This Week's Top Stories

streets

Cesar Chavez Street Set to Become 'Las Campesinas' Under New Ordinance

District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder introduced legislation this week to rename the Mission's main artery, honoring the women of the farmworker movement.

One of the Mission District's most-traveled streets may soon carry a new name. On Tuesday, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder introduced an ordinance at the Board of Supervisors to rename Cesar Chavez Street as 'Las Campesinas' — Spanish for 'female farmworkers.' Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Shamann Walton, and Myrna Melgar joined as co-sponsors. The legislation still needs to clear committee hearings and a full board vote before going to the mayor.

library

After Six Years and $37 Million, the Mission Branch Library Is Ready to Come Home

The landmark Carnegie building at 24th and Bartlett will reopen November 14 with a restored entrance, a new teen room, a courtyard, and solar panels — after a renovation that took three times longer than planned.

The Mission Branch Library — the oldest branch in the San Francisco Public Library system, housed in a Carnegie-funded building that opened in 1915 — will reopen on Saturday, November 14, at 1 p.m. after more than six years of closure and a renovation that ultimately cost roughly $37 million. The building at 300 Bartlett Street, on the corner of 24th Street, shut in March 2020. Actual construction did not begin until August 2023, and the project ran approximately a year past its most recent completion target.

housing

A 45-Story Tower Is Proposed for the Mission's Last Car Wash

Developer Manna Capital filed preliminary permits for a 479-foot, 528-unit rental skyscraper at 1601 Mission Street — a triangular lot that has seen ambitious proposals come and go for decades.

Preliminary permits filed October 7 call for a 45-story residential skyscraper at 1601 Mission Street, where the Tower Car Wash occupies a triangular lot near South Van Ness Avenue. Chicago-based developer Manna Capital is the project sponsor. If built, the 479-foot structure would rank among the largest housing projects in San Francisco since the pandemic. The building, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, would contain 528 rental apartments across roughly 542,800 square feet of residential space. The unit mix ranges from 114 studios to 20 three-bedroom apartments.

Upcoming Events

Friday–Sunday, October 23–25

Invisible Atlas — Ranko Ogura Dance at Dance Mission Theater

📍 Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St., Mission District · 7:30 PM (Fri & Sat); 4:00 PM (Sun) · Verify · SF Arts

Saturday, October 24

Alemany Farm's 21st Annual Harvest Festival

📍 Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd., Outer Mission · 11:00 AM–3:00 PM · Verify · Eventbrite / Friends of Alemany Farm

Thursday, October 29

Halloween & Día de los Muertos Market at Mission Community Market

📍 Mission Community Market, 22nd Street at Bartlett St. and 84 Bartlett St., Mission District · 3:00–7:00 PM · Verify · San Francisco Chronicle

Saturday, November 14

Mission Branch Library Reopening Celebration

📍 Mission Branch Library, 300 Bartlett St. at 24th Street, Mission District · 1:00 PM · Verify · San Francisco Public Library

Through Sunday, November 1

18th Cine+Más SF Latino Film Festival

📍 Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., and Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia St., Mission District, plus other SF venues · Various times · Verify · Hoodline

More from the Community

City to Fast-Track $1.8 Million in Emergency Immigrant Legal Aid

District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder — whose district covers the Mission — announced at a City Hall rally on Tuesday, October 20, that San Francisco would commit $1.8 million in emergency supplemental…

Community Directory

Every listing, kept current, in the full edition.