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Civic Center

The days of bars reopening and then closing again appear not to be over, as once-bustling Tenderloin/Civic Center cocktail spot Whitechapel (600 Polk Street) has decided to close temporarily once more due to flagging business, and it will operate temporarily as a private event space.

A 5,000 square-foot, city-sanctioned roller rink at Fulton Plaza opened Saturday, and will remain there until December 31, and possibly longer.

Both Happy Hours and formal dinners are accompanied by live jazz, classical, and chamber music at Uccello Lounge, a new upscale restaurant and bar at the SF Conservatory of Music.

Jubilant participants and spectators took over Market Street during yesterday’s 52nd annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade. According to the San Francisco police, an estimated 500,000 people gathered for the festivities.

A pop-up pizza operation in San Francisco is about to move into permanent digs along the border of the Tenderloin and Civic Center neighborhoods.

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.