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Jim’s owners retiring, leaving future of Mission diner unclear

The mom-and-pop owners of Jim’s Restaurant on Mission Street, a community staple for over three decades, will have their last day of work this Saturday, according to the restaurant.Jim’s Restaurant announced that its owners will be retiring after Saturday. It’s unclear, however, whether Jim’s will continue operating under new management. What is clear is it will no longer be the same without Ms. and Mr. Kim. The current owners, Kim Ok Un and Kim Jung Nyun, declined to comment about their retirement or whether Jim’s would continue operating.  An Instagram commenter says, “So so sooo happy for you guys!! So well deserved but Jim’s will never be the same without you”.Another says, “Legendary spot just up the street from KPOO. Thanks y’all for the decades of service to the community.”On Friday around noon, the restaurant at 2420 Mission St. between 20th and […]

Karl The Fog December 20, 2024

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Street sheet – Mission Local

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Karl The Fog December 19, 2024

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S.F. nonprofit saves 16 units for low-income tenants in Mission

So here’s a good-news San Francisco story. Luis Zeron, who works at a bakery, and his wife Sandra Martinez, who works at McDonalds, paid $2,100 last month for a one-bedroom unit on 14th Street across from the Armory. Going forward, their rent will drop by 21 percent to $1,650. That is thanks to the Community Land Trust’s recent purchase of the two-story, 16-unit building unit at 320 14th St. where the couple lives. “We feel safer,” said Zeron, beaming and noting that the broken windows in the living room they have called home since 2018 have, since the Community Land Trust came in, been replaced.Luis Zeron (left) and his wife Sandra Martinez (right). Photo by Xueer Lu. Dec. 5, 2024.Yes, there is more work to do — there is still mold on their bathroom towel rack and the bathroom needs new light […]

Karl The Fog December 7, 2024

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Planning Commission advances Mission anti-displacement plan

Read Mission Local often?If so, consider supporting us — San Francisco’s premier independent, nonprofit newsroom — during end-of-year fundraising. We’re almost at our $200,000 goal! The San Francisco Planning Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to endorse the Mission Action Plan 2030 — an updated version of the city’s existing plan to fight displacement in one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by gentrification.The plan, said Miriam Chion, the director of community equity at the planning department, “becomes the compass for city strategies, program legislation and investments.”  The new plan largely maintains the city’s current priorities for the Mission — “secure funding at all levels” to build affordable housing, strengthen tenant protections for “vulnerable Mission Latino residents,” protect businesses and nonprofits in the area, and “preserve and promote cultural resources” across the neighborhood. But, in a nod to changing post-pandemic conditions along the Mission’s […]

Karl The Fog December 6, 2024

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Mission hit-and-run driver makes U-turn, strikes woman, then flees

A woman appears to have escaped serious injury after being hit by a car on Shotwell and 21st streets at approximately 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim, a 21-year-old woman, was crossing Shotwell Street when another woman driving a gray Honda Accord hit her. The motorist was driving along 21st Street, made a wide U-turn at Shotwell, accelerated and ran into the victim, according to another driver who witnessed the incident and called the police. Three eyewitnesses separately told Mission Local that the driver intentionally rammed the pedestrian.  The motorist was traveling East on 21st St. when she made a U-turn at Shotwell St. The victim was crossing Shotwell St., heading East, when the car struck her. The motorist made another U-turn on Shotwell, before escaping on 21st St. The motorist was traveling East on 21st St. when she made a U-turn […]

Karl The Fog December 3, 2024

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Several Mission businesses, damaged in flooding, seek storm aid

Last week’s storm has passed, but issues linger with several businesses in the Mission.Medicine for Nightmares, a bookstore at 24th Street and Treat Avenue, is having a “slightly soggy book sale” following last Friday’s flooding. Water that came in through a leaky skylight damaged “a huge amount of our inventory,” said co-owner Josiah Luis Alderete. Alderete and around a dozen supporters from the “bookstore family” — patrons who consider the store home — threw away the books that were too damaged to save, and left the rest of the wet books at the rear of the store. That includes hundreds of titles on gender studies, environmental issues, and Asian-American and Pacific Islander history, among many others, available to those willing to pay what they can. Possessing a soggy book isn’t that strange, the bookstore says on Instagram. “Remember Roberto Bolaño used to take […]

Karl The Fog November 29, 2024

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Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the Mission bars open today.

The year is not yet over yet but, so far, 2024 has brought San Franciscans a federal, state and local election, and with it, reams of election propaganda for voters to sort out after a long days’ work. The elections turned out in such a manner as to ruin many a Thanksgiving dinner. But that is not all.This year saw the Dodgers win the World Series against the Yankees — no Giants fan wants to see that — and the winning team announced yesterday that it is signing Blake Snell, the Giants’ best pitcher in the second half of the season. And if you’re an Oakland A’s fan — hell, we’re sorry. So, if Thanksgiving dinner brings these conversations to the table, and surfaces the many emotions behind them, Mission Local has curated a list of bars in the Mission District and surrounding […]

Karl The Fog November 28, 2024

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Chase bank branch on 21st and Mission to shut down next week

A Chase branch, opened around 2011 at the corner of Mission and 21st streets, is slated to close permanently next Tuesday. On a drizzling Monday afternoon, about a dozen customers waited in the bank lobby at 2500 Mission St. During its busiest days, some 150 to 200 people visit the branch, sometimes more, said Sanjay Bhupthi, a security guard at the bank. Bhupthi started work two weeks ago, and faces uncertainty about his future shifts — he will work at other locations if his security company gets more contracts, he hoped. The Chase employees at the branch, he said, will be shifted to other branches. The Chase bank branch at 2500 Mission St. is closing on Dec. 3, 2024. Photo by Xueer Lu on Nov. 26, 2024. Closure notices were posted at the bank entrance, on ATM screens and at the counter, informing […]

Karl The Fog November 26, 2024

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Mission Local bags two Society of Professional Journalists awards

This here publication last week took home two more awards from the Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists for in-depth coverage and analysis of the sort you expect — and demand — of us. Senior editor Joe Rivano Barros and former data reporter Will Jarrett were honored in the “Explanatory Journalism” category for the mammoth effort of tracing and documenting the Russian dolls-like series of interconnected organizations funneling billionaires’ dollars into San Francisco politics. Joe Rivano Barros, who with Will Jarrett won for the Big Money SF work. Photo by Abigail Van NeelyThe series, titled “BigMoneySF,” included Rivano Barros’ profile of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, the largest donor over the last several election cycles, and Jarrett’s interactive chart, a stunning accomplishment requiring months of work unearthing reams of financial data structured in a manner so as to render it […]

Karl The Fog November 21, 2024

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‘Slow Streets, Fast Friends’ mural comes to 20th St. in the Mission

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Josue Rojas hovers in the air above the ground, gingerly balancing his stomach on a stool while holding his paintbrush in one hand, face towards the asphalt. He says it’s better than being on all fours. “It’s particularly brutal work,” says Rojas. “I’m on my knees six to eight hours a day and, now that I’m in my mid-40s, it’s not that easy to bear.” Rojas has spent the past week working between bursts of rain to create a street mural on 20th and Florida streets for the “Slow Streets, Fast Friends” project of the SF Parks Alliance nonprofit, which commissions murals on slow streets throughout the city.The mural was finished this past weekend, and now adorns the block where Atlas Cafe, the Southern […]

Karl The Fog November 20, 2024

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