SF News Massive Office and Housing Development Proposed for What Is Now Just a Bunch of SF Caltrain Tracks The latest twist in the ambitious plans to extend Caltrain to the Salesforce Transit Center is a developer hoping to send Caltrain tracks underground, and cover that land with new towers, one of which would be taller than the Transamerica Pyramid.
SF News Latest, Greatest Version of Ambitious Stonestown Development Gets Approval, With Even More Housing The grandiose plan to turn Stonestown Galleria and its parking lot into a vibrant housing village with new parks was approved by the SF Planning Commission, and it’s been souped up from 2,900 housing units to now 3,500 units.
SF News Infamous Nordstrom Parking Lot Will Remain a Parking Lot Five More Years, City Hall Not Happy About It The notoriously rejected 27-story residential tower in a SoMa parking lot had its Plan B version approved, but now the developer is putting the project on ice, and a highly frustrated Planning Commission approved letting it remain a parking lot for another five years.
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Halt Environmental Reviews In Downtown SF for 10 Years As downtown San Francisco still has a glut of unused office space, state Senator Scott Wiener says he’s pushing legislation for a decade-long elimination of the environmental review mandate known as CEQA from downtown projects, in hopes of spurring conversion to uses like housing.
Business & Tech New 71-Story Tower Proposed for Howard and First Streets, Would Be City’s Third-Tallest Building Plans have been submitted for what would be the third-tallest building in San Francisco if completed, a 71-story tower at 530 Howard Street that would utilize a new state law to bypass SF Board of Supervisors approval.
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 Developer Wins Bid to Nix Tennis Courts From SoMa Tennis Club Redevelopment The one-time SF Bay Tennis Club has been razed to the ground, and after a new developer promised and then backed out of a promise to put tennis courts on their forthcoming project, the SF Planning commission approved the no-tennis-court version Thursday.
SF News Los Altos Hills Homeowner Is Giving the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ a Go, Submits Plans to Build 20-Unit Complex On His Property In what appears to be the first Bay Area attempt at the “builder’s remedy” for a town without an approved housing element, a Los Altos Hills property owner is trying to subdivide his home into 20 units. Though he admits that if the scheme works, he’s just going to sell the property and move.
SF News Supervisors Pass Ambitious Housing Element Plan to Build 82,000 New Units By 2031 A nearly year-long housing policy battle appears to have come to a surprisingly harmonious conclusion, as the SF Board of Supervisors just unanimously passed a state-mandated housing element, and in an unexpected surprise, the state says it will approve the plan.
SF News $2 Billion Potrero Power Station Redevelopment Project Finally Gets Underway Hoping to transform “an industrial wasteland” into the “next hot neighborhood of San Francisco,” there’s a $2 billion redevelopment underway at the Potrero Power Plant by Pier 70, with housing, hotels, hotels and office space.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Lobbying Against Controversial SoMa High Rise That 27-story residential tower slated for a Nordstom’s parking lot, which the supervisors shot down last October, has now generated a complaint with the SF Ethics Commission that the district’s former supervisor Jane Kim improperly lobbied against it.
SF News Slain ‘Monster in the Mission’ Property Up for Sale, Local Nonprofit Interested in Buying The developer of the wildly unpopular proposed “Monster in the Mission” luxury condo and apartment project has given up the ghost, and a community group hopes to swoop in and build 100 percent affordable housing.
SF News Lucky 13 Survives a Little Longer, but Developer Wants to Triple the Apartment Complex The building owner starts still wants raze Lucky 13 and build an apartment complex, but instead of 33 units, now they want 90 units.
SF News The Bay's Mare Island at the Center of Fight Over Redevelopment and Nature Conservancy Mother Nature’s reclaimed much of Mare Island since its Naval base heyday, making it a haven for native flora and fauna. But recent battles over its public access, wildfires, and in-limbo development plans threaten the Bay Area Eden’s ecological health.
SF News So-Called ‘Historic Laundromat’ Property Sold, But High-Rise Still Likely to Replace It The Wash Club lavanderia has a new owner who will probably attempt to develop a similar eight-story complex to the one its previous owner proposed that will generate the same criticism.
SF News New 'Zig Zagging' Tower Proposed For Oakland Chinatown Would Be City's Tallest Tower Oakland's skyline could soon be changing as developers have filed a proposal for a unique new building that would tower over businesses and residences in Oakland's Chinatown. According to a report from the
Arts & Entertainment Architect Richard Neutra's First SF Project Illegally Razed By New Owner A house on Twin Peaks originally designed by renowned California architect Richard Neutra and constructed in 1936 has been completely demolished, and Socketsite suggests that the developer behind this transgression will likely just
SF News Ohlone Indian Gravesite With 32 Skeletons Could Turn Into Lawsuit For Fremont Developer A few weeks back we learned of a developing situation in Fremont where 32 centuries-old skeletons were unearthed during excavations for a townhouse development there, some of whose units have already been sold
SF News Eviction Of 1,800 Residents On Treasure Island Sounds Like A Real Mess It's getting closer to the time when Treasure Island is going to be largely demolished to make way for a massive redevelopment project that has been in the works for over a decade.
SF News Sinking Millennium Tower Will Tilt 10 More Inches By 2019, Lawyers Argue It’s been ten whole days since the sinking Millennium Tower has been in the news, which is pretty good for the troubled development that. But attorneys for homeowners suing Millennium partners insist
SF News New Renderings Reveal 579-Unit Development Planned At 12th And Market Property along Market Street at 12th that belongs to the UA Local 38 Plumbers Union a notable union of plumbing companies and individuals - across the street from Zuni, is slated for redevelopment
SF News Boutique Hotel With Roof Deck Planned For 18th Street In The Castro Plans for a modern new hotel in the heart of #TheCastro #CastroSF #RealestateSF https://t.co/at2tGEMvMC pic.twitter.com/qyHedYLn64— SocketSite (@SocketSite) July 24, 2017 A four-story, 12-room boutique hotel is in
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 Plaza With Tallest Sculpture In The City Opens Today At Eighth And Mission SoMa workers looking for another new outdoor spot to sit and eat lunch or nap off the previous evening’s hangover get a new courtyard/plaza today, as the ten-years-in-development Trinity Place at
