SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Gets New Renderings, Revisions The planned redevelopment of the Stonestown Galleria property, which will turn what are currently parking lots into new residential, retail, and office space, has received some revisions, which include dropping a planned 200-room hotel.
SF News Sierra Club Comes Out Swinging About Proposed New City Backed by Billionaires In Solano County The Solano County chapter of the Sierra Club held a press conference Tuesday to express their opposition to a proposed plan, revealed in August, to build a new city east of Fairfield — a project that currently has the name California Forever.
SF News 'California Forever' Group Planning New Utopian City In Solano County Faces First Legal Drama There is likely to be plenty of litigation ahead for the outfit funded by a group of tech billionaires known as Flannery Associates, as they navigate the nearly uncharted waters of trying to build a city out of whole cloth in hyper-political, 21st Century California.
SF Politics State Issues Scathing New Report on San Francisco's Arduously Slow Process for Approving New Housing It's not new news, but a state agency has issued a report confirming that SF's approvals process for new construction is the slowest of any other city in the state.
SF News Mid-Market Luxury Apartment Tower NEMA, a Symbol of Last Tech Boom, Faces Foreclosure A decade ago we were cringing in horror over the douchey marketing video for a luxury apartment tower that went up next door to the building we used to call the Twitter Building. Now, it's facing foreclosure.
SF News They Built a New City From Farmland In the Central Valley, and It Hasn't Totally Gone as Planned Mountain House in San Joaquin County serves as an example of how even in the best of circumstances, the process of placemaking can take a very long time.
SF News Developer Behind Imagined New Solano County City Says Billionaire Group Wants to Build a 'City of Yesterday' Confirming fears by planning experts that the billionaire group behind an imagined, utopian city built on arid agricultural land in Solano County will be retrograde in concept, visionary developer Jan Sramek said as much in an interview with KQED today.
SF News Imagined New City In Solano County Gets Its First Website, With Illustrations The coming-out-from-the-shadows process of Flannery Associates, the VC-backed group hoping to build a new city in Solano County continues with a new, fairly surface-level website for the project, the parent company of which we now know is called California Forever.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Croissant Maker Arsicault Bakery Heads to Cool New Building In Mission Rock One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.
SF News Mystery Company Buying Up Solano Co. Land Appears to Want to Build New City With 'Tens of Thousands' of Homes The mystery may soon get solved about the massive land-buying spree near Fairfield by one private company, and it may not be so sinister after all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Construction Stops on Huge Tower at Van Ness and Market Construction has halted at Hayes Point, the large mixed-use tower going up the foot of Van Ness; former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has filed a legal claim against the mayor; and a Montana judge has ruled in favor of some environmentally conscious kids who sued the state.
SF News Hayes Valley Residents Pushing Back Against Affordable Housing Development at Site of PROXY Proxy fight indeed, as between 50-75 units of affordable housing are slated to be built at Hayes Valley’s outdoor event and retail space PROXY, but now neighbors are fighting to retain the parcel as open space.
SF News First Highrise on Treasure Island 'Tops Off' at 22 Stories The first-ever highrise building on Treasure Island, the 250-unit apartment tower dubbed Tidal House, just "topped off" Wednesday with a final steel beam hoisted into place on the top, 22nd story of the structure.
SF Politics YIMBYs Cry Foul Over Lack of Housing Approved Since Passage of SF Housing Element SF has approved barely eight new housing units per month since the city passed its ambitious Housing Element plan, but the reality is that developers haven’t been applying for many permits.
SF News Developer Wants to Build Massive Residential Building at Sloat Garden Center Site, City Pushes Back About Height A Reno-based developer with a let's-call-it-interesting past when it comes to San Francisco projects is looking to build a huge, 646-unit residential building in the Outer Sunset, and the city says they have misinterpreted how the planning code and density bonus work.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Begins Laying Out Plan to Build 82,000 New Homes, and the City's West Side Better Brace Itself "With our Housing Element approved by the state, we have the plan," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday. "Now we need to put it into action."
SF Politics Dozens of Bay Area Cities Are Late In Getting Housing Elements Certified, and YIMBY Groups Plan to Sue Today, February 1, is the state's deadline for cities to have their Housing Elements — the planning documents that dictate overall housing construction goals which serve as contracts with the state — certified. And guess what! Hundreds of towns and cities have blown the deadline.
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.
