City planning commissioners approved an ambitious proposal Thursday for new high-rise buildings and neighborhood improvements intended to revitalize the South of Market area surrounding the planned Transbay Terminal.The Transit Center District Plan outlines developments in the neighborhood, as well as ways to raise revenue to help pay for the new $4 billion terminal at First and Mission streets, such as a special property tax on new construction in the district.
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The resurgence of the mid-Market Street neighborhood could be boosted by another bus line serving the area.
Muni has proposed adding an express route that would operate during peak weekday travel times. The 83X Mid-Market Express would travel an L-shaped path from the Caltrain station at Fourth and Townsend streets to the Civic Center at Ninth and Market streets, running from 7 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.
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A woman who allegedly tried to set a fellow homeless person’s tent on fire in a dank South of Market alley early Thursday simply won’t leave the guy alone, police said.The homeless man told cops he has no idea why the woman, who has allegedly attacked him before, tried to set the tent ablaze while he slept about 3 a.m. in the 500 block of Jessie Street, police said.
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An arrest has been made in the South of Market stabbing that claimed the life of Joseph Minozzi, a 30-year-old high-rise window washer who had appeared in a 2010 episode of A&E’s “Intervention,” police said.
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San Francisco police are hunting for a thug who stabbed a man in the thigh in the South of Market neighborhood last week after he refused to give him $5.“You should have gave me what I asked for,” the suspect told the man before the attack in the unit block of Sixth Street about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said Monday.
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San Francisco police dealt with two crime scenes early Wednesday after a man who was shot in the Tenderloin was brought by pals to a South of Market hotel.
Police responded to a hotel in the 200 block of Ninth Street just after 3 a.m. The victim, a man in his 20s, had a gunshot wound to his upper body that he had apparently suffered in the Tenderloin area, police said.
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A 44-year-old man is dead after being stabbed while at a homeless shelter in The City’s South of Market neighborhood, police said late Monday. It was the fourth homicide reported in San Francisco this year.The stabbing occurred about 7:10 p.m. Monday at 525 Fifth St., police reported. The incident is still under investigation, but the wound the victim suffered “proved fatal.”
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Four alleged gang members were ordered by a judge Wednesday to stand trial in connection with the 2009 slaying of a Louisiana man who prosecutors said was lured to the Bayview, robbed and shot dead while visiting The City.
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Reports of gunfire coming from a building in the South of Market district had a police SWAT team searching rooftops for gunmen Thursday night. It took two hours before two men were taken into custody, San Francisco police said.
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A botched attempt to kidnap and rob a woman in South of Market led a pair of apparently dim muggers to engage in a wild police chase Friday, injuring a pedestrian in a wheelchair and damaging several cars and a tree, police said.
Jesus Duran, 28, and Javier Perez, 27, both of San Francisco, are in custody and face multiple felony charges related to the incident.
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