Brian (Local SF Guide) 
Elevation Sky Park San Francisco opens to the public at Pier 70 on Saturday, September 19, 2026, with Pier Play San Francisco, a 21-and-over waterfront festival headlined by BLOND:ISH.
Bruma, a cocktail lounge named for the Spanish word for mist, opens October 12, 2026 in the lobby of The Ritz-Carlton at 600 Stockton Street on Nob Hill.
Wicked: Part One in Concert plays the Orpheum Theatre on January 16, 2027, a preview stop a week before the tour’s official premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
San Francisco Public Works now lists construction on the $40 million Powell Street Improvement Project running from winter 2026 to winter 2027, covering the three blocks between Market and Geary.
Shipwreck Cove, the first playground at Sunset Dunes on the former Great Highway, is under construction and expected to open before the end of 2026, San Francisco Recreation and Parks says.
Caltrain’s board approved the railroad’s first passenger code of conduct on September 3, 2026. A two-week education period starts October 5 and the rules take effect October 19.
The SFPUC now says major construction on the Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project, which removes the Great Highway Extension and buries a seawall under a new dune, will not start until late 2029.
Bay Area Transit Month runs through September 30, with more than 80 events, a month-long ride contest, and a September 11 ride-along with the chief executives of BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain.
Ken Kesey’s original Furthur bus, a 1939 school bus that had not left Oregon since 1969, is the centerpiece of Forever Grateful, Golden Gate Park, on view at the County Fair Building through October 25.
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy has named a roughly 13-mile route from Crissy Field to Fort Funston that connects 12 national park sites in San Francisco, with turn-by-turn directions and a sticker at three stops.
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