Cheese lovers in the city will be losing a shop that was known to carry hard-to-find exotic varieties, unless there happens to be a takeover, which is a possibility.

There are now major concerns about the future of the longstanding Berkeley flea market held each weekend at the parking lot for BART’s Ashby Station.

After nine years at its current location on 17th Street, Castro gift shop Local Take (3979B 17th. St.) is preparing to move to a new, larger space at 18th and Castro streets.

The former Everyday Cleaners at Divisadero and Golden Gate Avenue is spinning into a new incarnation as a cannabis dispensary, after getting a City Hall permit Thursday.

A tiny bottle shop selling local craft spirits will be built into Nob Hill’s Soda Popinski’s, despite neighbor concerns about “meandering drunks making raucous noises.”

Sunglass Hut quietly closed its Castro store at 511 Castro Street last week after at least 15 years in that space.

A very large dispensary will bloom at Lombard and Steiner streets, though those plans were nearly choked because the Department of Building Inspection spaced out on a permit 17 years ago.

North Beach has plenty of places to get your drink on. But until recently, if you were seeking a mellower high from a cannabis dispensary, you were out of luck.

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.”