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Anthropologie Becomes Latest Retail Chain Store to Leave SF’s Union Square

April 25, 2023 12:29 pmApril 25, 2023 12:42 pm

The women’s clothing store Anthropologie announced on Tuesday that it would be closing its Union Square location in San Francisco next month, becoming the latest major retailer to vacate the city this year. Since the beginning of the decade, a...

Gov. Newsom Directs CHP, National Guard To Assist San Francisco With Handling Fentanyl Crisis

April 24, 2023 5:26 pmApril 24, 2023 5:47 pm

During the weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom directed both the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the California National Guard (CalGuard) to assist the City of San Francisco in helping them handle the fentanyl crisis. For over a decade, San Francisco has...

Lt. Governor Kounalakis Announces 2026 Run For Governor

April 24, 2023 12:36 pmApril 24, 2023 12:36 pm

Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis announced on Monday that she is officially running for Governor in 2026, becoming the first major candidate to declare their candidacy over three years before the 2026 primary election. Kounalakis, a graduate of both Dartmouth and...

Leaving San Francisco: Three Tales Of Business Owners Who Left And Why

April 19, 2023 2:30 amApril 19, 2023 2:31 am

With businesses continuing to scramble out of San Francisco, the Globe talked with business owners leaving the city for one of three options: In a new city nearby San Francisco, elsewhere in the state, and outside the state. Each one...

San Francisco Begins Latest Program to Attempt Bringing Back Retail

April 17, 2023 6:31 pmApril 17, 2023 6:31 pm

A new program by the city of San Francisco to revitalize it’s empty downtown to give free rent and grant money for pop-up businesses was started on Monday, with applications now available. Since 2020, around the start of the COVID-19...

Arrest Made in SF Murder of Cash App Founder Bob Lee

April 13, 2023 1:40 pmApril 13, 2023 2:55 pm

Cash App Founder and MobileCoin CPO Bob Lee was stabbed to death April 4th in the San Francisco neighborhood of Rincon Hill, leading to outrage from residents and tech leaders. Lee moved to Miami last year concerned about the crime...

Why Businesses Are Leaving San Francisco

April 12, 2023 2:30 amApril 12, 2023 7:14 am

The Monday closure of San Francisco’s flagship Whole Foods supermarket is just the latest in a long string of both chain and small businesses in the city. Crime, drug use, and economic factors unique to San Francisco, have led many business...