The 21st annual Halloween Hoopla at Yerba Buena Gardens features fun performances and activities for kids under 10 and their adults! The Hoopla grand finale is the annual Halloween Costume Parade – all kids are welcome to join in their best Halloween looks.
Vote for your favorite pumpkin in the Yerba Buena Pumpkin Patch.
Hitch a free ride on the LeRoy King Carousel, open from 11:30am-2:30pm to complete the day!
*Halloween Hoopla Specials*
Halloween Hoopla attendees get free entry to the Yerba Buena Ice Skating and Bowling Center Halloween Skating Competition and Performance Party, starting at 2pm, plus coupons for ice skating class discounts. More info at www.skatebowl.com
The second phase of modular units were successfully set on September 14. We are scheduled to set the third and final phase of modular units at the end of October. In the coming days, we will apply for a night noise permit for with the specific details for the setting dates and times. The same activities will likely occur around the same times of the day as the first two sets – units were trucked to the site between Midnight and 7AM, with settings occurring as early as 4AM into the afternoon. Setting this final phase of units will take approximately one week. On-site construction is ongoing on Level 1 and the North side of the property. The next virtual community meeting will occur on Thursday, November 4 at 5PM PT to discuss the project and answer any questions you may have. Please submit your questions to MBBlock9@homerisesf.org by 5PM on Thursday, October 28. Instructions to join the meeting will be listed on our website at https://homerisesf.org/missionbay/ and distributed in the next notice. To view past meetings, presentations, and notices, and to learn more information about the project, please visit https://homerisesf.org/missionbay/. If you have any questions regarding the project, please reach out to MBBlock9@homerisesf.org. Please see our current and future construction activities on the next page:
Current Construction Activities: • Off-site modular unit construction • Framing at Northwest portion of the site • Level 1 construction – Framing and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing lines • Roofing preparation at North side of the property. Key Project Milestones: • October/November 2021 – Setting last phase of the modular units • November 2021 – Framing complete • December 2021 – Roofing complete • May 2022 – Exterior skin complete • June 2022 – Lease-up commences • July 2022 – Community Garden complete
Red and White and The Roxie are partnering once again to turn our hybrid vessel Enhydra into a floating cinema for a limited run of nighttime film cruises on the Bay!
Join them for a 2-hour twilight cruise on San Francisco Bay and a feature film handpicked by the Roxie. The electric vessel means no engine noise and a truly one of a kind movie experience with the amazing views of the Bay and San Francisco skyline all around.
Both indoor and outdoor seating are available, and the film will play on screens throughout the vessel. A full cocktail bar with drinks and snacks complete the experience. Ticket price includes complimentary popcorn and hot drinks (coffee, hot chocolate or tea).
San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today unveiled details from San Francisco’s Organized Retail Crime Initiative, a new initiative led by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) in partnership with local retailers and regional law enforcement agencies. The focus of the plan is to increase reporting, investigating, and solving of retail theft cases and the upstream criminal enterprises that fuel them.
The Plan has three main elements:
Expanding and reallocating police investigative resources
Increasing the SFPD Organized Retail Crime Unit from two to five investigators and adding one dedicated Lieutenant to better investigate crimes locally and to work regionally with the California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force
Strategic restructuring of publicly and privately funded deployments
Dedicating SFPD personnel to ensure tightly-coordinated field operations and communications with retail partners
Tripling the SFPD Community Ambassador program, which employs retired SFPD officers to patrol and serve as deterrence, and expanding geographic area served
Managing privately funded deployment of 10B officers to focus on deterrence
Public-private partnerships aimed at reporting, investigating and solving cases
Increase reporting of crimes through expansion of Teleserve Unit, which was implemented during COVID-19 pandemic to take reports without in-person contact
“Retail theft and commercial burglaries are not victimless crimes,” said Mayor Breed. “They hurt working families due to reduced work hours, shuttered stores and lost jobs. They hurt customers and seniors who are losing convenient access to prescription medications and vaccinations because of pharmacy closures. They hurt neighborhoods suffering from fewer local retailers and more empty storefronts. The strategy we’re outlining today is an all-hands-on-deck approach that brings the full partnership of state and local law enforcement and retailers to bear to aggressively pursue, investigate and deter organized retail crime in San Francisco.”
“Mayor Breed directed us to develop a plan to maximize the impact of SFPD’s resources by strengthening our partnerships with retailers and law enforcement agencies, and leveraging our successes from such previously announced strategies as our Mid-Market Vibrancy and Safety Plan and Tourism Deployment Plan,” said Chief Bill Scott. “The result is our Organized Retail Crime Initiative, and we are incredibly grateful for the participation of local retailers whose partnerships are making this endeavor truly groundbreaking. This collaborative approach reflects the full promise of community policing — not solely to support our City’s economic recovery, but to better protect public safety that is too often endangered by retail theft crews and the sophisticated criminal enterprises funding them.”
Expanding and reallocating police and investigative resources
The initiative will expand SFPD’s Organized Retail Crime Unit from two to five full-duty sworn investigators under the command of a dedicated lieutenant. In addition to cases they investigate within their citywide purview, unit members will serve as full partners to the California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force, which Governor Gavin Newsom reauthorized on July 21, 2021.
