Tenderloin
San Francisco Tenderloin
Larkin Street Boba Tea Shop Owner Arrested Again for Allegedly Continuing to Deal Stolen Merchandise
Quoc Le, owner of the Larkin Street Boba Tea Shop, has been arrested for the third time for fencing stolen merchandise. This bubble tea shop has become known as a "Notorious Fence."
San Francisco Mid-Market Tenderloin
Whole Foods at Eighth and Market shuts down just one year after opening
Wow, that was fast. The “flagship” mid-Market Whole Foods that opened at Eighth and Market Streets in March 2022 only lasted until April 2023, and as of Tuesday, the store is no longer operating.
San Francisco Bayview Mission Tenderloin
The 2023 Sunday Streets schedule has arrived, and it’s the 15th anniversary season
Six Sundays of car-free community spaces and fabulous family fun are lined up again for 2023, so mark your calendar with the brand new 2023 Sunday Streets schedule for the event series’ 15th anniversary.
San Francisco Civic Center Tenderloin
Gin-centric bar Whitechapel is closing for the season in Civic Center
The days of bars reopening and then closing again appear not to be over, as once-bustling Tenderloin/Civic Center cocktail spot Whitechapel (600 Polk Street) has decided to close temporarily once more due to flagging business, and it will operate temporarily as a private event space.
San Francisco Tenderloin
Site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in the Tenderloin is now a historic landmark
The SF Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to make the entire corner of Turk and Taylor Streets a historic landmark, as the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot that helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement.
San Francisco Embarcadero Mission Tenderloin
La Cocina bringing a monthly Ferry Fridays marketplace to the Ferry Building
The nonprofit kitchen incubator La Cocina expands on their popular Tenderloin Municipal Marketplace with a new monthly Friday happy hour marketplace Ferry Fridays at the Ferry Building, with live music and mural painting.
San Francisco Tenderloin
Beleaguered 180 Jones site will rise as affordable housing for families
This vacant lot has been a sanctioned tent encampment, and at one point was slated to be a meth sobering center, but now will get a dignified happy outcome as 70 units of affordable housing for low-income and homeless families.
San Francisco Tenderloin
A 17-block ‘Yellow Brick Road’ is coming to the Tenderloin
The Tenderloin has the highest concentration of children of any San Francisco neighborhood, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved a Yellow Brick Road to direct kids away from blight, and toward schools, parks, and community centers.
San Francisco Tenderloin
La Cocina will launch holiday market that spotlights minority-owned businesses at Tenderloin food hall
La Cocina, the beloved and award-winning kitchen incubator, is set to host its first in-person event since the pandemic began: a holiday pop-up at the Tenderloin's La Cocina Municipal Marketplace.
San Francisco Polk Tenderloin
Local TV news piece on ‘luxury condos’ overlooking Tenderloin encampment draws jeers from all sides
Social media is piling on a new local TV station report about how “luxury condos overlook city’s worst squalor,” with some mocking how the issue is framed, and others eager to lodge the insult “Pelosiland.”