Billy Alabsi

Money Moves

Reopened with a $50,000 grant after losing his first restaurant in the pandemic

Three years ago, San Francisco began handing cash directly to merchants to fill vacant storefronts. Of the 70 businesses in the program's first cohort, 55 are still open at their original locations — an early success in a city that spent years watching empty shopfronts spread.

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