A Grocery Outlet opens Thursday, August 13 at 350 Bay Street, filling the 30,000-square-foot NorthPoint Centre box that a Safeway left dark for more than three years. City records list the operating entity as Jjkm Market.

Grocery Outlet opens its North Beach store on Thursday, August 13, at 350 Bay Street — filling a 30,000-square-foot box that has sat dark since Safeway closed there on May 27, 2023. It is the discount chain's sixth San Francisco location, and it lands in a corner of the city that has gone more than three years without a full-service grocery within walking distance.

The Safeway's departure left roughly 20,000 residents across North Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill hauling their groceries out of the neighborhood. The vacancy became a civic sore point: the North Beach Business Association pushed for a replacement, and a community petition drew more than 1,000 signatures before Grocery Outlet signed on. The company took the space on a 15-year lease with a 15-year extension option, according to reporting by The San Francisco Standard, betting long on a corridor that a national chain walked away from.

About 65 percent of the 30,000 square feet is designated selling floor, and the operator has hired more than 50 employees from the surrounding neighborhood, per KTVU. The building itself, NorthPoint Centre, changed hands in December 2023 when San Jose–based Anchor Pacific Capital bought it for roughly $25.76 million.

Grocery Outlet runs on an independent-operator model — the company owns the inventory and consigns it, while a local operator runs the store and shares the profit. The chain has not named the operator behind 350 Bay in any of its announcements. City business records fill part of that gap: the store is registered as "North Beach Grocery Outlet" under the ownership entity Jjkm Market, with a business-registration date of May 21, 2026.

Opening-day and regular hours had not been published as of this writing. What is settled is the date, the address, and the arithmetic the neighborhood has been waiting on: a big, cheap grocery box, back in service after 39 months of a papered-over window.