This Week In Noe Valley: Town Square Opens and Halloween Noe Valley Style

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Just in time for Halloween – the Noe Valley Town Square is here [CBS Local]
• Photo: From a gas station to a parking lot to a park [@SFParksAlliance]
• Peak Noe Valley [@johnsharkman]
• Halloween, Noe Valley style [@Spitter17]
• Noe Valley is still tops for trick-or-treating [SFGate]
• Odd: Cherry blossoms blooming in October [@StevePaulsonKTVU]
• Bom Dia Market is scheduled for final inspection on Halloween – will it come back to life? [NVSF] 
• Closed: Le Zinc [@rosewinegrl]
• Shocker: Cow Hollow’s Real Food Co closes abruptly [Hoodline]
• Noe Valley Bakery opens a 2nd location in West Portal [@noevalleybakery]
• Hamlet adds oysters [hamlet_sf]

[Photo: Town Square via @colazioneAroma]

This Week in Noe Valley: Orange October and Blue Angels

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Scott Wiener and Jane Kim in a dead heat for Senate race [SF Chronicle]
• Noe Valley “wildlife” [emichbe]
• Town Square will open Oct 29 at 10AM [@noevalleytownsq]
• Hello, Blue Angels [awelfle]
• Believen #gogiants
• A love letter to the always awesome Omnivore Books [Hoodline]
• A Noe Valley story circa 1974 [@MrsWen]

[Photo: Orange Oct via gregor701]

NVV Oct 2016: We Read It So You Don't Have To

The Noe Valley Voice is published ten times a year and has been a neighborhood fixture since 1977. Here are notable highlights from the latest issue. Links are to stories we've covered here on NVSF or other resources. Follow the NVV link at the bottom for full articles and all the ads.

October 2016

Front Page: The Noe Valley Library is 100 years old; Some Noe Valley restaurants are thriving (Fresca, Contigo, La Ciccia, Firefly, Hamano, NoVY) - others not so much (Savor's owner says he can no longer offers table service and is just waiting for the lease to expire to move to the peninsula); Noe Valley Town Square plans to open Oct 29 and the Farmer's Market will move in Nov. 5.

Letters: A neighbor writes in to urge you to vote for Prop I.

Features: Real Foods is still empty, 13 years on; volunteers are planning a second Grand View green space cleanup on Nov. 5.

Cost of Living in Noe: The home market is still cooling but only 8 single family homes traded hands in August. The average cost of a home is $2.6 million.

Store Trek: La PanotiQ Bakery Cafe, 4018 24th Street

Rumors and Tidbits: See Jane Run is closed and the building is for sale for $3.3 million; Walkershaw Man closed and has turned over as Azil Boutique jewelry; the old Bliss Bar space is still for rent; Video Wave is taking over the entire Buttons Bar space and running a GoFundMe campaign. The old Common Scents space is now Monroe, a woman's clothing boutique. The former In-House space across the street is becoming an art gallery and will open Nov 6. The Cradle of the Sun space has been rented to a real estate firm (ugh). Drewes Brothers Meats closed in August and the landlord/owner reports he is close to signing a tenant that plans a meat market in the space; no other details were offered. The Noe Courts space is still under construction. The Noe Valley Girls Film Festival was a success. The Noe Valley Ministry is hosting a gala on Oct 27.

[The Noe Valley Voice]

This Week in Noe Valley: Bikeshare Coming, Walkershaw Leaving and Other Signs of September

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Walkershaw Man is closing at the end of the month [Walkershaw Man]
• A touching story about a Noe Valley family, the Giants and Alzheimer’s [NY Times]
• Free days for city residents by neighborhood at Cal Academy of Sciences [SF Station]
• SF’s cheapest and most expensive neighborhoods for renters – Noe Valley is in the middle [SF Business Journal]
• Noe Valley people are boujie – and like to call tow trucks (says the person who tweets she constantly gets parking tickets) [@HanneFrank]
• Noe Valley gala to support local arts on Oct 27 [Noe Valley Gala]
• Free adult color night on Oct 18 at Folio– with wine [FunCheapSF]
• Bay Area homes sell twice as fast as U.S. average [SF Business Journal]
• Bay Area Bikeshare stations coming to Noe Valley [Hoodline]
• Noe Valley – where schools have valet parking? [@MikeLewis]
• Photo of 22nd and Fair Oaks, 1988 [@DavidGallagher]
• Photo of 94131 in the 1970s [@RedLips769]
• Town Square progress in a photo [lizatblackrose]

[Photo: Cloud drama via artbyamanda33]

This Week in Noe Valley: Noe Library Turns 100, Tax Shaming NIMBYs and James Lick Was a Fascinating Guy

