The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/18/ocean-beach-safeway-could-close-temporarily-to-build-apartments-on-top-could-castro-safeway-be-next/The same developer that wants to build out the Fillmore Safeway property into apartments now has the same idea for the Ocean Beach Safeway on LaPlaya Street, though in this case, that Safeway would reopen once construction was finished. All the controversy around the closure of the Fillmore Safeway seems to have seen the dust finally settle, now that the Safeway has long closed, and the new developer called Align just submitted their plans last week for an 1,800-unit housing development at that site (which they say will eventually have a large grocery store built in). But that same developer Align now has plans to shut down

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