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.

For the company’s 170th anniversary, Ghirardelli Square is renovating its chocolate shop and ice cream parlor, plus adding a new pop-up shop.

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.

The store on Hamilton Avenue in Campbell and the store at the Great Mall in Milpitas are part of the initial group of 37 that will be closing in February.

The new owner of the Pacific Heights True Value Hardware made an unusual discovery when he took over — a 50-foot avocado tree that’s pummeling the shop’s backyard with the delicious fruit.

The Castro's newest cannabis retail store, Flore Store (258 Noe), is now open while historic neighborhood restaurant Flore (formerly Cafe Flore) has remained shuttered for two years.

A new cannabis retail shop has been proposed at 2057 Market St., formerly Market Nail Spa.

The fourth-tallest structure in Berkeley's skyline is about to officially open.

Amber Senter helped create cannabis social equity policies in the Bay Area and the state of California, and now she's part of the team that just won Planning Commission approval for a new Bayview dispensary.

A trendy, midcentury-style furniture company from Southern California has just leased a choice piece of retail real estate at the corner of Chestnut and Fillmore streets in the Marina.

The SF Planning Commission unanimously approved a new dispensary called Solful, coming to the corner of Irving Street and 10th Avenue.

After years of waiting, Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood is finally about to get its own grocery store, a 31,000-square-foot Whole Foods.

The great Walgreens closures are underway, and signs in the stores claim “90% Off” sales, but the shelves are nearly 100% empty and draped in caution tape.