This Week In Noe Valley: Twitter IPO Real Estate Angst, Crime Rolls Downhill, and Where Locals Eat

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• With the Twitter IPO "expect home prices to go up, especially in and around Noe Valley" [ABC Local]
• "OH: 'Once we go public, we'll be in the 1%' #noevalley" [@karlsf]
• On the Bay Bridge opening: "In the year 2113, when our descendants celebrate the bridge's centennial, $6.4 billion might be enough to buy a nice house in Noe Valley." [SF Gate]
• But for now you can rent this mattress for $2,100 [@mikeindustries]
• Crime doesn't climb in SF (which is why buying on a hill isn't just about the view) [Socketsite]
• How SF maps to Seattle: Noe Valley = Ravenna? [Geekwire]
• Modern Market at 1401 Church Street posts a permit for transfer of ownership [CA ABC]
• Apartment fire on Clipper St [@nelson]
• Bernie's makes this top 10 best coffee shops list, but the quoted reviewer clearly doesn't know Bernie [Stuff]
• Where the locals eat in SF – La Ciccia makes the list [USA Today]

[Photo: "Between the Mission and Noe Valley, my shadow is the length of an entire block," Wndrlost]

Survey: Design Your Corner Store

Sunshine Market at 4300 23rd Street wants to overhaul its one-review/one-star rating on Yelp. An Alvarado area neighbor forwarded this plea:

Sunshine Market at 23rd and Douglass is getting an overhaul. They are going to be re-stocking the store and wanted input as to what was needed. Below please find a link to a survey. Please fill out asap and pass on to others in the neighborhood.

Stellar Research Survey

[Photo: Google Street View]

Live The Dream: Prime Corner Space For Lease

For lease: 3751 24th Street at Chattanooga. "Wonderful Hi Visibility Commercial Space ... 20+ foot ceilings ... Corner locations are prime and rarely available ... all the foot traffic in Noe Valley must walk by the space to get to 24th Street/Mission transportation."

Now that the moratorium on new Noe Valley restaurants has lifted you could open your own cafe with a parklet out front (with soon-to-be-easier permit process), or leave it as is and operate your own cigarette / malt liquor / lottery ticket market. At $5500/month, a yoga studio, nails/waxing or children's art studio doesn't seem viable.

All that assuming you can handle dealing with the landlord. Looks like he/she will have no problem airing your dirty laundry: "It is currently being used as a small grocery/liquor store J&J Grocery, their lease is done January 2011, possibly sooner because they are having internal conflict with their management."

[Craiglist: NOE VALLEY Store Front Commercial/Corner Location]
[StreetsBlogSF: PARK(ing) and Parklet Day: Reclaiming the Curb for People]

Ode to the SLM

Lotto? Check. Thunderbird? Check. Pack of cigs for the kids? Check. Late-night munchies? Got you covered. Cheap sandwiches with no pretense? Got that too. Everything you can't get at Whole Foods. Fact is, we visit these corner stores when everywhere else is closed, or when we can’t walk more than 75 steps for a carton of milk or stick of butter. These (in the words of a coworker from long ago) “shitty little markets” (SLMs) are scattered throughout Noe. You have to wonder, are they disappearing as Noe evolves, will they adapt or will they always have a place just as they are?

A few SLMs from around the hood:

1401 Church St at 26th St

1601 Church St at 28th St

1598 Sanchez at 29th St

1001 Castro St at 22nd St