Prior to its reauthorization after sunsetting earlier this year, CHP’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force worked in close partnership with the San Francisco Police Department in operations that recovered millions of dollars in stolen merchandise and cash from criminal enterprises engaged in retail theft activities. One of those coordinated operations led to an $8 million seizure in partnership with the San Mateo Sheriff’s Office on Sept. 30, 2020, in which multiple law enforcement agencies recovered merchandise stolen from San Francisco Bay Area retailers.
Strategic restructuring of privately funded deployments, expanded patrols
The initiative calls for reallocating resources to SFPD’s Field Operations Bureau to focus on deterrence. This will include a newly assigned lieutenant to coordinate privately funded “10B” officers and a sergeant who will function as a dedicated retail theft coordinator. Initial allocations of police officers’ 10B time are expected to average more than 3,800 hours per two-week pay period, spanning at least 34 retail locations citywide. Additionally, SFPD’s Community Ambassador program will be more than tripled in size — from 8 to fully 25 ambassadors — and expanded to cover new areas beyond Union Square (where it is currently focused), including Yerba Buena/Moscone Center, Lower Market/Embarcadero, Chinatown, and Fisherman’s Wharf.
SFPD’s Community Ambassadors are unarmed civilians who patrol in high-visibility SFPD Community Ambassador windbreakers. Utilizing their wealth of law enforcement experience, these ambassadors observe and report issues and problem-solve within their assigned area in partnership with community stakeholders. Initially launched in November 2020 with eight retired SFPD officers as part of the Holiday Season “Safe Shopper” program, SFPD ambassadors have been instrumental in helping to solve several crimes to date, providing critical information that led to the arrest of suspects involved in several organized retail theft and robbery incidents.
Public-private partnerships aimed at reporting, investigating and solving cases
The San Francisco Police Department is dramatically expanding incident reporting capabilities for participating retailers under the Organized Retail Crime Initiative — initially through SFPD’s Teleserve Unit.
SFPD first implemented its Teleserve Unit last year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate the intake of incident reports without the risks of in-person contacts. The system was upgraded in August 2021 to allow for reports of retail thefts to be prepared over the phone, a time- and cost-saving technique designed to encourage retailers to maximize their reporting of theft incidents. A planned upgrade to SFPD’s online reporting system from LexisNexis Coplogic Solutions will allow participating retailers to more easily report thefts via an online portal.
If successful in enabling retailers to maximize their reporting of retail crimes, a potentially dramatic increase in larceny and commercial burglary crime rates should be expected. However, more robust reporting and data aggregation will more effectively target the San Francisco Police Department’s deployment of police resources, while enabling SFPD investigators to more fully inform partner agencies within the California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force. By better facilitating information from incidents together with accompanying evidence, the initiative can help to solve retail theft cases and more effectively target the upstream criminal enterprises fueling them.
Extending Metro Muni service through the subway until midnight allows SFMTA to provide late-night service connections to Bay Area Rapid Transit.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will operate Muni Metro subway service to midnight as part of its ongoing rail recovery and COVID-19 Muni service expansion that starts Oct. 2.
Monday through Saturday, the last trains will depart their terminals before midnight and will reach the end of the subway tunnel, in either direction, by midnight. The last eastbound Muni Metro train will depart daily at 11:50 p.m. and last westbound train at 12:00 a.m.
Sunday night service will run until approximately 10:00 p.m.
Since May 2021, rail service has run until 9:00 p.m. daily, allowing maintenance crews more time to conduct vital, ongoing maintenance work. Extending Metro Muni service through the subway until midnight allows SFMTA to provide late-night service connections to Bay Area Rapid Transit, while preserving a large part of its late-night subway maintenance window.
To do this necessary and critical maintenance work, crews need several hours without trains in the tunnels. Prior to the pandemic, the subway maintenance window was too short, causing work to be delayed or deferred. The subway shutdown during the pandemic allowed SFMTA to advance this work significantly.
This is a pre-event notice to inform you that the San Francisco Giant Race presented by Alaska Airlines will be taking place at Oracle Park and in the surrounding area on Sunday, September 12, 2021. The event will affect city streets between the hours of 3:00 am and 12:00 pm. During this time, all or part of the roads near your location will be affected.
Street Closures: 3:30AM – 12:00PM Northbound Embarcadero from 2nd Street to Broadway Vehicles will be allowed across the Embarcadero only when safe to do so by SFPD. Pedestrians can pass intersections along the Embarcadero with assistance from SFPD and race personnel. Noise: 6:30AM – 11:00AM Music & amplified human speech If you have any questions or concerns or you would like to get involved with the event, please contact (415) 972-1881 or email info@giantrace.com. Approximately 2,000 people will participate in our 5K race through the streets of San Francisco.
You may also visit GiantRace.comfor more information.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation. We look forward to working with you to make this event as efficient as possible while allowing the runners a safe and swift passage through your neighborhood. Please note race organizers are taking all appropriate action to ensure a minimal amount of impact on your neighborhood on race day.
