South of Market tenants can expect another new neighbor in their up-and-coming neighborhood.The University of the Pacific plans to move its Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry to the increasingly popular neighborhood in 2014 because officials want a central location, according to Richard Rojo, associate vice president for marketing and university communications.
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A San Francisco jury Tuesday acquitted a homeless, wheelchair-bound man with mental health issues of stabbing a police officer in January, in a high-profile case captured on bystander video that showed officers subsequently shooting the man multiple times.
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A 25-year-old man is recovering after being attacked and left unconscious and bleeding in the street during a “large-scale melee” outside a South of Market nightclub early Sunday, police said.Officers were called to a club in the 600 block of Mission Street just before 12:30 a.m. after multiple witnesses reported a fight involving about 30 to 40 people in the street, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.
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The SoMa landmark is slated for an ambitious expansion that will claim new space underground and possibly entice more high-profile — and high-spending — conventions to come to San Francisco. Over the past 30 years, the city-owned Moscone Convention Center has helped turn the once-gritty South of Market neighborhood into a red-hot destination. Almost 1 million conventioneers each year visit the sprawling center.
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Hundreds of protesters lined the streets in San Francisco outside the hotel where President Barack Obama held a fundraiser Tuesday.
The demonstrators lined the corners of Howard and Third streets in San Francisco in opposition to everything from war and budget cuts to a proposed transcontinental oil pipeline and the federal government’s crackdown on medical marijuana.
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Streets are closed and traffic is congested in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood today in preparation for President Barack Obama's visit to The City for a campaign fundraiser, police said.
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Eight people were seriously injured when a minivan broadsided a sedan in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood early this morning, a police spokesman said.The drivers of both cars were arrested on suspicion of DUI after the crash, which was reported at 12:39 a.m. at 10th and Howard streets, police Sgt. Daryl Fong said.Fong said a van containing two people was speeding south on 10th Street when it ran a red light and struck a sedan that had six people in it.
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The Filipino and LGBT communities are entrenched in the history of the western South of Market area, but establishing special districts for them has created a rift in the neighborhood. The Western SoMa Community Plan, presented to the Planning Commission on Thursday, would establish development guidelines and design standards for a 205-acre area loosely bordered by Mission, Third, Townsend and 13th streets.
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San Francisco’s top lawyer might be out of a job representing The City’s proposed Central Subway.
City attorney and mayoral hopeful Dennis Herrera recently opposed the $1.6 billion project to extend Muni’s T-Third line from SoMA to Chinatown, saying it is overpriced and won’t serve enough people.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will meet with local neighbors and business leaders on Wednesday to discuss planning upgrades for the eastern South of Market area neighborhood.
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