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Outdoor movie night at the Upper Noe Valley Rec Center on Sept 17 at 7pm ft Inside Out [NVRC]
• Portrait of the charming 2 bedroom in Noe Valley that sold two years ago for $1.85M [@zamosta]
• Noe Valley Library turns 100 on Sept 17, 12-4pm – party, prizes and food [@SFPublicLibrary]
• Tax shaming activist NIMBYs [kimmaicutler]
• Drastic price cuts for the Noe Valley net zero emissions megahome at 2127 Castro [SocketSite]
• Naked crazy man incident. 7 cop cars and 1 cop injured. [@ryangoodman]
• Video Wave does not want to close - but Buttons Candy Bar in the same space is vacating after Halloween [@bradfitz]
• SF Board of Education President Matt Haney wants to nix the name James Lick [College Fix]
• Never mind that James Lick was a pretty fascinating self-made Gold Rush pioneer and philanthropist – who gave away his entire fortune for public good [Wikipedia]

[Photo: Sunrise via hanskarr310]

This Week in Noe Valley: Labor Day = Real Foods Day, Town Square Update and Noe Valley’s Google Bus Activist

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• It’s Labor Day in Noe Valley [@BMWalter]
• My Real Foods story [@mysticflavor]
• Permeable pavers arrive at the Town Square site – with photos [SF Rec & park]
• Car delivery bottoms out on Noe St. [@nickoneill]
• Biting local satire in the old Cradle of the Sun [@coreywilkerson]
• Top 5 neighborhoods in SF with a view – Noe Valley makes the list, natch [SF Hotlist]
• ICYMI: See Jane Run is closing for real [NVSF]
• Noe Valley resident Edward Mason has filed 69 of the 296 comments about the tech shuttle buses – from the Noe Valley library [The Guardian]
• The ongoing California wildfires make for some amazing summer sunsets [hotzntotz, mitali and ozyoztboy]

[Photo: Cotton candy skies via mayapburne]

NVV Sept 2016: We Read It So You Don't Have To

The Noe Valley Voice is published ten times a year and has been a neighborhood fixture since 1977. Here are notable highlights from the latest issue. Links are to stories we've covered here on NVSF or other resources. Follow the NVV link at the bottom for full articles and all the ads.

September 2016

Front Page: Noe Valley Girls Film Fest is coming Sept 10; Lovejoy's owners sold their tea shop to three new proprietors who will keep the tradition alive; James Lick Middle School is renting its parking lot to the Noe Valley Farmer's Market starting Sept. 10 to attract more shoppers to local businesses.

Letters: Former NV resident Vivian Murray reminisces about living in the same building as Janis Joplin at 892 Noe St. and says she'll be back for the Summer of Love 50th Anniversary Concert next October.

Features: James Lick renovations should be done by the end of September.

Cost of Living in Noe: The home market is cooling slightly - most home sales are only 3 percent over asking, not 22 percent. The average cost of a home: $2.3 million.

Store Trek: BistroSF Grill, 1305 Castro St. near 24th

Rumors and Tidbits: The Noe Valley Town Square is on track to open by Halloween; there will be no Harvest Fest this year; this Labor Day marks the 13th year since Real Foods closed; construction at the old Bliss Bar space is underway, but don't expect a noodle bar to fill it after all - the space is actively for rent for $9500 a month; the old Cradle of the Sun space is still vacant and the rent is now $7000 per month; just 3 years in, Buttons Candy Bar will close after Halloween - and Video Wave which shares the space is hoping to work out a deal to stay; Spring Pilates has relocated (no agreement on rent) to the EHS Pilates space on Valencia; See Jane Run is closing; GoHealth Urgent Care hopes to open in the new space on 24th St near Shoe Biz; La PanotiQ is open; Hamlet has rebooted; Drewe's Meats has been evicted; Tacolicious had to move out of it's office space on Church St. (Ed note: and Little Artistas has moved in); Uma Casa is slated to open at the end of October in the former Incanto space. The movie The Royal Road (available at Video Wave) features lots of shots of the hood. The 30th St Senior has received a $50,000 grant and Cliche Noe Gifts has been selected for the 2016 Best Businesses of San Francisco Award.

[The Noe Valley Voice]

Store Closing: See Jane Run

Back in March of this year, See Jane Run at 3910 24th Street posted signs that it was closing its Noe Valley store - the owners of the building had decided not to renew the lease. SJR eventually signed a 6 month extension - but the time is up and See Jane Run is out. A sign in the window announces the sad news:

Store Closing

Everything must go

We are sorry that are landlords will not let us stay at this location as they sell the building. We are forced to leave on September 3oth. We will continue to look for a new space.

Please get on our mailing list for updates.

Thank you Noe Valley for 16 great years. 

We will miss you.

All products are on sale. Please stop in and say good bye.

Sad to see yet another storefront on 24th Street go vacant.