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Jillian D’Onfro
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Business reporter at SF Standard, chronicling Bay Area stories✨ jdonfro@sfstandard.com 📧 Formerly writing and editing at SFGATE, Business Insider, CNBC, and Forbes. Send me news tips! jillianiles.33 on Signal
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This downtown SF university gave up its campus. Here’s how it plans to rebuild
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San Francisco’s Golden Gate University plans to find a new downtown campus
Golden Gate University is focused on growing its online program. Here’s why it still wants a space in downtown SF.
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February 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Fun Q&A from @jonsteinberg31.bsky.social about what it was like to be one of the human bushes ("grass people"!) during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show. Particularly loved this tidbit from the participant about how they appreciated their phone getting taken away

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Screenshot from article with text reading the following: Question: Did you make new friends out of this experience? 
 Answer: Yeah, definitely. I think I made some really good friends, people I won’t ever forget. Initially going into it, I didn’t know anybody. But getting there, they take away your phones — that was a really big thing — so we didn’t have our phones really. And we had the joy of being able to talk freely.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Mayor Lurie is working with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive on secretive SF branding effort 👀👀👀

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SF mayor working with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive on secretive SF branding effort
Mayor Daniel Lurie has quietly met several times in recent months with philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, former Apple designer Jony Ive, Gap CEO Richard Dickson, and others, to discuss a branding ca...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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On the ground reporting from my colleagues this afternoon at the national strike & ICE protest in Dolores Park >>>> sfstandard.com/2026/01/30/s...
ICE protests: San Francisco businesses, students join national strike
Protesters gather at Dolores Park on a day of action sparked by the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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H1mmy Butler is out, but his Bigface Coffee is returning to San Francisco just in time for Super Bowl LX per @jillianiles.bsky.social 👇

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Jimmy Butler’s Bigface Coffee comes back to SF
While the Warriors star is sidelined with a torn ACL, his brand Bigface will have another pop-up.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Unlike in past tech booms, AI companies aren't plastering their names and logos onto office buildings, so it can be hard to know where they're all located.

@kevinvnguyen.bsky.social maps San Francisco's hotspots ➡️🗺️

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Invisible giants: Where AI companies are hiding their offices
A lack of signage and public addresses obscures their locations. But we’ve got the dirt on the industry’s footprint in San Francisco.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Want to turn Super Bowl 60 into your side hustle? I found a bunch of temp work positions currently available around the big game, including one that involves getting to be *on the field* during halftime (if you meet veeery specific height requirements) sfstandard.com/2026/01/21/s...
How to make the Super Bowl LX your side hustle
The Niners are out, so here are your chances to make some cash around the big game.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Displaced by fire, then robbed: Tenderloin tenants say landlord left them vulnerable sfstandard.com/2026/01/15/t... @allaboutgeorge.com reports on the devastation
SF tenants displaced by fire face theft, silence from landlord
Many say Mosser Companies failed to secure their homes or return calls since a December blaze.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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“It’s been a story of resistance: We’d get kicked out of one space and find another neighborhood to regroup, and add love and creativity,” Joseph said. “Now, we’re ready to give other artists and collectives a space.”

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This arts org has lost multiple venues, so it decided to open its own
Decentered Arts opened on Folsom Street in one of SF’s last “weirdo-majority” neighborhoods.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Folks... someone gave birth inside a Waymo last night sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/b...
Driverless delivery: Woman gives birth in San Francisco Waymo
Waymo detected “unusual activity” in the robotaxi and initiated a call to check on the passenger.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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An unlikely character is spearheading the recent glow-up of one of SF’s most important retail corridors: sfstandard.com/2025/12/07/p...
Meet the Lurie-loving crypto bro helping lead Powell Street’s turnaround
An unlikely character is spearheading the recent glow-up of one of SF’s most important retail corridors.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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City Hall looking pretty darn pretty tonight
a picture of san francisco city hall at night, lit up in a bunch of different colors
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Waymos are suddenly behaving like New York cabbies 🥴 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies
Autonomous vehicles are adopting humanlike qualities, making illegal U-turns and flooring it the second the light goes green.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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RIP to an icon sfstandard.com/2025/12/02/b...
Famed San Francisco albino alligator Claude dies at 30
The unofficial mascot for San Francisco recently had a year of birthday celebrations.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor — at a crossroads. Here's the story of how a landmark once poised for a comeback has become mired in lawsuits sfstandard.com/2025/12/01/1...
Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor —  at a crossroads
A landmark once poised for a comeback is mired in lawsuits, reflecting broader troubles facing Van Ness Avenue.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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More changes on the horizon for Ikea's Saluhall, Market Street's struggling food hall sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...
Rent hike drives out original tenant of Ikea’s SF food hall
Vegan Puerto Rican restaurant Casa Borinqueña will exit Saluhall. Izzy and Wooks will move in.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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San Francisco police ramp up late-night drug raids to appease Trump and feds sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...
San Francisco police step up late-night drug raids to appease Trump
Officials say the crackdown is linked to the president’s threats to deploy the National Guard and ICE.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This SF couple made a maaajor alley-oops sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/s...
‘Why would someone own this?’ How this Sunset couple accidentally bought an alley for $25,000
This husband and wife thought a real estate auction offered the chance at a $1 million house for a fraction of the cost, only to find out they were the new owners of “Dirt Alley” instead.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Union Square's "boom loop" continues sfstandard.com/2025/11/12/u...
Another AI company just moved to Union Square
Chalk just leased 15,000 square feet in a building on Stockton Street, as the area’s ‘boom loop’ continues.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their names

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Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name
Almost anything can be had through Buy Nothing — except the name.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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"The beach lovers’ initiative is part of a pattern: If the feds can’t get their act together, San Franciscans will just do it themselves."

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San Francisco’s China Beach reopens despite federal shutdown
A mere $2,500 was enough to keep the sliver of federal waterfront accessible.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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!!! A new bookstore is coming to Union Square — and right on Powell Street no less sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/e...
San Francisco’s Union Square is about to get a bookstore
The Best Bookstore, founded by a couple of famed tech writers, plans to open by Black Friday.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Scoop from @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social and myself: Ikea's parent company is ending its partnership with the British firm that had been overseeing its struggling dining complex, Saluhall, since its launch sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/i...
San Francisco IKEA drops its food hall operator
Saluhall has struggled to attract consistent foot traffic since opening in 2024.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Some exciting news for San Francisco's Union Square sfstandard.com/2025/11/04/b...
Empty Barneys building in Union Square gets art gallery tenant
In another sign of downtown’s recovery, Maybaum Gallery is moving into a historic building that’s been empty for five years.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The Bay Area pumpkin carver who wows people with her wild designs (sfstandard.com/2024/10/27/p...) was featured on "Halloween Wars" this year! 🎃
Screenshot from Paulina Goff's Instagram about being on The Food Network's "Halloween Wars" show
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM