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business

Irving Street Is Booming. Taraval and Noriega Are Still Treading Water.

City sales tax data shows the Inner Sunset has blown past its pre-pandemic peak while outer commercial corridors have yet to recover.

Businesses along Irving Street in the Inner Sunset are reaching record-high sales volumes, driven by a wave of restaurant openings, according to local merchants and city sales tax data reported by Mission Local this week. <cite index="30-5,30-6">Businesses in the Inner Sunset are reaching record-high sales volume driven by a boom of restaurant openings; for most of the year, sales tax revenue has grown and is higher than its pre-pandemic levels.</cite> <cite index="30-8">On a recent sunny weekend, the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Irving Street by Golden Gate Park was crowded…

housing

Fire-Damaged 8th Avenue Apartments Sold for $6.65 Million — and Displaced Tenants Say They Heard Nothing

The 28-unit Inner Sunset building has stood empty since a 2023 fire, was quietly sold in June, and the handful of tenants with the right to return say no one told them.

<cite index="38-9">Tenants of a 28-unit apartment complex in the Inner Sunset left their home in a flurry when a fire broke out in 2023 in a hardware store next door and spread to their 100-year-old building.</cite> <cite index="38-10,38-11">The building has stood empty since then, despite efforts from tenants and city officials to move renovations along.

Prop G

Sunset Dunes or Road Again? Prop G Puts the Great Highway Back Before Voters on November 3

San Franciscans will vote for a third time in four years on the future of the Upper Great Highway, with a new measure asking to restore weekday car access to what is now Sunset Dunes Park.

<cite index="49-3,49-4">Proposition G asks San Francisco voters to once again pick a side in the years-long parkland-vs.-roadway clash along Ocean Beach. The measure seeks to turn the Upper Great Highway back into a mixed-use area — maintaining parts of Sunset Dunes Park while allowing private vehicle traffic during weekdays.</cite> <cite index="47-1">In November 2024, San Francisco voters approved Prop K, which closed the Upper Great Highway to private vehicles at all times, and the city converted the roadway into Sunset Dunes Park in 2025.</cite> <cite index="47-10">Supporters of Prop G submitted 15,924…

Upcoming Events

Friday, October 16

Dune Revegetation Volunteer Morning at Sunset Dunes

📍 Sunset Dunes Park, Ocean Beach · 9:00 AM–12:00 PM · Verify · Friends of Sunset Dunes

Thursday, October 22

Acoustic Happy Hour at Sunset Dunes

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Saturday, October 24

44th Annual Sandcastle Classic at Ocean Beach

📍 Ocean Beach at Balboa Street, 1000 Great Highway · 11:00 AM–3:30 PM · Verify · Funcheap SF

Sunday, October 25

Inner Sunset Trick or Treat & Fall Fest

📍 Irving Street commercial corridor, Inner Sunset · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM · Verify · Inner Sunset Merchants Association

Sunday, October 25

6th Annual Great Hauntway at Sunset Dunes

📍 Upper Great Highway between Judah and Taraval Streets, Sunset Dunes Park · 1:00 PM–4:00 PM · Verify · Friends of Sunset Dunes

More from the Community

Abanico Coffee Roasters Opens Second Café at 424 Irving Street

Abanico Coffee Roasters, the Mission District–based Salvadoran-inspired specialty coffee shop founded by Ana Valle in 2021, has opened a second San Francisco location at 424 Irving St. in the Inner Sunset near…

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