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
SF News Developer Of Emeryville Project That's Burned Twice Assumes It Was Arson Fire & Smoke coming from Oakland fire scene again. pic.twitter.com/JsOx3B2t6d— Cbarnard (@CornellBarnard) May 13, 2017 It's not a big logical leap to make, and now developer Rick Holliday, head of
SF News Five-Alarm Fire Hits The Same Emeryville Construction Site That Burned Last Summer #Emeryville: #ALCOFirefighters & Oakland firefighters battling multi-alarm fire at 3800 San Pablo. #workingfire pic.twitter.com/TIQS3JiwGB— Alameda County Fire (@AlamedaCoFire) May 13, 2017 Someone or something really does not want this Emeryville
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Murals Mysteriously Painted Over As Bar Faces Fears Of Demolition Unlucky 13: After Demolition Permit Application Posted, Bar's Murals Vanish https://t.co/Sg9FrIeRuO by @editcatsf pic.twitter.com/wzEIiOVDMB— Hoodline (@Hoodline) May 4, 2017 A curious twist in the newly unfolding saga
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Won't Be Demolished For Condos Anytime Soon, But Long-Term Odds Are Bad San Franciscans who love dive bars (which is most of us!), and San Franciscans who think the city needs to build more housing ASAP, which, come on, should definitely be all of us,
SF News 7-Unit Elbo Room Development Challenged By Discretionary Review Request A redevelopment plan for the Elbo Room space at the corner of Valencia and Sycamore that would add three stories to the existing two-story building to create seven units of housing could be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To Preserve Zeitgeist Patio Sunshine, Planning Commission Cuts 5 Feet Off Neighboring Development After employees of Zeitgeist saw analysis of a 28-unit development project across Valencia Street at 198 Valencia that indicated the development would cast a shadow on parts of its popular patio beer garden
SF News Leaning Boom And Concrete Walls Atop Under-Construction Skyscraper Prompt SoMa Scare, Evacuations A 2,000-pound concrete slab was reported loose and at risk of failure on top of a skyscraper that's under construction in the Rincon Hill area of SoMa. The building, at an address
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Cranes Go Marching One By One, Hurrah Observe: The wild basket crane in its natural habitat. Looks like it tends to travel in packs with its ally, the lowly cement mixer. Yep, San Francisco is in the midst of a
SF News Former SRO Damaged In Bernal Heights Fire Now Marketed As Developer 'Cash Cow' A Bernal Heights fire last June displaced 58 people when it destroyed the Cole Hardware building at 3312 Mission Street and badly damaged neighboring buildings including the Graywood Hotel, an SRO at 3308
SF News Demolition Of Long-Vacant 'Home' Restaurant Finally Starts Next Month A site at the flatiron corner of Market, Church, and 14th Streets where a single story restaurant space has been vacant since 2011 — save for squatters, lots of squatters — was active with construction
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Nearby Valencia Development Looms, Zeitgeist Files Review To Protect Beer Garden From Shadow Zeitgeist, among San Francisco's best known bars and choice few beer gardens, celebrates its 40th anniversary next month, having recently attained Legacy Business status in its wizened, grizzly old age. But just as
SF News Here Are The Latest Mission Rock Development Renderings From The Giants A new round of renderings for the proposed Mission Rock development is set to be presented this coming Monday to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and the updated images provide
SF News Supervisors Delay 25% Affordable Mission Development Blaming 'Hateful, Divisive' Public Comment Although many community voices during a public comment period at a Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday made the case to continue forward with a massive Mission District development on South Van Ness Avenue,
SF News Neighborhood Association In Wealthy Forest Hill Unanimously Opposes Affordable Housing For Seniors A proposed affordable housing project containing 150 apartments for low-income seniors, 20 to 30 percent of them formerly homeless, has given residents of San Francisco's monied Forest Hill neighborhood a frightful shock. "[It's]
SF News Developer Of Big Mid-Market Hotel And Condo Complex To Buy And Donate Nearby Parking Lot For Affordable Housing The developer of a 12-story condo and hotel project at 950-975 Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets (next to the Warfield theater) is in contract to pay $4 million for a surface
SF News Proposed SoMa Micro-Unit Development Aims To Keep Rents 30% Below City Average Because new development projects seek to recoup investments and pay off construction expenses, they usually hit the market with higher-than-average rents. Therefore it's something of a surprise when a residential development isn't readily
SF News Massive Condo Development Coming To 1001 Van Ness, Former KRON 4 HQ KRON 4 said in 2014 that its parent company would put 1001 Van Ness (at O'Farrell), previously its mothership, on the market, as Socketsite wrote at that time. You know what would be
SF News New Ballot Measure Would Make Developers Replace Art And Manufacturing Space In their last regularly scheduled meeting before September, your San Francisco Supervisors eked out one final ballot measure for your consideration this November. It's on us to decide whether certain development projects — just
SF News Rec & Parks' Capital Committee Votes On Buying SoMa Land For New Park San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department has struck a deal with Ares Commercial Properties to potentially buy five parcels of prime SoMa land on 11th Street between Minna and Natoma Streets that together
SF News Here's The 60-Story Tower Proposed For The Final 'Super-Tall' Transbay Parcel Sitting beside the Transbay Transit Center, 546 Howard Street's Parcel F is the last "super-tall" site zoned for development of greater than 550 feet. Anything that tall has the potential to radically alter
SF News Latest Of Many Redesigns Revealed For Planned Development At Church And Market Home restaurant once occupied a triangular parcel at the intersection of Market and Church at 2100 Market, but after that closed in 2011, getting someone or something on the premises — other than squatters
SF News Five-Story, 50-Unit Residential Building Proposed For Valencia Near 14th Getting anything built in the Mission District is very challenging! For evidence of that, here's a fun example from last year, or the story of some more recent but long-delayed movement on the
SF News Historic Gay Bars Cited As Possible Reason To Block Massive Mid-Market Development A massive, 12-story mixed-use development that would include 250 residences and 232 hotel rooms just ran into trouble, and could potentially be pushed back years, as a result of the efforts of one
