The long-vacant former Barneys store in Union Square is getting a new lease on life sfstandard.com/2025/11/04/bar…

Scoop from Kevin V. Nguyen and myself: Ikea's parent company is ending its partnership with the British firm that had been overseeing its struggling dining complex, Saluhall, since its launch sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/ike…

!!! A new bookstore is coming to Union Square — and right on Powell Street no less Exciting exclu from tomorrow's canceled sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/ew-…

Mayor Lurie picks a 29-year-old former pet store owner to represent the Sunset as its new supervisor after Joel Engardio's bitter recall sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/lur…

"The beach lovers’ initiative is part of a pattern: If the feds can’t get their act together, San Franciscans will just do it themselves." sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/swi…

I sat with Kaz Nejatian yesterday to discuss his vision for the new Opendoor. In his view, the company lost its way after the pandemic. He's already implemented sweeping changes, but chief amongst them is getting $OPEN back to building products. 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/ope…

Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their names sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/buy…

Charming dispatch about singles night at San Francisco’s hot new club. (It’s a Costco) sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/sin…

Lots of 'big yikes' moments in this story from Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler, including that even its owner before Alcaraz seemed shocked by the new owner's videos — "Dead critters, filthy cages: New Sunset supervisor left pet store in squalor, owner says" sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/san…

San Francisco is being swamped by an ‘unprecedented’ property tax backlog sfstandard.com/2025/11/13/sf-…

Went on ABC7 News to talk about the downtown ambassador program that's cutting 911 calls at Embarcadero & Montgomery BART stations in half. Read more here: sfstandard.com/2025/11/13/dow…

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Good scoop from Alex Barreira: A Dallas-based investor just bought another prominent Union Square building 👀 bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n…

Big news! The The San Francisco Standard just launched the first episode of its new podcast Pacific Standard Time, hosted by Emily Dreyfuss and Jesse Alejandro Cottrell 🎉 Give the fascinating first episode a listen here: sfstandard.com/pacific-standa…

SF chefs are mortified by their own menu prices sfstandard.com/2025/11/19/san…

California has positioned itself as a national haven for reproductive care. But inside the state’s Catholic hospitals — which account for nearly 1/3 of all beds — pregnant patients report being denied life-saving miscarriage care. sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/cal…

This SF couple made a maaajor alley-oops sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/san…

San Francisco police ramp up late-night drug raids to appease Trump and feds sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/sfp…

More changes on the horizon for Ikea's Saluhall, Market Street's struggling food hall sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/sal…