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Business Briefs: Filmmakers turn lens on historic SF gay bar

Business Briefs: Filmmakers turn lens on historic SF gay bar

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Jul 10, 2019

Living mere blocks from the Twin Peaks Tavern, Pond Street residents Bret Parker and Petey Barma consider the historic gay bar their neighborhood watering hole.

Business Briefs: Lesbians Who Tech retools 2020 Castro summit

Business Briefs: Lesbians Who Tech retools 2020 Castro summit

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Jun 12, 2019

Lesbians Who Tech + Allies is retooling its 2020 San Francisco summit as it remains determined to stay in the city's LGBT Castro district amid growing popularity.

Planning body moves to allow nonprofit uses in Castro storefronts, restrict formulaic health care

Planning body moves to allow nonprofit uses in Castro storefronts, restrict formulaic health care

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • May 9, 2019

The city's planning commission voted Thursday to make it easier for nonprofits and harder for formulaic health care centers to lease sidewalk-fronting storefronts along upper Market Street in the city's gay Castro district.

Business Briefs: LGBT biz group increases focus on South

Business Briefs: LGBT biz group increases focus on South

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • May 8, 2019

A year after Erin Uritus took over as CEO of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, she is turning the nonprofit's attention toward the 13 states that comprise the southern United States and lack robust protections for LGBTQ workers, if they have any at all.

Castro beer garden to open; arcade expansion approved

Castro beer garden to open; arcade expansion approved

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • May 2, 2019

A beer hall is set to open next week on upper Market Street in San Francisco's gay Castro district, while across the street an arcade bar has won approval to expand its business.

Business Briefs: CA biz leader connects gay, Latino communities

Business Briefs: CA biz leader connects gay, Latino communities

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Apr 10, 2019

Opening doors for Latino business owners as well as LGBT Hispanics in California drives Juan P. Novello's work, whether with his local chamber of commerce or at his current job as the chief operating officer of the California Latino Economic Institute.

SF planning body approves permits for Castro social club, real estate firm

SF planning body approves permits for Castro social club, real estate firm

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Apr 5, 2019

A real estate firm and an LGBT social club in the Castro both secured the permits they needed from the city's Planning Commission this week.

SF Castro arcade bar Brewcade moves forward with expansion

SF Castro arcade bar Brewcade moves forward with expansion

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Mar 18, 2019

Brewcade, the popular arcade and craft beer bar on upper Market Street in San Francisco's gay Castro district, is moving forward with its expansion plans into an adjacent restaurant space and opening up its entertainment offerings to all ages.

Business Briefs: Castro business group to welcome new leader

Business Briefs: Castro business group to welcome new leader

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Mar 13, 2019

The Castro Merchants is set to elect real estate agent Masood Samereie as its next president when it meets April 4. He has been selling property in the city's LGBT neighborhood since 2003.

Business Briefs: Gay crime novelist launches own press with podcast

Business Briefs: Gay crime novelist launches own press with podcast

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 13, 2019

A year ago this month celebrated gay crime novelist Michael Nava secured the rights for all of his published works, including the seven titles in his acclaimed series featuring the gay criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios.

Gay insurance chief stresses 'fair deals' to LGBT, allied biz leaders

Gay insurance chief stresses 'fair deals' to LGBT, allied biz leaders

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Feb 6, 2019

Gay state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara told a crowd of 600 LGBT and allied business leaders that he ran for the post, in large part, to make life better for working Californians.

Business Briefs: French-based rental site connects gay travelers

Business Briefs: French-based rental site connects gay travelers

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Jan 9, 2019

Since listing a spare bedroom in his Bernal Heights home on the LGBT-oriented short-term rental site misterb&b, San Francisco resident Alan Lessik has met other gay men from around the world.

Business Briefs: Home decor store spruces up Castro retail scene

Business Briefs: Home decor store spruces up Castro retail scene

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Dec 12, 2018

A new gay-owned home decor store is sprucing up the retail scene in San Francisco's Castro district just in time to assist residents of the gayborhood with their holiday shopping needs.

Planning officials approve Castro CBD moving into vacant storefront

Planning officials approve Castro CBD moving into vacant storefront

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Nov 8, 2018

An improvement association for the gay Castro district has won approval to move its offices into a vacant storefront, giving it a prominent location in the neighborhood for the first time as it seeks to be renewed.