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SF Wants to Convert Downtown Office Buildings into Housing
Brand New, City Insight, San Francisco Planning Commission Approves Legislation to Support Future of Downtown and Union Square The proposal introduced by Mayor Breed and Board President Peskin will help fill vacant spaces by facilitating a greater variety of businesses and activities throughout Downtown and Union Square, and removing barriers to converting office buildings to housing The Planning more...
The Bay Bridge Gets A New Off-Ramp This Weekend
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel Caltrans plans to reopen a newly constructed off-ramp to Yerba Buena Island for motorists to access Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island from the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge this Sunday May 7, 2023 at 7:00AM. The original alignment of this ramp was closed nearly 20 years ago for improvement more...
SF’s First-Ever “I Love Tenderloin Week” 2023
Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, Sponsored I Love Tenderloin Week is the culmination of a grassroots groundswell from community partners who are producing a week-long Spring celebration of the neighborhood running April 30th – May 6, 2023 with 40+ venues and neighborhood organizations joining forces to create 18 different events – most of which are free. A more...
Rogue Butterfly Sculpture Removed From Golden Gate Park
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Causes, Controversy, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco By Bay City News An illegally-erected monument to an extinct butterfly was removed from Golden Gate Park on Friday by San Francisco public art officials. The sculpture, “Memorial to the Extinct Xerces Blue Butterfly,” was “an unauthorized sculpture intervention of unknown provenance by an unidentified artist or group of artists that was more...
LPGA Tour Coming to SF’s Harding Park (May 4-7)
Brand New, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco The LPGA is bringing the best female golfers from the top eight countries across the globe back to the LPGA tour calendar for the first time since 2018 and will be held at San Francisco’s famed TPC Harding Park on May 4-7, 2023. Held biennially, the Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown celebrates the more...
$5 Outdoor Movie Night Coming to SF’s Ferry Building (May 2023)
Brand New, Get Out: Events, San Francisco Join Fort Point for “Ferry Flicks” at the their Beer Garden every Friday in May 2023 at sundown. Tickets are $5 and include popcorn. All movies were set and/or filmed in San Francisco “Vertigo” May 5, 2023 – 8:03p “Bullitt” May 12, 2023 – 8:10p “It Came from Beneath the Sea” May 19, 2023 more...
16th St. BART Might Get a New $5M Elevator
Brand New, Transportation Thanks to Mission Local for letting us know that the 16th Street BART elevator might finally get replaced after 50 years. And it will cost “only” $5 million. Built in 1973, the current elevator at 16th Street was designed to only last for 30-40 years, so it’s already passed its expected more...
Spiky Fare Gates: BART’s New $90M Evasion-Proof Plan
Brand New, Transportation Thanks to SFist for letting us know that BART fare-hoppers might be in for a spiky surprise. Since 2019, BART has been on a mission to outwit fare evaders, but their previous attempts have fallen flat. Remember the notorious “guillotine fare gate”? That’s ancient history now. This time, they’re stepping up their more...
SF Gets Brand New Night Market in 2023
Brand New, Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, San Francisco A brand new bi-monthly night market & block party is coming to Downtown San Francisco in the spring and summer of 2023 Enjoy 3 city blocks of Downtown full of music, dancing, delicious street food cuisine, cocktails and shopping from over 30 unique local artisans and retailers featuring Indian goods and more...
Bay Area Gets New Pro Women’s Soccer Team in 2024
Bay Area Updates, Brand New By Bay City News A new professional women’s soccer team is coming to the Bay Area. Former U.S. Women’s National Team players Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner announced Tuesday that the National Women’s Soccer League has awarded expansion rights to their group. The team, which has not yet more...
SF Welcomes Massive New 30,000 sqft Candy Wonderland
Brand New, Eat & Drink, San Francisco Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the sweet news that SF is set to open a giant new It’Sugar candy shop on Friday, March 31st at 10:30am. Hold onto your sweet tooth, San Francisco, because the city’s iconic Fisherman’s Wharf is about to get a whole lot sweeter. Florida-based candy giant It’Sugar more...
de Young Museum Hosts 8 Free Weekends in 2023
Brand New, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco The US Premiere of “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” at the de Young Museum received grant from Google.org providing eight weekends of free admission to the exhibition and support for vital public programming, including school and youth curriculum. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the “Museums”) just announced the more...
SF’s Adorable New Baby Penguins
Adorable, Brand New Say hello to San Francisco’s newest and cutest residents. California Academy of Sciences just welcomed two new baby penguins to its Species Survival Plan colony. The siblings were hatched from parents Poppy and Darcy. Soon, they’ll be heading off to fish school. View this post on Instagram A post shared by California Academy more...
New SoMa Cocktail Bar “The Harlequin” Opening in June 2023
Bars, Brand New, San Francisco A brand new cocktail bar is coming to San Francisco‘s Yerba Buena neighborhood. Thanks to San Francisco Business Times for sharing the details that the team behind SoMa bars Alchemist Bar & Lounge and Woodbury and Members Only and Finders Keepers in Lower Nob Hill, are debuting a new bar called more...
Shake Shack Opens Another New Bay Area Restaurant on March 16
Brand New, East Bay, Eat & Drink Shake Shack is thrilled to announce it will open at Bay Street Emeryville on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 11am. The Bay Street Emeryville Shack will be Shake Shack’s third location in the East Bay and the 11th location in the greater Bay Area. This Shack will be a part more...
