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.
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.
