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Since August 2023, residents of the Inner Sunset have been waiting anxiously for Progress Hardware, which dates to 1948, to reopen its doors after a three-alarm fire shuttered them that year.

“We were there almost every other day,” said Christian Routzen, whose clothing store, San Franpsycho , is located around the corner from Progress Hardware on Ninth Avenue near Golden Gate Park. “We shop for everything from hardware to paint to keys. Most stores on Ninth Avenue were built from hardware from them.”

During the months after the Aug. 8, 2023 fire, support po

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