Word on the street was that West Coast Leather, the handmade leather goods shop near Union Square, is opening up a location in the old Diesel store at Castro and Market (400 Castro Street).

OPENING: At the furthest borders of our Gayborhood, near the SF LGBT Center between Octavia and Gough, Proposition Chicken is set to open in early October at 1750 Market Street in the former Yum Foods

Many people are confused when it comes to defining what "formula retail" really is.

We've gotten a few tips from local residents and readers while walking around the Castro lately regarding business changes going on up and down the main business strip of the Castro.

The old Bead Store location (417 Castro Street) is getting a new tenant.

Walking by the location currently under renovation for the previously reported new Pesce Seafood Bar restaurant (in the old Jake's on Market space at 2223 Market Street), I noticed some of the plast

A new yoga studio has opened up in the old Phantom eBay Drop Off store location next to Mollie Stone's Market.

Socket Site reported yesterday that plans for the burlesque club that was set to go in at the site of the old Diesel location have been nixed as investors withdrew from escrow earlier this summer.

Haighteration reported yesterday that Safeway (2020 Market Street) is evicting San Francisco Community Recyclers from the Southeast corner of the grocery store's parking lot.

Well this was interestingly timed.

Bank of the West has applied for permits to install two lit signs outside their soon-to-be new location at the ground floor of the just-finished condominium, Icon (2299 Market Street).

Fisherman's Wharf staple and tourist favorite, See's Candies, is hoping to expand their empire into the Castro.

As we posted in March, the long closed Patio Cafe (531-541 Castro St), has been on the hunt for an enterprising restaurant concern to come and run the once beloved and popular for current owner Les