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.
SF News One Oak Project at Foot of Van Ness Seeks to Add 150 Units The delayed 40-story tower at Oak and Van Ness, which has undergone redesigns and some financing hiccups in the last few years, is back before Planning in revised form.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eight-Story Condo Development With Replacement Grubstake Diner on Ground Floor Wins Planning Approval The Planning Commission took up the project at 1525 Pine Street on Thursday, six years after it was first proposed, and the vote was 4-2 in favor of approval. Meanwhile, the beloved Grubstake lives on.
SF News 27-Story Residential Tower Likely to Add to Quickly Changing SoMa Skyline A 27-story residential tower — an infill development slated for a SoMa alley that's been in the design and planning stages for over four years now — is set to get its entitlements this week, if all goes well at the Planning Commission.
SF News Multiple 30-Story Towers In SoMa Are Set to Bring Almost 1,400 New Residential Units to the Neighborhood Several tall residential towers are in planning and pre-construction stages in central SoMa, and together they'll be bringing almost 1,400 new residential units to San Francisco — because contrary to many headlines of the past year, developers still think people are going to want to live here.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Parking Lots Could Become 2,900-Unit Residential Village The owner of the Stonestown Galleria mall property has been conducting workshops with nearby neighborhoods to discuss a future development that could create a new neighborhood out of what is now just 30 acres of surface parking lots.
SF News Mid-Market Condo/Hotel Project Delayed; Hotel and Restaurant Won't Open Until 2022 The 408,000-square-foot development at 950-974 Market Street, which began construction in 2018 and was slated to be completed this year, is delayed — in part because of the pandemic and the state of tourism.
SF News 25-Story '5M' Office Tower Tops Out in SoMa, Still Has No Tenant The market for office space in SoMa was white hot when the massive 5M project got its approvals six years ago. But now that the 640,000-sf office building at 415 Natoma is nearing completion, it may have a hard time getting filled.
SF News Massive New Development Announced In Fillmore District on Site of 70s-Era Affordable Project A huge, 2,515-unit residential project — one of the largest ever to be proposed or built in San Francisco — may be on its way to the Fillmore/Western Addition, and it's being driven by the same church group that built 382 units on the same site 47 years ago.
Business & Tech Controversial Short-Term Rental Company Sonder Sues To Get Out Of Lease At Church and Market Sonder, the company that offers corporate-style rentals of furnished units for several months at a time and which controversially took control of a building at the intersection of Church and Market Streets last summer, is now suing to get out of its lease at the property, citing the pandemic.
SF News Revised Designs Revealed For 47-Story Tower at 30 Van Ness New proposed plans have arrived for a 520-foot, 47-story mixed-use building on the site of a shorter, city-owned building (where a Walgreens lives) at the corner of Van Ness and Market.
SF News Developer Coins New Neighborhood For New Highrise: 'Van Mission' This no-man's land between SoMa and the Mission, where Van Ness becomes South Van Ness, has been dubbed Van Mission by the marketing materials of a new high-rise. But will anyone ever really call it that?
SF News Potrero Power Station Nears Approval For Major Redevelopment Project Another mega-project in San Francisco is inching its way toward final approvals, and this one would transform the 29-acre, waterfront Potrero Power Station site into a mixed use complex of 2,600 residential units and 1.8 million square feet of new commercial space.
SF News 40-Story Tower at Van Ness and Market Delayed as Developer Seeks Buyer A 420-foot, 40-story residential tower at the intersection of Market Street, Oak Street, and Van Ness, dubbed One Oak, in planning since 2014, apparently doesn't "pencil" in the parlance of developers, and its entitlements are now up for grabs.
SF News 61-Story Tower Designed By Salesforce Tower Architects Will Be SF's 5th Tallest A 61-story mixed-used tower planned for the Transbay District's Parcel F — the largest of the remaining projects in the district not yet underway — just won a key approval at the Planning Commission on Thursday.
SF News Group Of Neighbors In Less Dense SF Neighborhood Sues to Block High-Density Housing Project Another week, another NIMBY effort in San Francisco — despite all the groundswell of support for the idea that the city needs more housing, not more hemming and hawing over it.
SF News Construction Set To Begin Next Year On 3,900-Unit Development at SF's Southern Border The long-awaited, long-delayed, enormous Baylands development in the southeastern corner of San Francisco — and across the county line in Brisbane — has finally gotten a start date.
SF News Massive New West Oakland Development With 32-Story Tower Moves Forward A huge new residential development encompassing an entire city block in West Oakland — with over 1,000 units and 35,000 square feet of retail — was unanimously approved by Oakland's Planning Commission on Thursday, with plenty of community support.
SF News Planning Commission Approves One Of Two Enormous New Office and Condo Complexes In SoMa A pair of new developments will bring a combined 800,000 square feet of new commercial and office space to SoMa, as well as a pair of sloping condo towers containing 960 units. One has already been approved, while the other awaits approval next week.
SF News Massive 5M Office and Condo Project Set To Begin Construction In SoMa The long-delayed 5M project, a dramatic renovation of several South of Market blocks, will add a 400-condo skyscraper, gobs of new office space, and a grass rooftop park to the Chronicle building.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Goodbye, Home Restaurant Check it out! The long-vacant Home Restaurant building has disappeared at Church and Market, about a week after demolition began. This triangular pile of rubble, bounded on the back side by 14th Street,
SF News Former Home Restaurant Might Finally Be Demolished This Fall, Making Way For Condos Just a quick update on the highly visible development site at the flatiron corner of Market Street, Church, and 14th, formerly the home of Home restaurant: Developer Brian Spiers's earlier revealed plans for
SF News Can SF Developers Afford 25 Percent Affordability? City Controller Says No, Others Still Say Yes In a report that is sure to spark debate for the coming months ahead of the November election, City Controller Ben Rosenfield has completed a feasibility analysis requested by the Board of Supervisors
SF News Governor Brown's 'By Right' Housing Fast-Track Proposal Dead In The Water A proposal by Governor Jerry Brown to pass sweeping legislation that would speed up residential development across the state by bypassing various local review processes has lost all momentum and appears fully dead,
Arts & Entertainment Magic Theatre Expanding To Mid-Market, But Not Relocating When we originally heard about the plans for the massive new mixed-use development headed for a long blighted block of Mid-Market, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, back in early 2014, it was set