SF Daily Brief for November 6, 2026

This is SF Daily Brief for Friday, November 6, 2026. The new plan for San Francisco's dead mall is to tear it all down. Seven Equity Group is in contract to buy the San Francisco Centre for $132.5 million. In a pitch to lenders, the firm said it plans to tear the downtown mall down and build a new mixed-use development on the site.

The pitch lays out demolition of the downtown mall and a new mixed-use project. The city's latest count of homeless residents found 27% more homeless children than two years earlier. It was a citywide count. Overall homelessness fell, particularly among unsheltered residents, but the number of homeless families rose, according to the count.

The count compares the latest numbers with those from two years earlier and tracks both unsheltered residents and families. Highway 101 through San Francisco is closed again this weekend, for the last time. Caltrans will close more than a mile of southbound Highway 101 near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital from the night of Friday, Nov. 6, until early Monday, Nov.

9. It is the fourth and last closure for this repaving project. The work is repaving. Caltrans spokesperson Lori Shepherd said drivers should expect major delays.

A massive new Asian supermarket has opened at the City Center. T&T Supermarket, Canada's largest Asian grocery chain, opened its second California store at City Center, 2675 Geary Blvd., on Thursday morning. The store fills the former Best Buy space next to Target. That space had been planned for a Whole Foods.

Tim Tung and Autumn Brown Garibay won the final two seats on San Francisco's school board. Their wins complete a sweep for the slate backed by GrowSF. The GrowSF-backed campaign spent more than $400,000 on the race. Technology companies building data centers for AI are running into the same problem as San Francisco renters: nowhere to put them.

The search for new sites follows voter pushback on AI projects and a stock market selloff. The companies are looking for new sites for those data centers. The elevator at the 24th Street BART station was out of service for 94 days, leaving riders who use wheelchairs without a way to reach the platform. BART agreed in a 2024 settlement to fix or update 75 elevators across the system.

The elevator was out for 94 days. Was that legal? The Great Highway's neighbors flipped and saved the park they once hated. Precincts along the Great Highway swung from 40% to 56% in favor of keeping the coastal road closed as a park, according to the Standard's precinct-level analysis of the Proposition G vote.

Voters citywide rejected the measure to reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars on weekdays. The measure would have reopened the road to cars on weekdays. The vote was on Proposition G. The SoMa police station is losing its fourth captain since last June.

Captain Chris Canning will take over Southern Station on Nov. 7. The change takes effect on Nov. 7.

He replaces Carla Hurley, who had led the SoMa police station since May. The station has had four captains since last June. Kaeden Kent opened up about joining his dad's Giants. Kaeden Kent, the son of Jeff Kent, was traded from the New York Yankees to the Giants.

The trade sent him to the Giants. He discussed the move in an interview before an Arizona Fall League game. He said he wants to be like his father. The 49ers have Nick Bosa and DeForest Buckner back.

Now they need their next Dee Ford. Nick Bosa and DeForest Buckner are back on the 49ers' defensive line. Rookie pass rusher Romello Height thinks he can add the edge speed the team has missed since Dee Ford left. Thanks for listening today to SF Daily Brief.

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