossing?
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel Thanks to SFGate for sharing the latest proposal from Bay Area Council Economic Institute which envisions the future of the Bay Area transit. One of the main features of their grand plan is to unlock the transbay bottleneck with a new transbay rail crossing between Oakland and San Francisco. A new transbay more...
SF Considers Starting a City-Run Public Bank
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight, Only in San Francisco The city of San Francisco is considering starting a municipal public bank; it would be the first city in the nation to have a public bank. Thanks to 48Hills for letting us know about the city’s ambitious initiative. The measure introduced by Supervisor Dean Preston, was recently approved by 6 SF supervisors, more...
