The D10 Community Pharmacy, funded by a city storefront opportunity grant, is slated to open at 5668 Third St. — the former site of a shuttered ice cream parlor — more than a year after Bayview-Hunters Point lost its last Walgreens.

At 5668 Third St., the former storefront of What's the Scoop has been sitting empty since the ice cream parlor shuttered. By the time the D10 Community Pharmacy opens there, Bayview-Hunters Point will have been without a local pharmacy for more than a year.

San Francisco's Office of Economic and Workforce Development awarded a storefront opportunity grant to fund the pharmacy, putting two familiar faces in charge: Cathy Davis and Geoffrea Morris of Bayview Senior Services, the same pair who launched the D10 Community Market in 2024 — a free grocery store for low-income residents built to address Bayview's food access gap. The Community Pharmacy appears to be the same model applied to medication: a community-run operation filling space the private market vacated.

The vacancy has a specific origin. Bayview-Hunters Point — a neighborhood of nearly 35,000 residents — lost its last Walgreens in 2025, when the chain closed both of its locations in the neighborhood: one at Bayview Plaza, one on Williams Avenue. Walgreens has permanently closed twelve San Francisco locations in recent years, citing cost cuts; the exits took out pharmacies in the Western Addition and Ingleside as well as the two in Bayview. When the Bayview Plaza location shuttered, residents hoped a pharmacy would take over the storefront. According to Mission Local, which first reported the D10 Community Pharmacy announcement, an AutoZone had instead submitted a permit application in February to move in.

District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton, who has been among those pushing to restore pharmacy access, told Mission Local the effort involved outreach to medical providers, pharmacy chains, and academic institutions before the OEWD grant path opened. Dontaye Ball, president of the Bayview Merchants Association, said the news of the pharmacy — slated for a block near his restaurant — landed with particular weight. An elderly neighbor, he explained, has been depending on a medication courier since the Walgreens closed; there have been moments, he said, when medication didn't arrive in time and an emergency vehicle was needed instead.

No building permit for the pharmacy space has yet been filed with the city's Department of Building Inspection — the DataSF permits database shows no recent filings on Third Street — and no opening date has been set. Bayview-Hunters Point recorded 605 service requests to 311 in the past week and 21 eviction filings in the past 90 days, most recently a cluster on the 800 block of Jamestown Avenue.

The ice cream parlor storefront at 5668 Third still looks like what it is: an empty commercial space on the corridor. A passerby tomorrow would see the same thing. The sign, when it goes up, will be something new.