IKEA San Francisco will celebrate its grand opening at the 945 Market Street location with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday at 11 a.m.

The 53rd annual SF Pride Celebration and Parade brought the color, the community, and the crowds to the streets of San Francisco over the weekend.

The city of San Francisco kicked off its Juneteenth celebrations with the first annual Juneteenth Parade on Saturday.

Wow, that was fast. The “flagship” mid-Market Whole Foods that opened at Eighth and Market Streets in March 2022 only lasted until April 2023, and as of Tuesday, the store is no longer operating.

It appears to be becoming a new retail real estate trend: Large shuttered drug stores in San Francisco that offer loads of space are being reenvisioned into smaller chunks of space for retail or offices.

The fine dining restaurant that went from a constantly sold-out pop-up in an apartment to a brick-and-mortar location in uptown Oakland appeared to be expanding this week, but the deal for a space in San Francisco has fallen through and that announcement was premature.

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.

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.

Fast-casual chicken and rice restaurant Gai has opened its second location at 1001 Market Street (at Sixth), formerly Homeskillet.

Hi Neighbor Restaurant Group is hoping to capitalize on the nearby music and culture scene that is crawling back to life in Civic Center, and pivoting the former Corridor to become more of a cocktail bar.

Tomorrow, Saturday, November 6, a group of residents and advocacy groups will march through the Tenderloin to amplify a call for long-overdue efforts to improve safety for families, kids, and residents in the neighborhood.

Flyaway Productions will perform a free aerial dance performance on the outside of buildings in the heart of the Tenderloin this weekend, in an effort to spotlight the impacts of mass incarceration.

As businesses in Mid-Market and SoMa slowly come back to life, the Namu Gaji/Namu Stonepot/Sunset Squares team of Dennis Lee, David Lee, and Daniel Lee are opening up SSP Beer Hall (59 9th Street). Also, there's a Sunset Squares Slice Shop opening on Divisadero, in the former Namu Stonepot space.