Tenderloin Residents Are Taking Back Lower Turk

Posted June 26, 2014 by Karin Drucker

On Friday, June 26 the San Francisco Trans March will end its route at Turk and Taylor for a ribbon cutting to celebrate the Board of Supervisor’s decision to rename the 100 block of Turk Street after Vicki Marlane, a
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Sorry Media, McDonald’s is Not Opening Tech Center in SF’s Mid-Market

Posted June 25, 2014 by Randy Shaw

The media stampede is on: “McDonald’s takes a bite out of Mid-Market, opens tech office near Twitter” spoke the SF Business Times. “McDonald’s Launches Mid-Market ‘Digital Incubator’” chimed SF Eater. “McDonald’s Opens Up Mid-Market San Francisco Office To Lure Tech-Savvy
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Mid-Market Resumes Resurgence

Posted June 9, 2014 by Randy Shaw

In the past two weeks, the two most important dormant sites in Mid-Market announced plans to begin construction. This cements the area’s resurgence. San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood has seen massive investment in recent years, but until recently two of its
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Happy 100th Birthday to the Tenderloin’s First Movie Theatre

Posted June 2, 2014 by Jack Tillmany

June 1st 2014 marks the 100th birthday of the Tenderloin’s first and only surviving movie theatre, a site which has been all things to all people over the past ten decades, but which few San Franciscans remember to include in
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Plan to Increase Tenderloin Policing is Stalled

Posted May 15, 2014 by Randy Shaw

A plan to sharply increase the number of Tenderloin police offers on the streets has stalled despite broad support. And the neighborhood’s seniors, children, disabled residents and working people are paying the price. I described on March 26 how SFPD
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Mayor Lee, Community Leaders Celebrate New Tenderloin Museum

Posted April 22, 2014 by Karin Drucker

San Francisco is about to get a new museum that aims to educate the world about its least understood neighborhood. On Monday, April 21 Randy Shaw, Executive Director of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc. (and editor of Beyond Chron told the gathered
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