Hayes Valley

A skincare studio and a shoe boutique have called it quits, while a pastry shop is becoming a polling place during the upcoming election.

The site was approved as a navigation center in March, but the city has scrapped those plans, and is now evaluating it for a potential tent village.

The neighborhood continues to weather a storm of post-pandemic closures, but there's at least one bright spot.

The neighborhood has seen nearly a dozen business closures since the start of the pandemic.

Plus, Mexican-Korean fusion spot Tacorea is expanding to the North Beach/Chinatown border.

The Walgreens, whose theft-plagued empty shelves went viral earlier this year, will close at the end of August.

Prairie, the Mission's restaurant-turned-general-store, is also set to shutter.

As the city responds to the Tenderloin lawsuit by clearing camps there, homeless people are flooding into Hayes Valley, neighbors say.

40 of the Haight's unhoused have found safe shelter at the Stanyan Street tent village. But there appears to be no plan for hundreds of others sleeping on the street.

The neighborhood is losing two boutiques, but gaining a new space to play with adorable kittens.

Plus, a new bubble tea spot has arrived near Oracle Park.

Two people are in critical condition after being struck over the weekend by drivers in the Mission and on Van Ness Avenue.

Plus, the Ferry Building has a new tart shop.

Numerous tipsters have asked why Souvla has been closed for nearly four months. Here's what we've learned.

Plus, Dominique Crenn is putting one of her restaurants on hiatus to help feed the hungry.

In this roundup, a mix of Hayes Valley business closings, openings, and re-workings as shelter-in-place drags on into the summer.

"It's very upsetting," said Chapman, whose family owned the diner for 68 years. "I didn't plan this kind of closure."

The 13-year-old restaurant specializing in "comfortable food" appears to have vacated its prime Hayes Valley address.

"For hospitality, there has never been a worse time," says Steve Izzo, who co-owned the restaurant with his wife, Lee Ann.

It's Tops' famed neon signage at Market and Octavia streets was removed on Wednesday.

"To see the surveillance video was so shocking to us," one of the owners of the Scandinavian inspired eatery said. "It is ridiculous."

As a citywide effort to expand open air business gains traction, merchants prepare for a new way of life.

In one incident, a man grabbed a bottle of wine from a picnic table and then threatened to harm the picnicker with the bottle.

The woman was found in the Hayes Valley park on Tuesday afternoon.

Built in 1962, the bridge is set to come down as part of the project to speed up the 38 and 38R-Geary buses.