The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/24/downtown-first-thursdays-funded-for-2026-with-2-million-from-chris-larsen/The success of the past year and a half of Downtown First Thursdays events has encouraged the event's backers to go full-throttle into next year, guaranteeing that the monthly street party will go on. Downtown First Thursdays had been funded through the end of 2025, last we heard. But now billionaire Chris Larsen has confirmed that DFT will go on past New Year's Day — and New Year's Day falls on a Thursday this year, so that will be the year's first event. "When you bring thousands of people back to the heart of the city and put artists and entrepreneurs at the center, you’re not just throwing a party — you’re revving up an economic engine," Larsen

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