Castro home decor shop Kenneth Wingard (2319 Market St.) has announced it will be closing after 16 years in the neighborhood.

B8ta's CEO, Vibhu Norby, said his employees were repeatedly subjected to harassment, while the stores themselves were vandalized and broken into, and after some temporary closures, the business is calling it quits in the U.S. entirely.

Yet more businesses are bullish on a big downtown revival, as sustainable coffee purveyor Saint Frank Coffee is one of several new retailers coming into the ground floor of the twisty silver condo Mira Tower.

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.

“We were in the Tenderloin for 10 years and were really advocating for the neighborhood,” says owner Kristin Klein. “But I could not turn down a primo location in North Beach for the same price as pre-pandemic Tenderloin.”

Sour Cherry Comics (3187 16th St.) is a brand-new bookstore run by and geared towards the LGBTQ+ community.

A controversial metal foundry that has been sued for emitting toxic fumes across East Oakland now says that it is moving the 116-year-old operation to Tyler, Texas.

The new Valencia Street studio Ephemeral Tattoo is inking tattoos with a twist — their biodegradable ink tattoos will disappear from your skin within 9-15 months.

After nearly four years in the neighborhood, Castro floral art studio Blumen (548 Castro St.) will close at the end of the month.

The Castro's Levi's Store at 525 Castro Street (between 18th and 19th streets) has quietly closed after 14 years in the neighborhood.

The new Whole Foods near Civic Center will be the largest Whole Foods in San Francisco, and will open March 10 to bring a much-needed boost to a corner that has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Some 200 yards from the Great Highway, a cannabis dispensary is coming to what is currently Black Bird Bookstore. Meanwhile, Black Bird is just moving just a couple blocks up the street.

The number of storefront cannabis dispensaries could more than double in the next few months if the city council approves new zoning changes that were pushed forward by the Planning Commission in a recent 8 to 3 vote.