Storefront turnover across the Sunset: Tight Knit Vintage soft-opens in the Inner Sunset space Willow on the Green left behind, while Lomo Libre, one of the neighborhood's few Peruvian restaurants, closes on Irving Street after five years.

At 1327 B Ninth Ave. in the Inner Sunset, the wooden shelves that held wedges of cheddar until May are about to hold second-hand denim. Tight Knit Vintage & Modern, a Richmond thrift store, soft-opened its second location in that storefront on Saturday, Aug. 1 — timed, Mission Local's "Sunset Buzz" column reported, to the Outside Lands crowd streaming past Arizmendi Bakery next door. The space is the one Willow on the Green vacated when the British cheese shop closed after nearly five years, a closing The Dissent covered in June. The shelves themselves, owner Ashley Von Edge told the column, have passed between businesses on the block since the 1960s.

Von Edge, a longtime thrifter who built the business at spots like the Inner Sunset Flea Market, told "Sunset Buzz" she leans toward "patterns, textures and colors" and hunts most of her stock in Goodwill bins. "As long as you are willing to get your hands dirty, you can find hot deals," she said.

Six blocks toward the ocean, the turnover cut the other way. Lomo Libre, one of the Sunset's few Peruvian restaurants, served its last plate on Irving Street on Sunday, July 26, after five years, the column reported. Owner Jose Calvo-Perez let the lease expire. "It's challenging times," he told "Sunset Buzz." "Nobody is drinking as much as before, but we have a full bar." Flanked by a won-ton house and a pho restaurant, he said, Lomo Libre's price points didn't fit a block built on cheaper options; flat daytime foot traffic and rising labor costs did the rest. He and eight employees will fall back on his other rooms — Fresca in Noe Valley and Puerto 27 in Pacifica — while he scouts spaces in the city and Oakland for a leaner, fast-casual return.

The churn isn't all subtraction. At 1845 Irving St. near 20th Avenue, Anna Chen — who runs the Bibbiti arcade on Taraval — has been paying rent since January on Koobi Indoor Playhouse, a play space for kids 2 to 6 she told the column she hopes to open in September, pending a final city inspection. And on Taraval, Dumpling Specialist — which The Dissent reported in July had gone dark, its operating LLC expired — reopened July 22 under new owner Changdi Huang, of Chinatown's Begoni Bistro, its Shanghai-style xiao long bao intact.

None of this reads as collapse. Walk Ninth Avenue tomorrow and the cheese-shop window will have clothes in it; walk Irving and Lomo Libre's will be papered over, waiting for whoever's next.