Passion Cafe near 6th and Market is selling after all, despite denials from their own staff. The confusion was the result of being delisted at Urban Realty and the initial ‘available’ sign being taken down. Now there’s a new sign and a new new website. Photo from SF Citizen and more history about this with links here
Across the street, also near 6th and Market, and hardly noticed, Anu Bar has closed and like Passion Cafe, is also for lease
However, at the corner of 6th and Market, the first large tech company, Zendesk is moving in. Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane describes 6th and Market as colorful
6th and market is indeed “colorful”. Purple for drugs, red for assault, blue for robbery and weapons and theft, etc
Meanwhile and little known is the brand new trees planted by the Friends of the Urban Forest over the weekend on Stevenson between 6th and 7th
These trees help ‘reduce stress’ and could actually make crackheads and criminals more docile!