Data reports from public records
Public records, picked clean.
Governments publish a steady stream of useful facts: new licenses, permits, property sales, surplus auctions. It's buried in raw filings. We collect it, clean it up, and send the businesses who profit from knowing first a short, plain-English report every week.
Reports
One desk, many records.
Each report follows one kind of public record and goes to the businesses that can act on it. Same method every time: straight from the source, sorted, in plain English.
The Turnover
Bay Area restaurants and bars opening, closing and changing hands, from California liquor-license filings.
See a sample →Property tax sales
Tax-defaulted properties headed to county auction, with dates, minimum bids and parcel details.
Permit watch
New remodel, addition and commercial build-out permits, for the trades and suppliers who bid on them.
Surplus finds
Government surplus and liquidation auctions across Northern California, sorted by what's actually worth bidding on.
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Now publishing · The Turnover
Be the first call, not the fifth.
Bay Area restaurants and bars opening, closing and changing hands, from California liquor-license filings across all nine counties.
New restaurants pick their equipment, suppliers and service companies weeks before they open. A new filing usually shows up one to three months ahead, while those decisions are still open. The Turnover tells you who they are.
- Equipment dealers: they buy the kitchen before they open the doors.
- Liquidators and used equipment: hear about closed kitchens before the auction listing goes up.
- Service companies (refrigeration, hoods, install): new owners often bring in new vendors. Be the one they meet first.
- Distributors: win the account before the first delivery.
- Opening soonNorth Beach Pizza · Berkeley
- Opening soonMohi Pasta · Morgan Hill
- Changing handsPeking Restaurant · San Francisco
- Closed or pausedFull-service restaurant · San Francisco
How it works · The Turnover
From raw filing to your inbox.
The state files it
Every business day, California posts new liquor-license applications, transfers, issued licenses and surrenders.
We pick it clean
We keep the nine Bay Area counties, sort each filing into opening, changing hands or closing, and put it in plain English.
You get the short list
One email a week: who, where, and what stage they're at. Facts from the record, no opinions.
Straight from the source
Every entry comes from a public state filing. Nothing guessed, nothing made up.
Early, not late
Filings land weeks before grand-opening signs go up, or before a closed kitchen is sold off.
Short on purpose
Built to read in two minutes on a phone between jobs.
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