Promoting Revitalization of Both Neighborhoods (Updated 5/19) San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced today that the city will provide $5 million for an innovative strategy to reduce drug dealing in the Tenderloin and Mid-Market. The Mayor’s “Mid-Market Vibrancy and Safety
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Stakeholders Request Action from City Hall “We live daily with unacceptable and dangerous street behavior, public drug-dealing and drug-use, open-air markets peddling stolen goods, and blocked public rights-of-way that prevent our employees, customers, clients, tenants and residents from safely traveling
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New Housing, Retail Will Energize Post-Pandemic San Francisco From one perspective, San Francisco’s Mid-Market has faced tough times during the pandemic. It has little foot traffic. Cafes, restaurants and once busy retail businesses have closed. There is the sense of
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(Ed Note: This piece first appeared in SF Senior Beat.) Brenda Washington, A True Community Leader When her two older sisters left home, 15-year-old Brenda Washington began caring for her two younger brothers, babysitting nieces and nephews and cooking for
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Tenderloin Families Need Larger Homes Developer: “We will offer classes to teach people how to eat properly.” The Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC), Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC), Market Street for the Masses and neighborhood residents are opposing a destructive housing
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Tenderloin Retains Core Strengths On January 7, 2020 I wrote “A Tenderloin Breakthrough in 2020?” The subtitle: “After a Tough 2019, Tenderloin Will Move Forward.” The photo showed chefs at La Cocina’s Municipal Marketplace at 101 Hyde, which was expected
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This holiday season, pick up a copy of The Match Book: Vintage Matchbooks from San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and explore San Francisco history through colorful Tenderloin relics. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, matchbooks were calling cards used to advertise hole-in-the-wall
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Board Seeks More Information on Lawsuit After pulling the Hastings College of the Law vs. CCSF lawsuit from the consent calendar the San Francisco Board of Supervisors continued the item for a week. Many Board members had questions about the
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