How This Works
- Our closure tracker. Places we have confirmed closed, moved or renamed, each dated and sourced, and checked by address against the city’s business register. See the tracker.
- Our directory. Places we list, checked when we last updated them.
- The city business register (SF Treasurer, via DataSF), searched live. It records when a business registered at a location and, if it did, when that registration ended. An ended registration usually means the business closed or left that address. An active one does not prove a place is open today, and registers update weeks or months late.
For privacy we only show a business’s name, its neighborhood and its dates. Registrations filed under a person’s own name are left out, and we never show owners or street addresses. Your search is sent to our server and on to DataSF; we don’t store it.