Author: lauraw

Painting with Mission Colors

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jun 25, 2018 | People We Meet

Jessica Joy Jirsa paints urban landscapes from the Mission and San Francisco. She gets to know...

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Citizen ideal for crime watchers, but not crime stoppers — by design

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission, Trouble

Let’s say you’re at work and your phone buzzes. You pick it up expecting your 100th email or text...

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SF developer plans a nonprofit to build affordable housing faster

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jan 23, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Government isn’t moving fast enough on building housing, say developers Joe and Joey Toboni, so...

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Meet the woman turning a nonprofit into a developer of affordable housing

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jan 3, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

In her four years working in the real estate arm of the Mission Economic Development Agency,...

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Developments in Development: More and less

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 31, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning...

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Cosmetology school closes permanently

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 29, 2017 | Business, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Clients looking for a new look that’s easy on the wallet may be in for an unpleasant...

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New SF Mission resident’s first project: Cleaning up trash

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 29, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Jeff Winkle has a job working for a bank, but he’s getting ready to start picking up trash....

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Noisebridge, facing displacement, plans to come back bigger and better

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 28, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Being booted by August 2018 is not the first existential threat that the quirky,...

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Developments in Development: Drops in the bucket

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 24, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning...

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Robbers reportedly injure victim in shooting at Mission St. business

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 22, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

A person was injured in a robbery and shooting inside Mission Loan and Pawnbrokers near 19th...

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Neighborhood Notes: CCSF aids undocumented students; Tacoless Tuesdays; Robot removal

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 22, 2017 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

City College pledges support for undocumented City College’s Board of Trustees set aside more than...

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Developer facing appeal says he’ll “shut down forever” activist “racket”

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 22, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Activists intend to file an environmental appeal on a project that would build 75 units of housing...

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Fort Point brewpub can open at 20th and Shotwell

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 22, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Planning Commissioners on Thursday narrowly approved a proposal for a microbrewery and restaurant...

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A new voice leading the Community Music Center

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 21, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Music, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Julie Rulyak Steinberg has taken the helm of the Community Music Center on Capp Street, assuming...

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Ronen wants answers on mental health beds and 16th Street BART station

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 21, 2017 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Mission Local checked in this week with Hillary Ronen about her first year on the job as District...

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Nonprofit buys decaying building at 18th and Mission streets

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 19, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

A derelict building at 18th and Mission streets owned by a former Facebook executive that has been...

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