A visualization of the proposed project by DM Development and Handel Architects

Hello Readers:

There’s a new development that appears to have approval – the project would include 64 studios, 37 one-bedroom units, 67 two-bedroom units and a 1,500-square-foot retail space on the ground floor that will be given, free of cost, to Community Arts Stabilization Trust, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that acquires land for use by artists or art organizations. 

In other news:

  • There’s hiring going on at some community nonprofits.
  • A push for outreach to vaccinate homeless residents
  • A gala coming up in March at the Community Music Center
  • And a big disagreement about the Zeitgeist burger

If you have views on the burger, add them in the comments or send them directly to info@missionlocal.com.

— Lydia

Stories

Florida Street parking lot will become 168 units of housing

The San Francisco Planning Commission approved a 168-unit residential building Thursday.

Jobs open up at community nonprofits

The unemployment rate remains high at 8.4 percent, but as vaccine distribution continues, businesses and jobs are opening up.

Neighborhood Notes: local crowdfunding efforts and a spring gala

Community Music Center’s Virtual Spring Gala.

Burger Wars visits Zeitgeist

It’s a name that conjures the Mission from a foggy past; a place where you might run into a ghost from the Beat era, or a straggling spirit from the old Picaro, the Macondo, or the Café Barbar; a place brimming over with hippie philosophers and activist poets; a place that would serve a burger that would give me something I could really get my teeth into.

Covid Tracker: 33,910 cases, 410 deaths

The vaccination pace has picked up. As of February 25, 20 percent (149,646) of San Francisco residents over 16 have received one dose, while  8 percent (57,551) have received two. 

How will San Francisco vaccinate its homeless population?

Homeless residents talk about why they distrust the vaccine.

Just a snap.

Ramona tuft

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

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