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“Winter Walk SF” Union Square’s Pop-Up Holiday Plaza | 2018
Union Square’s Winter Walk will once again make the holidays brighter by transforming Stockton Street between Geary and Ellis, which is adjacent to Union Square Park, into 17,000 sq ft of open green space and a pedestrian-only holiday pop-up plaza.
Safety Top Priority for San Francisco's Winter Walk
A popular holiday destination reopened in San Francisco and people from all over the city have been enjoying the sights.
San Francisco Holiday Treat Winter Walk Returns
Two blocks of Stockton Street near Union Square have been transformed yet again from a dusty subway construction site into a unique holiday destination.
SF’s Stockton Street To Reopen Early 2019
After more than six years serving as a pedestrian plaza, San Francisco’s Stockton Street will soon be turned back over to traffic by early 2019.
SF Police Have Come to Rely on a Private Surveillance Network to Stop Property Crime
The Union Square Business Improvement District started its small six-camera program in 2012 but have since expanded to more than 350 with the help of grant funding.
Hundreds Of Surveillance Cameras Watch San Francisco’s Union Square
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A network of security cameras in San Francisco is getting bigger.
SF on the verge of banning fur sales despite outcry from retailers
San Francisco is on the verge of banning fur sales despite business leaders decrying the prohibition and warning of job and tax revenue loss.
Expand Union Square efforts to address homeless
As the steward of San Francisco’s most iconic area, Union Square Business Improvement District members know what it’s like to work to address San Francisco’s No. 1 and seemingly most intractable issue — homelessness.
Stockton Street becomes holiday pedestrian plaza — should closure be permanent?
Food vendors, entertainers and puppies will once again replace jackhammers and wooden walls as one of San Francisco’s newest holiday traditions transforms two blocks of Stockton Street from a cacophonous construction zone into a pop-up pedestrian plaza.
San Francisco's Union Square business community reaches out to growing homeless population
Businesses in San Francisco's Union Square neighborhood say they're seeing an increase in the homeless in the area.