After pushback from city officials and a Fillmore District community that didn't want to lose its only supermarket, Safeway has agreed to keep its Webster Street store open until early 2025.
The supermarket chain set off an uproar earlier this month when it announced that it was selling the store, which has operated in the Fillmore neighborhood for several decades, to San Francisco-based developer Align Real Estate.
The original plan was to close the store in March to clear the way for Align to build a housing and retail development on the nearly four-acre site that encompasses the grocery and its parking lot. Employees at the Fillmore Safeway would have been reassigned to one of the Pleasanton-based chain's 15 remaining supermarkets in San Francisco.
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