This Week In Noe Valley: Fines For Real Food Blight, Google To Take Over The City, And Easy Breezy Is The Best Froyo

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

• Google may open a massive SF campus, which makes us wonder how workers will get there (public transit?) [SF Biz Times]
• Richard Brewer-Hay's kids do some cool stuff - this time appearing in a SF Bulls ad [esbale]
• Julia Turner of Slate loooooooves Noe Valley's Happy Donuts (skip to 46:36) [Slate Radio]
• The Real Foods space may not be occupied anytime soon, but at least Nutraceutical will pay the City for the blight [@bwalsh]
• This week's real estate porn: 1612 Church Street [Socketsite]
• Easy Breezy wins an international frozen yogurt award (no really!) [PR Log]
• A brief history of the wood sculpture at the top of Clipper [Art & Architecture SF]

[Photo: thesamekz]

This Week In Noe Valley: Empire On 24th St, Gambling On Renovations, And Angst About Google

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

• Buttons Candy Bar rounds out a mini empire on 24th St [Racked SF]
• Nice roundup of large scale projects in San Francisco that were never realized [Urban Life Signs]
• It was a relatively quiet month for home sales in September [Downing & Co]
• Reno and flip on Dolores asking $2.875M, developer takes credit for plans approved 3 years before developer bought the house [SF Gate]
• Another Dwell-ified Victorian practically across the street on Dolores has cut $200k from the asking price [Curbed SF]
• All this has Germans worried about Google gentrifying "Hippies und Flower Power" out of Noe Valley [tagesschau.de]

[Photo: Halloween on Jersey St, NVSF]

Missing Comments Mystery

For those who are wondering... the missing comments reported in some of the posts today is a Blogger software problem, not a plaza/parklet demon. It should be resolved by now - if not, let us know in the comments.

Fun with Analytics: Google Club

Every so often we dig through Google Analytics to see how people find us. Today we found a new highlight:

Search keywords: Noe Valley Google Club

Is there really a Google Club? What do they do? Play poker? Plot hackathons? Sing a cappella? Stage baby stroller races? Swap cupcake recipes? Plan Google Bus routes/stops...?

Opinions? Snark? Speculation? In the comments, please.