CVS announcement to shutter its store at 701 Van Ness on February 24 created panic among the Cathedral Hill and the neighboring Tenderloin communities, especially for senior citizens, people with disabilities, and low-income residents who depend on the store for their medications and essentials, and cannot go to other stores to get what they need.
The store closing would have created a pharmacy desert and devastating effects on the communities, as I wrote last week.
After hearing the news on the CVS closure, the Van Ness Batman, District 2 Supervisor, Stephen Sherrill, got to work. In the morning of January 21, he texted me:…