Spirits ran high for Lucky Bayview’s grand opening on Oct. 26, 2022. A quaint picket fence corralled a semi-circle of local media, jostling for camera position in front of a stage featuring Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Shamann Walton, and an Francisco Police Captain David Moran.

“The opening of Lucky Bayview is a major step in improving food access and food security in what has historically been a food desert,” Breed announced, recalling the food desert of her childhood in the Fillmore. “This is really going to be a gamechanger for Bayview Hunters Point.”

“This was a hard-fought battle for many years,” Walton said, noting that Walgreens left the same location in 2019 after 30 years and that the community had to fight against a cannabis dispensary taking its place.

Three years later, p

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