While locals are banking on the cinema-retail site to transform downtown, the city’s core has been through plenty of overhauls before. A teeming creek, 80 feet wide in some places, once flowed through downtown, where 100 years ago ships pulled into a port on Broadway and picked up lumber to carry to San Francisco. "It was visible from the courthouse," Redwood City historian John Edmonds said. "The lumber piles were huge."
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Business owners and citizens are counting down the days and hours until Friday night, when the 20-screen Century Theatres site opens downtown. "Friday night will be the last day of the old downtown Redwood City that people have known for 50 years," said John Anagnostou, owner of the Fox Theatre, located next door to the new cinema site. "The transition is going to blow people away."
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Farmers markets may soon open up for business in a number of San Francisco’s parks.Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi will introduce legislation today that establishes a formal process for farmers market organizers to apply with The City’s Recreation and Park Department to periodically set up a market on land overseen by the department."I’m enthusiastic in helping empower neighborhood vitality," Mirkarimi said, adding that "farmers markets bolster the economic stability of all of our diverse neighborhoods."
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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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