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New plan: 6 stories on Fillmore, 8 on California

Breed’s ‘upzoning’ becomes Lurie’s ‘family zoning’ plan FILLMORE STREET between Jackson and Bush would face the same future as most other neighborhood commercial districts and transit corridors under the city’s latest revision to its zoning plan: taller buildings designed to provide more residential housing. A marathon Planning Commission meeting last week kicked off what could…

Two dozen years at Peet’s

IT’S A BIG DAY at Peet’s on Fillmore, the town square of the neighborhood. Peetniks are celebrating Nancy Ferrufino’s 24th year anniversary at the always-bustling coffee shop on the corner of Fillmore and Sacramento. She’s a familiar sight three mornings a week, keeping the counters, tables and floors clean, stocking condiments, greeting the regulars —…

Jazz festival is back on again

ONE DAY AFTER merchant leaders announced the 2025 Fillmore Jazz Festival was being canceled, a sponsor stepped forward to say he would fund this year’s festival. After feverish scrambling over the weekend to put together a budget, the president of the Fillmore Merchants Association announced this morning that the festival will happen after all, as…

Paris on the Mo

STREET TALK | CYNTHIA TRAINA KC Paris Desserts has opened at 1365 Fillmore Street in the former Merchants Roots space. Owner and pastry chef Khadidiatou Camara — known as Didi — is a classically trained graduate of the prestigious Ferrandi pastry school in Paris, where she co-owned a bakery. Her family is from Martinique, but…

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