A group of toddlers stood holding signs in front of the Westfield San Francisco Centre on Monday asking residents to help keep their neighborhood grocery stores open.The children, with their parents, stood protesting at the future home of a Bristol Farms, a high-end supermarket with ties to Albertsons. Five of The City’s 28 major grocery stores have shut down in the last year, leaving some neighborhoods without a market to buy fresh produce, meat or dairy products.
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Developers are moving ahead with plans to build 154 condominiums and ground-floor retail on the former Shen auto dealership site, where proposals in prior years have failed.
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In response to the fire earlier this month that killed longtime residents Richard and Angela Dunbar, fire officials want to kick off a new campaign to get smoke detectors in every household.The Dunbars, Highland Drive residents who were active in the community, died after a fire broke out in their home just after midnight on July 9. Firefighters pulled the couple from their home, but they were pronounced dead shortly after. Their house was not equipped with a single working smoke detector.
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The City Attorney's Office in San Francisco is charged with handling court cases and drafting legislation at the behest of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — which is why lawyers there spend so much time pursuing hackneyed laws based on ideological whims.
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A South San Francisco man suffered non-life-threatening injuries early Monday morning when another man allegedy attempted to run him over with his sport utility vehicle.South San Francisco police arrested Rodrigo Martinez, 25, of San Francisco, on suspicion of attempted murder and driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and booked him into San Mateo County Jail. He allegedly hit Jaime Rodriguez with his black 2000 Chevy Tahoe on a street corner in South City after getting into a fight with Rodriguez and others.
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Plans to renovate the long-vacant Castaways Restaurant at Coyote Point have been jettisoned by the restaurant's owner, after the county refused to extend the lease beyond 2014, officials said Monday.As early as January, Castaways owner Specialty Restaurant Corp. had submitted plans to renovate the facility at a cost of more than $2 million. But in order to recover its costs, Specialty wanted at least a 20-year lease extension on the land, something the county was not interested in, Vince Kikugawa, CEO of Specialty Restaurant Corp., said.
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He’s the youngest player in history to reach 450 home runs in his career. He’s won eight Silver Slugger awards, two Gold Gloves, two American League MVP awards, has movie-star looks, and is in the middle of a contract that pays him a quarter of a billion dollars. So how come I feel sorry for him?
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The city is raising the bar for pedestrian safety around town, particularly around its major shopping districts.Pedestrian-involved accidents and several "close calls" have been an ongoing problem in the general downtown area, particularly around Burlingame Avenue and Broadway, Police Chief Jack Van Etten said. The intersection of El Camino Real and Broadway, where crossing guards are standard fare, remains one of the top areas for red-light violations, Van Etten said.
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The lack of state monies to fund a high-speed rail system from Los Angeles to San Francisco could stall Caltrain's arrival at the much-anticipated Transbay Terminal until 2021.The yet-to-be built transit center at First and Mission streets, which some say will be the Grand Central Station of the West, with bus, BART, Caltrain and high-speed rail service, is expected to cost about $3.4 billion. Only around $1.5 billion of that funding is accounted for, said Maria Ayerdi, director of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority.
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Promoters of the Mavericks surf contest could borrow a play from international soccer by setting up big-screen viewing areas in parking lots, pubs and hotels to accommodate the growing popularity of the event, according to local officials.An estimated 40,000 people swarmed the big wave surfing competition off the coast of Princeton-by-the-Sea, tripling the area’s population for the daylong event a year ago, said Sheriff’s Lt. Steven Shively.
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