Neighborhood merchants are reeling from the effects of lockdowns such as an ongoing spate of window-breaking and other vandalism even while the Castro joins the rest of San Francisco in moving into the less restrictive red tier of COVID-19 reopenings.
That and updates from gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and bisexual Assistant District Attorney Matt Donahue, his office s liaison to the neighborhood, were the focus of the virtual Thursday meeting of the Castro Merchants.
Dave Karraker, a gay man who is a spokesperson for, and board member of, Castro Merchants, told the B.A.R. late last week that the association is launching the Castro Window Recovery Initiative.
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