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sfstandard.com San Francisco approves controversial Marina Safeway project The 848-unit project used two state laws to skip a public hearing and exceed the site’s 40-foot height limit. A federal lawsuit is pending. 
sfstandard.com It’s inedible and highly elusive — and San Francisco bartenders can’t get enough Umeshu, made by steeping tart ume plums in sugar and alcohol, is showing up on cocktail menus across San Francisco and the Bay Area, from Rintaro and Bar Iris to local distilleries like St. George... 
sfstandard.com Anthropic sets IPO price range, revealing scale of Bay Area windfall The valuation is lower than the figure bankers floated over the summer but still speaks to investors’ appetite for AI. 
sfstandard.com Who needs a starter home when you’re young, rich, and planning to live forever? Young AI millionaires are moving right from their one-bedroom apartments to sprawling San Francisco mansions packed with saunas, cold plunges, and “internet up the yin-yang.” Ideally they never have... 
sfstandard.com The CEO of Lurie-aligned downtown nonprofit is out after little more than a year The San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation provided no reason for the departure of Shola Olatoye, a longtime housing executive. 