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Haight-Ashbury

KEXP Music Hub Planned for Haight and Ashbury Corner — But Six Small Businesses Could Lose Their Storefronts

SF Heritage has selected Seattle radio nonprofit KEXP and the Blue Bear School of Music to transform the historic Doolan-Larson Building into a broadcast studio, music school, and rooftop concert venue — a plan that has alarmed the merchants currently occupying its ground floor.

San Francisco Heritage has chosen KEXP, the Seattle-based nonprofit public radio station, and the Blue Bear School of Music as partners to reimagine the historic Doolan-Larson Building at the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets into a music and cultural hub. The announcement, first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on September 17 and confirmed by multiple outlets, envisions a broadcast studio for Bay Area radio programming, a full floor of music classrooms for Blue Bear, a flexible street-level gathering space, and a rooftop venue capable of hosting around 100…

Haight-Ashbury

HANC Meets Tonight to Dissect 'Fatal Flaws' in Lurie's Citywide Rezoning Plan

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's October general meeting focuses on Mayor Lurie's upzoning proposal — which passed the Planning Commission 4–3 in September and now heads to the Board of Supervisors — and on charter reform ballot measures ahead of the November 3 election.

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council holds its October general membership meeting tonight, Thursday October 9, at 7:00 p.m. in a hybrid format. The session is devoted to Mayor Lurie's sweeping rezoning proposal — what HANC describes as the largest city-initiated rezoning in San Francisco in 50 years, covering the entire Haight-Ashbury and most of western and central San Francisco.

PG&E

SF Demands State Probe of 40 PG&E Blackouts — Haight-Ashbury Among the Hardest Hit Neighborhoods

City leaders sent a letter to state regulators this week documenting 40 large-scale PG&E outages since December, including a March blackout that cut power to 14,000 customers from the Castro to Haight-Ashbury and a Golden Gate Park-area outage as recently as October 6.

San Francisco city leaders filed a letter with the California Public Utilities Commission on October 8 demanding a state investigation into PG&E's reliability record. According to the letter, there have been 40 large-scale blackouts — each affecting more than 1,000 customers — since the December 20 disaster that darkened roughly one-third of the city, a pace of nearly one outage per week. The Haight-Ashbury and surrounding neighborhoods have been repeatedly affected.

Upcoming Events

Friday, October 9

HANC General Membership Meeting: Rezoning & November Election

📍 Hybrid — see hanc-sf.org for in-person and Zoom details · 7:00 PM · Verify · Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council

Friday, October 9

Free Fleet Week Concert: US Navy Band Southwest Brass Band

📍 Spreckels Temple of Music (Golden Gate Park Bandshell) · 12:00 PM–1:00 PM · Verify · Funcheap SF

Saturday, October 10

Haight-NoPa Repair Café

📍 Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street, Haight-Ashbury · 2:00 PM–4:30 PM (last entry 4:00 PM) · Verify · Haight-NOPA Repair Cafe

Saturday–Sunday, October 10–11

SF Botanical Garden California Natives Plant Sale

📍 SF Botanical Garden Main Gate, Golden Gate Park · 10:00 AM–5:30 PM · Verify · Gardens of Golden Gate Park

Saturday, October 10

Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park

📍 Golden Gate Park (see gggp.org for meeting point) · Various times · Verify · Gardens of Golden Gate Park

More from the Community

Pasta Supply Co. Targeting October Opening at 919 Cole St. in Cole Valley

Chef Anthony Strong announced in August 2026 that Pasta Supply Co. — his popular fresh-pasta shop and restaurant — will open a third San Francisco location at 919 Cole Street, the former…

HANC Board Nominations Open Through November Meeting

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council announced on October 4 that nominations for its board are open through the November membership meeting.

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