SF News Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
SF News 67-Story Residential Tower at South Van Ness and Market Is Moving Forward A stalled residential project which could make up nearly 1,000 of the 82,000 new units San Francisco is mandated to build in the next half-decade appears to be back in motion and headed toward construction.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Developer Buys Mostly Vacant Live-Work Building on Mid-Market A Mid-Market building full of affordable studio units that was the subject of a protracted eviction fight in the last decade is now slated to become home to 400 sleeping pods, if a developer gets his way.
SF News Yet Another Safeway Site, In Mission/Bernal, Slated For Possible Redevelopment With Housing SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores.
SF News Plan Finally Emerges For 1,800-Unit Development at Former Fillmore Safeway A developer is looking to build 3,500 housing units in San Francisco in the coming years, about half of which would be in a mixed-use development at the site of the former Safeway in the Fillmore.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Proposal Starts Slogging Through City Hall, With Both NIMBY and YIMBY Opposition Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan could be his signature accomplishment and add 36,000 housing units citywide. Or it could get people pissed enough to recall him. We’ll start learning which this week when it heads to the Planning Commission.
Business & Tech Site of Long-Dead Oceanwide Tower Project In Downtown SF Back In Play With New Development Team Remember that planned 61-story tower at First and Mission streets that a Chinese developer broke ground on in 2016, only to run into pre-pandemic financial trouble and then fully halt construction in mid-2020? Well it may not be a semi-filled hole in the ground much longer.
SF News 425-Unit Potrero Hill Housing Project Breaks Ground After Five Years In Limbo, Now 100% Affordable A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.
SF News Developer Proposes 700-Foot Office Tower on Site of Golden Gate University In SF Golden Gate University, which made it known last year that it is using only a fraction of its main campus building at 536 Mission Street and was seeking a buyer so that it can downsize somewhere, appears to have found that buyer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Contain 167-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County at 30% New plans for a 258-unit apartment building were announced for the long vacant 360 Fifth Street site in SoMa; a San Mateo County official pleaded not guilty to embezzling $800,000 over eight years; and a brush fire in Solano County has been contained at 30 percent.
SF News Revised Plans Call For Very Tall New Tower at Former PG&E Headquarters, 150 Feet Taller Than Salesforce A proposed new office tower would become the tallest building on the West Coast, and would tower above Salesforce Tower by 150 feet, under a new plan by developer Hines for the former PG&E headquarters complex near the foot of Embarcadero.
SF News Newsom Signs Major Rollback of CEQA Reviews, With a Big Carve-Out for Big Tech Gavin Newsom claims it’s the “most consequential housing reform in modern history” that he just exempted most urban housing projects from environmental review, as the new state budget has some additions that hope to weaken the notorious CEQA.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rules That Environmental Impact Reports Must Focus on Project at Hand A unanimous Supreme Court, with one justice recused, ruled Thursday that the 1970 environmental law often used to stymie or slow down infrastructure and housing development does not require review documents that take into account secondary and tertiary effects of a project on other businesses.
Business & Tech 1,500 Residential Units Proposed on Former Tennis Club Property In SoMa A change made in March to the Central SoMa Plan has already yielded some interest from a developer, with a long-stalled development property at 88 Bluxome now back in the mix as a high-rise residential complex.
SF News Ground Is Broken For 168-Unit Affordable Project on Site of Pandemic-Time Tent Camp In Mission A site that had been one of several to spark controversy and protest in the last decade as market-rate developers were ravenous to build in the Mission District is now going to become the largest 100%-affordable development in the neighborhood in 20 years.
SF News Developer of Office-to-Residential Conversions In Talks to Buy Downtown SF Wells Fargo Building The longtime headquarters of Wells Fargo on Montgomery Street may become a residential building as a developer already working on office conversions in SF is reportedly close to buying the property.
SF News Billionaire Who Bought Up Part of Fillmore Street Promises New Theater and All-Day Diner Neil Mehta, the venture capitalist who we learned last year was the mystery buyer of the former Clay Theater and multiple retail properties on Upper Fillmore Street, says in a new podcast interview that he only wants the best for the neighborhood.
SF News Planned Residential Tower at South Van Ness and Market Grows Taller, Would Be Fourth Tallest Building In SF Plans for a residential tower at 10 South Van Ness Avenue have just gotten slightly taller as permit applications were just filed, and the building has grown by over 100 units since the last plans we saw in the fall.
SF News Tower Project at Sansome and Washington Moves Forward, Including First SF Five-Star Hotel In 30 Years A new office tower, which would be the first to be built in the Financial District since 2018 and would include the first five-star hotel to be constructed in the city in three decades, is moving along at 530 Sansome Street, with a developer who's bullish about downtown's future.
SF News Residents Sign Petition, Push Back on 22-Story Highrise In Outer Sunset Once again there is opposition to a large development on San Francisco's sleepy west side, and while the latest proposal isn't massively out of scale like the last one, it is still much bigger than anything the Outer Sunset has ever seen.
SF News 22-Story, Mostly Affordable Tower Nears Final Approvals In Lower Nob Hill A 303-unit residential project split into two adjoining buildings has used creative financing and obscure state programs to overcome some funding hurdles, and is on its way to starting construction in SF's Lower Nob Hill.
SF News California Forever Sees New Way to Get Around Voter Approval For Their Solano County City-From-Scratch Sensing that public opinion was not going their way last year, and facing legal fights on several fronts, a billionaire-backed effort to build a new utopian city from farmland in eastern Solano County may head down a new path.
SF News Chronicle Staff to Temporarily Leave Historic Headquarters as Hearst Prepares to Demolish Next-Door Building The Hearst Corporation is looking to revive a stalled condo tower project on the site of the former SF Examiner offices — a building at 110 Fifth Street that is connected to the Chronicle headquarters by a bridge over Minna Street.
SF News Still Very Tall Building Proposed for Sloat Boulevard Site The Outer Sunset could still end up with a very tall, somewhat out-of-scale new residential development on the site of Sloat Garden Center, where a previous developer had proposed an insanely tall, 50-story tower.
SF News Revised Tower Plan at South Van Ness and Market Adds Ten Stories, Totals 950 Units A very tall new residential tower may still rise at the site of the former Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness, with the developer submitting revised plans to the city for the long-stalled project.
