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Rain didn’t dampen the new year spirit over the weekend as participants and onlookers alike converged on downtown to celebrate the 2023 Alaska Airlines Chinese New Year Parade on Saturday night.

Bad news for SF fans of the midcentury knockoff sofas and other modern accouterments sold by CB2 — the brand's 15-year-old store on Ellis Street, next to the newly open Central Subway entrance, is giving up the ghost.

One of San Francisco’s busiest shopping areas is losing another big retailer: The Container Store. But it's just moving elsewhere in SoMa.

The SF SPCA and Macy’s unveiled their holiday windows at Union Square on Friday. And this year’s windows saw the return of live adoptable kittens and puppies for the first time since 2019.

Another pop-up is moving into Union Square: Smartphone maker Samsung is about to open up a temporary shopping experience inside the former Uniqlo store at 111 Powell Street.

Bouncing back from bankruptcy, the once-ubiquitous toy retailer Toys R Us will rear its giraffe head again in San Francisco, inside the Union Square Macy’s store, as early as October 15.

Another Popeyes Louisiana Chicken is coming to San Francisco, this one headed for the Westfield Centre food court spot that was recently occupied by Chipotle.

A San Francisco entrepreneur with extensive restaurant, bar, and nightlife experience appears to have two new business ventures in the works.

While it won't be there forever, the long-empty Forever 21 storefront in downtown San Francisco will have the candy emporium It'Sugar occupying the place while the building converts to office space.

It’s been just over a year since a fire nearly took down the building that housed Pacific Cocktail Haven, and now the bar is opening back up a stone's throw away from its original location.

San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festival and Parade made its “roaring” return after a forced pandemic pause last year.

The Palabok Fiesta is still on, though delayed until 2023, a Jollibee says they’re still going to open the Powell Street restaurant in the former Payless ShoeSource.

Van Cleef & Arpels — a centuries-old jewelry chain founded in Paris — and the luxury fashion company Chanel recently acquired new retail store locations in Union Square that are set to debut this year, each real estate investment existing as a sign that downtown SF is rebounding.

Welcome the Year of the Tiger with these 2022 Lunar New Year festivities in the Bay Area, or attend a virtual celebration.

The latest retail casualty in the ongoing shutter parade around Union Square — and in the ongoing retail decline nationwide — is the Market Street/Westfield Mall location of Abercrombie & Fitch.

For over three decades, the SF SPCA and Macy’s holiday windows have signaled the true start of the holiday season in the city.

Open bar has been a long-forgotten indulgence amidst the pandemic, but leave it to the Sisters to bring it back for their Pride prom.

Starting next week, San Franciscans don't have to go to Cow Hollow to get your Shake Shack fix. The chain is opening its second San Francisco location in the heart of downtown, at the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall (845 Market St.), just a hop and a skip from the Powell Street BART station.

The largest hotel on the west coast is back in business Monday, May 24th, but not at full capacity, and not with its 46th floor panoramic-view bar just yet.

You’ll need a vaccination card for admission to the newly reopened Feinstein’s, but the Hotel Nikko’s cabaret theater has booked stars worth getting the shot for.

Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo announced Friday — via a filing with the state employment department — that it is closing its nine-year-old Union Square location at 111 Powell Street for good and laying off all 69 employees.

Businesses throughout San Francisco have struggled with theft and break-ins during the pandemic, and the founder of electronics and housewares retailer b8ta recently took to Twitter in an effort to demand action.

SF’s only Marshalls location has its days numbered, as the discount apparel retailer will close its Market Street store.

The Moscone Center says it faced declining business even before the pandemic, but the city is loath to help amidst COVID-19 budget deficits.

A lucrative location was rendered a terrible location when the pandemic hit, and Martin Yan’s namesake foray into shopping mall chic has closed.