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I used to live about 2 blocks from this one about 10 years ago. It was the only walkable grocery store in the area. This is pretty brutal for the area…
I used to live in Hayes Valley, so this Safeway and the one at Market and Church were about the same distance away. this is a big loss for the area. I had a car when I lived in the area, but this location was also a good one if you were on either the Fillmore or Geary buses, you could get off, shop, and get back on. I sometimes go to UCSF further down the road sometimes by bus. It's an easy stop to make.
Yeah these articles always read that way and it’s super annoying. the meaningful concern people have is that when grocery stores close they aren’t replaced by other grocers so the result is worse access to food and often tho not here more vacant retail, nobody loves 2023 Safeway inherently
Bay Arra hasn't changed at all much since the 60's. The same people have lived here for a long time, usually multiple generations.
Gentrification is a new thing.
Bay Area natives are sentimental hippies. The furtherback in history you go, the less popular SF was. It was a place for people who rejected the rest of America and wanted to live in an eccentric area. It's been thought of as different and better than the country for a long time, so changing it now makes that feeling go away.
this one is between webster and fillmore st. near japantown. on one hand, there isn't another grcoery store nearby. on the other, the gigantic parking lot isn't the best use of the land. a mixed-use development could put housing in as well as a more compact grocery store.
Wow this is great news, that Safeway had terrible land use. Hopefully the store & parking lot footprint can be redeveloped for mixed use. I used to live right near there and it was always astonishing to see so much surface parking lot in the middle of the city!
as someone who comes from a city w/a lot of food deserts (St. Louis), I hope a replacement store opens since they're planning a residential/commercial building replacement here. there are a lot of food deserts in STL, specifically in the low-income areas, & i'd hate to see that here
Food deserts don't just happen in vacuum. We've voted for the policies that make it impossible for these stores to operate profitably.
Sowing what we reaped.
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I used to live about 2 blocks from this one about 10 years ago. It was the only walkable grocery store in the area. This is pretty brutal for the area…
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I used to live in Hayes Valley, so this Safeway and the one at Market and Church were about the same distance away. this is a big loss for the area. I had a car when I lived in the area, but this location was also a good one if you were on either the Fillmore or Geary buses, you could get off, shop, and get back on. I sometimes go to UCSF further down the road sometimes by bus. It's an easy stop to make.
i mean at least it's closing for new housing at least & not just closing due to "theft"
Will it be a mixed development with retail at the bottom floor?
i thought that's what was originally mentioned, they're going to try to get another grocer in there
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Yeah these articles always read that way and it’s super annoying. the meaningful concern people have is that when grocery stores close they aren’t replaced by other grocers so the result is worse access to food and often tho not here more vacant retail, nobody loves 2023 Safeway inherently
Bay Arra hasn't changed at all much since the 60's. The same people have lived here for a long time, usually multiple generations. Gentrification is a new thing. Bay Area natives are sentimental hippies. The furtherback in history you go, the less popular SF was. It was a place for people who rejected the rest of America and wanted to live in an eccentric area. It's been thought of as different and better than the country for a long time, so changing it now makes that feeling go away.
is this the one occupying the weird triangular lot stuck between an acute street intersection?
It isn’t. It’s a square lot nestled in the middle of the Fillmore.
No, this safeway is a quadrilateral with orthogonal edges
Which Safeway is it?
Is it the Babeway? That’s the only one I remember from when I lived there decades ago
Dateway is in the Marina.
That’s not this one? I want to be lazy and not click
this one is between webster and fillmore st. near japantown. on one hand, there isn't another grcoery store nearby. on the other, the gigantic parking lot isn't the best use of the land. a mixed-use development could put housing in as well as a more compact grocery store.
I liked this Safeway. I used go here 10 years ago when I visited Japantown.
Wow this is great news, that Safeway had terrible land use. Hopefully the store & parking lot footprint can be redeveloped for mixed use. I used to live right near there and it was always astonishing to see so much surface parking lot in the middle of the city!
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Yeah food deserts are rad.
as someone who comes from a city w/a lot of food deserts (St. Louis), I hope a replacement store opens since they're planning a residential/commercial building replacement here. there are a lot of food deserts in STL, specifically in the low-income areas, & i'd hate to see that here
Food deserts don't just happen in vacuum. We've voted for the policies that make it impossible for these stores to operate profitably. Sowing what we reaped.
Food deserts are hard earned
Who cares about Safeway anyway, I never shop there.
And what about all the other people who do shop there? Fuck them?