SF News New Owner of Transamerica Pyramid Says It Is Around 80% Leased, Promises New City Park at Its Base At some point in 2023, the iconic Transamerica Pyramid is set to emerge from a $250 million renovation, with new public amenities at its base, including restaurants and a revamped redwood park.
SF News Yes, It Takes Forever To Build Anything In San Francisco, and That Is Part of Why Luxury Housing Is All That Gets Built Anyone with even a passing connection to the real estate world in San Francisco, or anyone who knows anyone who's tried to get a permit for an addition or to build a single-family home or duplex in SF, knows that this is a yearslong process. Does it have to be? Will it ever not be?
SF News New Plan For That SoMa High-Rise On A Nordstrom Parking Lot Making Its Way Through City Hall The proposed 27-story residential tower that gained notoriety when the SF Board of Supervisors rejected it last year is back with a revised plan that went before the Planning Commission Thursday, and it generated shockingly little discussion or debate.
SF News Housing Element Drama Update: SF Still Set To Be 22,000 Units Short on State-Mandated Goal A looming state requirement that San Francisco present plans to build 82,000 housing units is starting to hit crunch time, and right now our best-case scenario is stuck at shy of 60,000 units.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
SF Politics This Winter and Spring Could Be a Chaotic Free-for-All For Developers If SF Can't Get Its Housing Element Approved A local housing activist just called San Francisco out on a rather alarming error — city officials and planners thought they had until May 31 to get the all-important revision to the general plan's Housing Element approved by the state, but the deadline is actually January 31.
SF News Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.
SF News [Update] More Bedlam in Berkeley, Protesters Retake People’s Park and Halt Construction After Park Was Fenced Off and Cleared A combination of surreal scenes in Berkeley, as protesters halt construction in People’s Park, after it was gated off and crews lopped down the park’s trees to make way for a 16-story housing project.
SF News Huge New Housing Development With 45% Affordable Units Approved for Former Transit Hub Site In SoMa The block-sized property in SoMa that became home to the temporary Transbay Transit Center in the last decade will become a three-tower complex with the tallest tower around 40 stories.
Business & Tech 40-Story Tower at the Foot of Van Ness Goes Before Planning for Reapproval as Rental Apartments Days before its entitlements are set to expire, a very tall proposed residential tower at Van Ness and Market is headed before the Planning Commission this week, now as a significantly larger, all-rental property.
SF News Another Plan For a Rundown SF Pier Emerges With Another Floating Pool, Plus a Food Hall Developers continue eyeing the sometimes vacant and mostly underutilized Port of SF properties along the Embarcadero, hoping to redevelop them into more active — and profitable — uses. But a host of regulations and legal obstacles make it an uphill climb.
SF Politics Peskin Seeks to Expand Rent Control to New Construction In SF Via Charter Amendment The SF Board of Supervisors will be seeing two proposed amendments to the city charter introduced at their Tuesday meeting, both of which set up fights between the progressive bloc of supervisors and Mayor London Breed over housing.
SF News Former Country-Western Gay Bar Property In SoMa Back on Market A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.
SF Politics San Francisco Officially Acquires Real Estate to Make 'Monster In the Mission' Project 100% Affordable Mayor London Breed’s office and the SF Board of Supervisors recently announced the completion of a deal between housing developer Crescent Heights and Maximus Real Estate Partners that will lead to an affordable housing project of 330 low-income units at 1979 Mission Street.
SF News New UCSF Parnassus Hospital Design Unveiled By Architects of deYoung Museum UCSF has released a new rendering for its proposed 15-story hospital addition at its revamped Parnassus campus, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, and it's quite pretty.
SF News Developer Unveils Plans For Downtown SF Tower That Will Almost Match Salesforce In Height What had been planned as an 818-foot tower has become an 1,066-foot tower according to newly unveiled project plans from developer Hines for a site behind the historic PG&E headquarters building in downtown SF.
SF News SoMa Tennis Club Supporters Score Win at Appeals Board; Developer Has to Face Planning Again About Removing Courts Fans of the Bay Club San Francisco Tennis facility, a replacement for which was promised by the developer of the 88 Bluxome complex when the project was approved two years ago, scored a possible win at the Board of Appeals on Wednesday.
SF News Five-Story, Saitowitz-Designed Condo Complex Slated for Belcher Street In Duboce Triangle Plans have been submitted for a five-story, 31-unit condo development on the site of a former artists' studio warehouse and gallery in Duboce Triangle, designed by Stanley Saitowitz and his firm Natoma Architects.
SF News SF Black Leaders Press City To Give the Fillmore Heritage Center Back to the Community As Reparations Community leaders along with actor Danny Glover held a press event Monday morning at the long defunct Fillmore Heritage Center complex, calling on the City of San Francisco to donate the center to a new non-profit representing the local community.
SF Politics State Agency Threatens Investigation Into Supervisors Rejecting 27-Story Residential Tower A few Sacramento lawmakers are squawking over the supes’ denial of a 495-unit project on what’s currently a SoMa parking lot, and a state agency is threatening a possible lawsuit.
SF News New Luxury Senior Complex On Van Ness to Feature 'Michelin-Rated' Meals, Very Pricy Apartments It’s not enough that San Francisco has fairly abundant luxury housing and not a lot of affordable or middle-income housing, but now we’re going to have luxury senior housing for those well-off Boomers who want to live in the city and still go to the Symphony and such.
SF News Developer Seeks to Build 75-Story Residential Tower Behind Old PG&E Building on Market Street Another very tall tower could be added to San Francisco's skyline in the coming years, if developer Hines gets what they're asking for on the downtown block that used to belong to PG&E.
SF News New Tall Skyscraper Planned Near Salesforce Tower Moves Forward With Groundbreaking Plans Despite Everything The developer behind a 61-story mixed-use tower slated to go in at 550 Howard Street announced plans today for an early 2022 groundbreaking, delivering solid evidence that developers remain very optimistic about post-pandemic San Francisco.