Mid-Market News and Notes

Wednesday morning, people along eastern parts of Mid-Market received flowers courtesy of the San Francisco Welcome Ambassadors. The pleasant touch is part of the Bloom SF campaign to welcome office workers and tourists back to downtown. You can also find large bouquet displays, and events like lunchtime DJs, throughout the city, including at Hallidie Plaza and Westfield Mall.

Also on Market Street, Whole Foods has opened, with significant foot traffic going in and out of the massive grocery store, which is full of goodies and worthy lunch options from the buffet and deli.

Exciting news from Proper Hotel: Villon will open again for dinner starting April 7th, the first time in two years. In the meantime, their sidewalk al fresco tapas experience, La Bande is not to be missed and makes a perfect pre-show experience.

Speaking of shows, Fefu and Her Friends by Cuban American playwright Maria Irene Fornés runs from MAR 24–MAY 1, 2022 at ACT’s Strand Theater. The ‘rapturous comedy drama’ has been called a game changer and an innovation of immersive theater. We’re hearing great things about the production, check it out! Get your tickets here.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health and Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, in collaboration with other City agencies, are seeking to extend the lease of the Tenderloin Linkage Center at 1170 & 1172 Market Street (at UN Plaza). A neighborhood and community stakeholder meeting to discuss the operations of the Linkage Center and the potential extension of the project will take place April 1st. This proposed lease extension will be heard by the Board of Supervisors no earlier than Tuesday April 19, 2022.

Friday April 1^st 12:00pm-1:30pm

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND LOGIN TO THE MEETING

What's Next for the Tenderloin Emergency Initiative? While Mayor Breed did not seek an extension of the state of emergency declaration, operations launched via the initiative are slated to continue to June, with the addition of approximately 20 SFPD officers from other districts assigned to the area for a period of 30 days to mid-April. As part of the announced continuation sans declaration, the city launched a series of new dashboards related to the efforts and outcomes of the initiative. You can find the dashboards here. MMBA&F staff are working with the City as community partners in support continued focus on the neighborhood.

The most recently proposed maps put forth and approved by the Redistricting Taskforce Members and their consultants, which are tasked with deciding the new supervisor districts as part of the legal requirement to balance populations in each district every ten years, have caused considerable concern community members along Mid-Market and the Tenderloin. While the current map is not final, many have argued that it divides communities of interest within the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and SoMa.

Redistricting Website

Current Redistricting Map Proposals

Remaining meetings in the redistricting process: You can watch on www.sfgovtv.org and call in:

• LINK: Saturday April 2nd, 10am - Virtual or City Hall Room 400
• Monday, April 4th, 5:30pm - Virtual or City Hall Room 408
• Wednesday April 6th, 5:30pm - Virtual or City Hall Room 416
• Friday, April 8th, 3pm - Virtual or City Hall Room 416
• Saturday, April 9th, 10am - Virtual or City Hall Room 400
• Monday, April 11th, 5:30pm - Virtual or City Hall Room 416
• Wednesday, April 13th, 3pm - Virtual or City Hall Room 406

Our Community Based Safety Program in partnership with Urban Alchemy is continuing with a phased expansion to provide a more consistent, contiguous presence throughout Mid-Market and the Tenderloin. Recent deployments have expanded presence to the northeast corner of 7^th and Market Streets, the 400 and 500 blocks of Eddy Street, unit block of Turk Street, southeast corner of 8^th and Market Streets, and the 1000 block of Market Street. Urban Alchemy Practitioners are at fixed posts from 7am to 7pm, 7 days per week. Learn more here.

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The Mid-Market Business Association and Foundation are dedicated to improving the public realm of the Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhood. The purpose of this survey is to assess how the Mid-Market/Tenderloin community is feeling about the safety of the neighborhood over the past 6 months of Urban Alchemy deployment. 

The survey is anonymous and your name and email will not be shared. Please share this survey link with others who are familiar with the neighborhood.

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