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Two SFPD officers, former SF cop arrested - Mission Local
WEBApr 19, 2022 · Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. Two current San Francisco police officers and one part-time retired San Francisco police officer were taken into custody today by their employer for charges including theft of a machine gun from the SFPD and destruction of evidence. The SFPD announced the arrests today, …
Grand Coffee’s cafe opens its doors on Mission Street, S.F.
WEBJun 16, 2022 · Grand’s founder, Nabeel Silmi, opened the original Grand Coffee adjacent to the Grand Theater at 2663 Mission St. in 2010, a tiny hole-in-the-wall that could only accommodate four customers on bar stools. It has operated through a to-go window since the pandemic. Silmi told Mission Local he was first …
Valerie Tulier-Laiwa, Latino Task Force co-chair and “Mama Bear ...
WEBOct 15, 2021 · When Mayor London Breed opened the 2021 Latino Heritage Month celebration Thursday night, she introduced Valerie Tulier-Laiwa as a “Mama Bear” and the recipient of the Rosario Anaya Community Award for her tireless work with the Latino Task Force during the pandemic.
Memorial service for homeless artist Ronnie Goodman at Capp …
WEBAug 7, 2020 · Ronnie Goodman, a homeless artist and distance runner who has lived on the streets of the Mission District for years, died this morning at his encampment on Capp and 16th Streets. Rescue workers tried to revive the 60-year-old, but those efforts proved unsuccessful, said Paula Tejada, the owner of nearby Chile …
MEDA, Mission Housing tapped to build the ‘Marvel in the Mission’
WEBDec 6, 2023 · It sat until 2021, when market-rate developer Crescent Heights agreed to buy the land and donate it to the city, in exchange for building a 966-unit market-rate building in downtown San Francisco. And, this week, the city picked Mission Housing and MEDA to build it — with at least 70 more affordable units than expected.
San Francisco's proposed trash cans, at $2,000 to $3,000 a pop, …
WEBAug 20, 2021 · Meanwhile, Sacramento spends $1,300 per can; Washington, D.C., $987; and Los Angeles, $449.51. Chicago, which discontinued purchasing $504.70 decorative baskets ...
Understanding the Mission District’s history
WEBAug 3, 2018 · Mission District history map. The nominal Mission of the Mission was San Francisco de Asis, founded by Spanish Franciscans in 1776, but Yelamu Indians inhabited the area around Mission Creek for thousands of years before that. Since the Spanish came, there’s been waves of immigrants and newcomers: Irish, Germans, Latin …
Mission Local counts 261 homeless individuals in the heart of the ...
WEBJul 31, 2019 · Earlier this month, Mission Local counted 261 homeless individuals and 70 tents in the area between Dolores and the freeway, Cesar Chavez and Market Street over the course of four days. This compared to the 257 unsheltered individuals in the city’s 2019 point in time count of District 9, an area that is nearly double the geographical area of ...
View From an SF Mission Hacker Hostel - Mission Local
WEBSep 11, 2015 · View From an SF Mission Hacker Hostel. Bryant and 22nd streets, near the hacker hostel. Tucker Leavitt bikes to Twitter every day for work from a beautifully renovated house on Bryant near 22nd Street. But life in the Mission is not so different from his dorm at Stanford – except that he has more roommates in San Francisco.