Last weekend, specialty grocery store Luke’s Local celebrated the opening of its newest market in North Beach. Situated in a building on the corner of Green and Stockton that formerly housed a bank, it joins two other locations in Cole Valley and Cow Hollow.

Despite a packed-house crowd of opponents waving “No Marijuana” signs, the SF Planning Commission approved a new Telegraph Hill dispensary with a smoking lounge, now coming to Broadway and Front Street.

The 16th largest bank in the U.S. and one of the key lending partners to countless Bay Area tech startups has failed. Silicon Valley Bank, which is responsible for $210 billion in assets, collapsed on Friday, sending shockwaves across the U.S. economy. It is being reported as the biggest banking collapse since the fall of Washington Mutual in 2008.

After outgrowing its current storefront, Castro dog wash and groomer MudPuppy's Tub & Scrub (536 Castro St.) has expanded into a long-vacant storefront next door.

Amazon thought it was disrupting the retail industry with its no-cashier Amazon Go stores, but five years into the concept, they’re closing a bunch of them, including all four SF stores.

On Thursday, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit for cannabis retailer Positive Green at 268 Church Street, formerly Underglass Custom Framing.

Big moves are being made to make the southern portion of Milpitas, near the BART Station and the Great Mall, more lively.

A new private event space has opened at 2331 Market St., formerly the home of floral shop Ixia, filling another one of the vacancies in this building.

Thanks to neighborhood association North Beach Neighbors, 26 lucky small business owners recently benefited from free marketing support in the form of professional videos, photos, copywriting or guidance on using social media platforms like TikTok.

The future of Castro video bar Badlands appears to be in limbo after controversial landlord Les Natali was forced to surrender the bar's liquor license.

A new dispensary at Irving Street and Ninth Avenue has the distinction of being SF’s closest pot shop to Golden Gate Park, and Solful has just opened, and is recognizable with its fresh green coat of paint.

The founder of the 28-year-old youth violence prevention organization United Playaz, Rudy Corpuz Jr., will hit new highs with the grand opening of his new Stiiizy dispensary at Fourth and Brannan Streets on Saturday.

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.