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Chestnut Street Next Up For Major Redo?

As part of its Muni Forward program, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has proposed significant changes to Chestnut Street the agency says will increase ped... Read More
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Fire Hits Liverpool Lil’s

The Liverpool Lil’s neighborhood pub (2942 Lyon Street) suffered a fire April 29 that was soon contained by the San Francisco Fire Department, though not before the two-alarm... Read More
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Apothecarium Plans For Lombard

Plans for marijuana dispensary The Apothecarium’s second San Francisco location have been much talked-about in the Marina; the proposed location is 2414 Lombard, which would ... Read More
Market Report

The Marina Times Real Estate Market Report: February 2015

By Hill & Co.

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The Zuckerberg Bill: Construction Parking Plan Introduced

Last fall, neighbors in Dolores Park complained that Facebook titan Mark Zuckerberg had hired people to save parking places for construction workers who were working on his home th... Read More
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Invite Your Inlaws For Seismic Retrofit

With many property owners in the city either undergoing mandatory seismic retrofits or planning and dreading them, the city has thrown them a possible bonus. In early March, the Bo... Read More
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San Francisco, Hud Partner To Redo Public Housing

Cities across the country have changed the way they handle public housing. San Francisco joined that group in February when city leaders and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Sec... Read More
The Best of Books

What you’re reading

By Brian Pettus

Books Inc. best-seller list The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (hardcover), by Marie Kondo City of Thieves: A Novel (paperback)... Read More
Police Blotter

Spotting and avoiding precrime

In the Steven Spielberg science fiction film Minority Report, Tom Cruise portrayed a policeman in the future where technology helps detect crimes before they happen — precrime. T... Read More
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Marina Residents Sound Off on Crime

Marina residents at a meeting in March voiced strong worries about an expansion in property crime, homelessness, and even home invasions. Though violent crime is down by about 25 p... Read More
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Lombard Gets First Route Of Muni Competitor

Like cabs did with Uber, Muni buses could learn the modern meaning of “You snooze, you lose” this year with the launch of a new private shuttle service designed to be m... Read More
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Prop. B Is Not Settled

A pending lawsuit by the California State Lands Commission over the validity of Proposition B has caught the eyes of legislators, developers, urban planners, and antigrowth advocat... Read More
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Presidio Parklands Concepts Unveiled

The redevelopment of 13 acres stretching from Crissy Field to the heart of the Presidio took a step further in late March with the release of new conceptual designs for the space. ... Read More
Opinion

Switching the Alcatraz ferry to Fort Mason could cost a lot

By John Farrell

Recently we learned that the National Park Service (NPS) wants to move the Alcatraz ferry from its long-term home at the Port of San Francisco to Fort Mason. This move may be neces... Read More
News

The Valley and the gap: The recovery’s finally getting up to speed, but an income gap persists even as the Valley leads the pack

For the economy, it’s not quite the best of times, but it’s definitely not the worst. Wages still lag for most people, but the six-year economic recovery is finally pos... Read More

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