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SF New Deal, launched in 2020 to save restaurants by getting meals to people in need, has evolved to serve small businesses more generally and distributed $45 million in public and private money in the process.
San Francisco encouraged landlords to host pop-up shops over the holidays. Many believe the temporary businesses are a success and will keep growing.
A new San Francisco city program, ‘Vacant to Vibrant’, is hoping to fill some of the downtown areas large number of vacant storefronts, and bring new foot traffic to the area. Bay Area non-profit SF New Deal, which helped spearhead the program, is helping 17 new pop-up shops open their doors on Friday.
The “Vacant to Vibrant” program is working to revitalize downtown San Francisco.
These small businesses will take over vacant storefronts in downtown SF. Here's why.