Now the Fillmore Has Its Own Boozy Entertainment Zone,' Where To-Go Cocktails Are Good To Go

"As booze-filled entertainment zones where people can buy to-go cocktails spread across San Francisco, now the Fillmore has one too, or rather, it has one big entertainment zone and another small one. Ever since then-Mayor London Breed passed her "entertainment zone legislation allowing bars to sell to-go cocktails and open container drinks during events when the streets are shut down to cars, seemingly every neighborhood in SF has been clamoring to get their own entertainment zones. And the latest of these is the Fillmore, as on Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors unanimously approved granting entertainment zone privileges to the Fillmore District, or at least, two parts of the Fillmore District."

"We have not devoted enough resources or the right resources to help the [Fillmore] neighborhood thrive, the district's Supervisor Bilal Mahmood said at a Monday committee meeting while discussing his entertainment zone proposal. The focus at the start will be around larger events like the annual Juneteenth celebration, but the business community will explore other events to activate the corridor."

"There is also this second very small area that is a new designated entertainment zone in the Fillmore District, this little one-block stretch of O'Farrell Street between Steiner and Fillmore Streets. That block is slated to host a Holiday Night Market in mid-December, so that kind of thing maybe explains why this block is included too."

San Francisco’s Fillmore District gained two designated entertainment zones where to-go alcoholic drinks and open-container consumption will be permitted only when streets are closed to cars for events. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a larger zone along Fillmore Street between Sutter and McAlister, covering several nightclubs and overlapping much of the Fillmore Jazz Festival map. A smaller one-block zone on O’Farrell between Steiner and Fillmore is designated for events such as a mid-December Holiday Night Market. The initial activation focus will be major events like Juneteenth, while local businesses consider additional corridor activations. The policy follows a measure passed by then-Mayor London Breed permitting to-go cocktails during street-closure events.

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