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.

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.

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.

The big empty Macy’s won't be an empty Macy’s anymore, as the long-promised Stonestown Galleria Whole Foods Market says it’s “Opening in December.”

Rare Device, the housewares and gift store and art gallery at 600 Divisadero, is opening up a spinoff plant shop across the street later this week called Plant House by Rare Device (505 Divisadero). 

A designer consignment shop moves home, Safeway changes its hours once again to combat shoplifting, and a new chiropractor and dog grooming business are on the way.

An erroneous claim that Target is closing its downtown San Francisco Metreon location was picked up by conservative media, but shot down by a simple email from a Chronicle reporter who asked the company.

After 14 years in the Castro, Daddy's Barbershop has permanently closed citing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In an attempt to halt the closure of laundromats — and the removal of in-unit laundry machines — the Planning Commission just passed a set of laundromat protections.