SF Sunday Streets large format returns this fall, announces smaller Rise Together programs
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A group of people cross a street at a crosswalk, San Francisco, California, September 4, 2016. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
SAN FRANCISCO - Sunday Streets returns to San Francisco in October, city officials announced on Monday. But there’s plenty of city sanctioned opportunity to safely enjoy the outdoors in the meantime.
The announcement by Mayor London Breed, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director Jeffrey Tumlin and the nonprofit Liveable City said until then, residents can enjoy small-format programming starting in April as part of the Rise Together season programming. These are car-free, health-order compliant spaces throughout the city’s neighborhoods.
Ben Hampton, a Georgia barbeque restaurant owner, said in May he was operating at a loss. We re just making enough to keep our lights on and, you know, keep our four employees employed, said the Satterfield s BBQ owner.
Around the same time, Audrey Perry, a furloughed coffee shop employee, said she was making ends meet with unemployment benefits enhanced by the first federal stimulus bill.
But the uncertainty of what comes next had her worried. How long is this gonna go on? she asked. Nobody has any answers and it s just, no one knows and I m still not working.
Months later, many are still experiencing those same anxieties all across the country.
Sup. Peskin tells Far East Cafe owner to hang in there for relief
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SF Chinatown restaurants struggling to survive, but relief could be on the way
San Francisco Chinatown is unnaturally quiet just days before Christmas. The merchants association says in an 8-block stretch, only 45 stores out of 200 are open. Supervisor Aaron Peskin has told at least one restaurant set to close to hang on for a relief plan in the works.
SAN FRANCISCO - Help may be on the way for one of San Francisco s oldest restaurants. The owner of Chinatown s iconic Far East Cafe was planning to shut down permanently Dec. 31, because of the challenges brought on by the pandemic.
S.F. proposes $1.9 million in relief for Chinatown restaurants
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Shuttered businesses line Grant Avenue in S.F.’s Chinatown in August, months into the pandemic.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
San Francisco Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Sandra Lee Fewer introduced legislation during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting that would pay Chinatown restaurants to cook meals for older adults and families living in single-room-occupancy hotels through Chinatown Community Development Center’s Feed and Fuel program.
“We’re witnessing the potential loss of one of the last intact Chinatowns in the United States . not only to the debilitating economic impacts of COVID, but to what I call the triple threat: COVID, the Central Subway delays that have been going on for years, as well as the fact that Chinatown was actually impacted earlier by COVID than the rest of the city,” Peskin said at the meeting.
S.F. Chinatown may be lost forever : Leaders plead for more financial aid from city
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Businesses closed along Grant Avenue in Chinatown on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
Chinatown community leaders are calling on Mayor London Breed to provide financial aid to the historic neighborhood’s restaurants and small businesses, arguing many won’t survive the pandemic without millions of dollars in grants and investment.
In a letter sent on Monday, nine organizations asked Breed to support Chinatown as the city has supported the Latino community during the pandemic. They want $5.3 million in grants to help Chinatown small businesses keep employees on payroll; $4.2 million to partner with a nonprofit like SF New Deal to work specifically with Chinatown restaurants to feed the neighborhood’s most vulnerable residents; and $2 million to go toward revitalizing Chinatown tourism after the pandemic.