In 2005, after nearly a decade of wrangling and infighting at City Hall about having a warehouse-style chain retailer in the area, Home Depot received approval for a 100,000-square-foot store near the border of Bernal Heights and Bayview-Hunters Point.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 4, 2008.

Police Lt. William Canning told members of the San Francisco Police Commission Wednesday evening that since February, police have conducted 25 robbery abatement team decoy operations, or RAT ops, in the city's Bayview, Ingleside, Mission, Southern and Tenderloin police districts, resulting in the arrests of 109 robbery suspects.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on September 4, 2008.

Maxwell and Bayview community leaders will prevail in keeping the property commercial, if Lowe's is not scared off.

Published by SocketSite on September 4, 2008.

Pogo was found stabbed to death a week later in a Dumpster in the Bayview, animal care officials said.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 3, 2008.

The Eastern Neighborhoods plan envisions a huge new influx of housing into the area, and city planners admit the result will be a loss of blue-collar jobs. So the city can't let the Bayshore site sit empty for years while some North Carolina–based megaretailer decides the neighborhood's fate. And the last thing the Bayview, the Mission, and Bernal Heights need is another drawn-out conflict over a home improvement store.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 3, 2008.