SF News SF Condos Are Starting to Sell Again, and the Twisty Mira Tower Is Almost Sold Out While condo sales, especially in downtown San Francisco high-rises, were sluggish at best through the pandemic, things appear to be turning around. And one notable tower only has a handful of units left to sell.
SF News Long-Vacant Mid-Market Condo Building Gets City Hall OK To Switch to Apartments Instead Mohammed Nuru bribery complications left a 12-story, 109-unit residential building empty for nearly three years, but that building known as The Oak just got the OK to convert from condos to apartments under a new owner who does not have any bribery charges.
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News Developer Behind Absurd 50-Story Tower Proposal In the Sunset Sues City For Not Approving It More intentional drama is being generated over the implausible 50-story condo tower a developer is proposing to build in the Sunset District, as after City Hall rejected it for the umpteenth time last month, the developer is now suing the city.
SF News Former Hemlock Tavern Site, Now 54 Units of Empty Housing, Finally Moving Forward After Condo Conversion Compromise More than 50 units of housing have sat empty for two years on property that used to be the home of Hemlock Tavern, but they can now be occupied, as the Board of Appeals rules on a developer who said they were building apartments and then switched to condos.
SF News Warriors’ Bizarre Cruise-Ship-Shaped Hotel at Chase Center Is Now ‘Indefinitely Delayed’ Is the COVID-19 era really the best time for a cruise-ship themed hotel and condo project? Perhaps the Warriors are having second thoughts, as they just announced this very strange Chase Center add-on is “indefinitely delayed.”
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
SF News Sunday Links: Even Amid COVID-19, Bay Area 'Starter' Home Prices Are Still Bonkers Rallies across the Bay Area were held Saturday to denounce hate against Asian Americans, local medical experts warn we still have a long way to go before we see an end to the pandemic, and despite falling house prices — nearly a million dollars will still only get you so far in SF.
SF News More Below Market Rate Housing Found Rented Out Illegally We know you don’t always watch the little news video reports we embed in these posts, but you really ought to watch the CBS 5 report above on homeowners scamming the system
SF News Drag Queen Carnie Asada Didn't Know She Was Promoting Condos Made Available By Ellis Act Evictions A San Francisco real estate agent hired drag queen Carnie Asada to star in a video advertising Casa de Dolores, a set of fully renovated condominiums whose developer used the Ellis Act to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019 The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Ugliest Condo Buildings In San Francisco One thing that San Francisco is most known for is its timeless and gorgeous historic architecture. The Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic that pervades our fair city, with its bay windows, decorative cornices, and detailed
SF News Proposed Van Ness Double Towers Want Double The Parking, 25 Percent More Units Plans are moving along for the tall building high-rise zone at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue, as a roughly 12-block area around that crossroads has been granted higher height allowances by the
SF News 100 Evacuated As Massive Fire Burns Near Lake Merritt Around 100 residents of homes near Lake Meritt were evacuated Monday morning, a precautionary measure after an under-construction building in the area burst into flames, Fire officials say that the blaze at a
SF News 99-Year-Old Western Addition Woman Granted One-Week Reprieve From Eviction From today's rally in solidarity for Iris Canada. 99 years strong. Eviction = Death. Let our seniors live in peace. pic.twitter.com/iro45ajyQf— Tina Cheung (@tinacheung) April 13, 2016 After a court hearing
SF News LUMINA Condo Residents Will Soon Have On-Demand Audis At Their Disposal For when Zipcar just won't do, darling, Audi is launching a new service, Audi at Home, available to lucky San Franciscans and residents of our sister city in luxury, Miami. This is an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Grubstake Owners Remain Wishy-Washy About Diner's Future Following on Monday's report that the beloved Grubstake diner would likely indeed go the way of the developer's bulldozer under new ownership, the Chronicle circled back to the buyers, who remain in escrow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, New Owner Of The Grubstake Wants To Raze It To Build Condos Despite some protestations earlier this month claiming that they would continue to run beloved late-night diner The Grubstake "as is," new almost-owners Nick Pigott and Johnny "Love" Metheny have just quietly engaged design
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seven-Story Condo Building Could Destroy Late-Night Staple The Grubstake A preliminary proposal for a new seven-story mixed-use building at 1525 Pine Street could mean the end of a longstanding eatery: The Grubstake, known to SFist for its fine patty melt and selection
SF News Multi-Year Battle Over Castro & Market Gas Station Site To Be Settled Soon Plans for a 24-unit building at the prime corner of Castro and Market Streets currently occupied by an ARCO gas station have been stymied for the past decade by various factors, not the
Arts & Entertainment Local Nightclub Owners Make Noise At City Hall Over Shutdown Threats From New Condos Lucky 13 and the Elbo Room are currently endangered. Cafe Du Nord, The Lexington, Club Cocomo and others are already gone or counting down the days. Nightclub owners aren’t laying down anymore,
SF News Here's What $5 Million Buys You On South Park Two new expensive luxury condos just hit the market and given what I've been hearing about the market will probably not stay there long on the ever-desirable South Park in SoMa, listed for
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Development May Look Like On The Sullivan's Funeral Home Site In The Castro Right after the new year we learned of some development plans for one of the last remaining, "underdeveloped" parking lot sites in the Castro neighborhood, and that the one surrounding the historic Sullivan's
SF News Market And Duboce Site Gets A Condo Plan The last three years have drastically transformed the area of Market Street between Castro and Church as previously undeveloped lots have seen new luxury rentals and condos rise swiftly out of the ground.
SF News SF Not Quite As Bad As Manhattan Or Miami When It Comes To Absentee Condo Owners Remember back in September when 48 Hills sorted through a bunch of condo sales data to determine that some 39 percent of new condos in the last 14 years had been sold as