What We Do
What we do
Working for Fillmore Street, all year
The Fillmore Merchants Association exists so the businesses on Fillmore Street can do together what none of them could do alone: market the neighborhood, keep the street maintained, safe and secure, and speak with one voice at City Hall.
Fillmore Jazz Festival 2026. Photo by Lynn Friedman.
Neighborhood event
The Fillmore Jazz Festival
The festival fills Fillmore Street with live music, food and visitors every summer, and brings thousands of customers to member businesses. It is free to the public and is no longer produced by the association; Tim Omi and Patti Mangan are its co-producers. The next festival is July 3 and 4, 2027.
The separate Fillmore Jazz Festival Preservation Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, raises the long-term support the festival needs.
City program
Lead the Entertainment Zone
San Francisco’s Entertainment Zones allow organized street events with live entertainment and drinks to go from licensed local businesses. The FMA is the lead and point of contact for the Upper Fillmore zone, coordinating businesses and events with the City and the police.
Advocacy
Speak for merchants
The association is involved in the City’s permitting for the street and meets regularly with the Mayor’s office and the police. When a merchant has a concern, from street closures to safety, we bring it to the people who can act on it.
- Citywide merchant legislative meetings every two weeks
- Merchant walks with district Supervisors
- A Mayor Merchant Walk and a Walk & Talk with a Cop, dates to be announced
Care for the street
A cleaner, safer Fillmore
Volunteer clean-ups
Sidewalk clean-ups seven days a month, run by volunteers.
Direct relationships
Direct relationships with Northern Station and the Chief of Police.
Regular meetings
Monthly small business security meetings and monthly meetings with Northern Station.
Promotion
Promote the street
The Fillmore Street directory and map, a monthly newsletter, social media features, the printed and digital shopping guide distributed to San Francisco hotel concierges and airports, and The New Fillmore all put member businesses in front of visitors and locals.
The 2026 calendar
What happens through the year
Dates are announced to members and posted on the events calendar. More programs are always in development.
Every month
- Newsletter and member communications
- Volunteer street clean-ups
- Small business security meeting
- Meeting with Northern Station
Through the year
- Merchant meetings every two months
- Quarterly merchant happy hours
- Concierge and press walks
- Small Business Week
- Fillmore Jazz Festival, July 4th weekend
- Halloween Trick or Treat
- Small Business Saturday: Shop Local
- Holiday caroling and late-night shopping
Coming soon
- Merchant walks with district Supervisors
- Walk & Talk with a Cop
- Mayor Merchant Walk
Dates to be announced.
Be part of it
Every program here is funded and powered by member businesses.