SF News Eight Transbay Property Owners Vote To Approve Special Tax; Lawsuit May Still Be Coming Those of you paying attention will remember that there was some major brouhaha between downtown developers and City Hall after the Board of Supervisors voted to approve a previously agreed-upon special-assessment tax for
SF News Castro Funeral Home That Became A Touchstone In The AIDS Crisis To Get Converted To Condos, Retail Sullivan's Funeral Home in the Castro (2254 Market Street), one of the last vestiges of the neighborhood's pre-1960s Irish heritage and a tragic, central landmark during the AIDS crisis of the 1980's and
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Skyscraper At First And Folsom Will Look Like Some revised designs for the new Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed high-rise at First and Folsom have arrived, and it's going to be a pretty one. The project is primarily residential, with 545 new
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Unveil Pretty New Arena Renderings Though the initial, non-detailed drawings were highly toilet-like, the Warriors have today released a new set of much prettier, more detailed renderings of their new arena in Mission Bay, and they're quite handsome.
SF News New 5M Development At 5th And Mission Hires American Architect Kohn Peterson Fox, Designs Look Rad Look, you guys! Actual architecture! Forest City, the developer behind the huge new 5M mixed-use complex that's proposed for the block surrounding the Chronicle Building that we talked about last month, has just
SF News Richard Meier Out, Snøhetta In For New Tower At Market And Van Ness As the Chron's architecture guy tells us this week, plans are shifting for the prominent development site at the corner of Market and Van Ness Streets, where we earlier heard we might be
SF News Confirmed: Condo Developer Cuts Deal To Avoid Affordable Housing Requirement If you're wondering whether Mayor Ed Lee's affordable housing ballot measure, Prop K, is going to mean anything, critics will be quick to point to a recent negotiation with a big developer as
SF News Developer Moves Forward With Enormous 5M Project At 5th and Howard Forest City Development, which is also developing the massive Pier 70 project that you'll be voting on in November, has unveiled details this week of another huge project they have planned for the
SF News City Cuts Deal With Transbay District Developers For Downtown Rail Extension On Monday we talked about the rumblings from developers about how they didn't want to pony up the increasingly large sums they were on the hook for as part of a special assessment
SF News Uber Building Global Headquarters In Mission Bay On Former Salesforce Parcels News broke on Friday that the Bay Area's arguably fastest-growing enterprise, Uber, has inked a deal for a huge new global headquarters in Mission Bay, on land that was formerly part of the
SF News The Next Big Development Battle Site: The Flower Mart Over in white-hot SoMa, another property that could be making a whole lot of money for one developer is set to become the site of the next battle between that developer and a
SF News Evicted Tenants In Expensive Nob Hill TIC At Center Of Court Case Over New Ellis Act Law Remember when we talked about how 1100 Sacramento Street was set to become the city's most expensive TIC ever, and possibly its biggest? And remember how at the time there were apparently 10
SF News New Condo Tower 181 Fremont Skirts Affordable Housing Requirement The pretty new glass tower going in at 181 Fremont, in the Transbay Redevelopment District, looks like it's going to get away without including any units for non-rich people as Socketsite puts it,
SF News Condo Prices Might Actually Be Starting To Come Down In some proof-positive of the law of supply and demand, prices of newly constructed condos in San Francisco actually came down 3 percent in July. The latest monthly report from The Mark Company
Arts & Entertainment We Now Have Renderings Of Tall Towers at First and Mission, and South Van Ness and Mission That Norman Foster-designed, 910-foot tower at First and Mission Streets which did not have a complete rendering as of last week now does, along with a full, early critique by architecture critic John
SF News Affordable Housing Compromise Reached For November Ballot The battle that had been predicted on the November ballot between competing proposals by Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee on the affordable-housing question has been averted. And it sounds like Kim made
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
SF News Condo In New Linea Complex Appreciates $200K In Two Months? Everybody knows the refrain: Real estate in this town is crazy! Here's your latest exasperating evidence: A two-bedroom condo that first sold in late April for just under $1.2 million, in the
SF News 174-Square-Foot Residential Closets Coming To Octavia Are you feeling trapped in your railroad-Victorian situation with four roommates you only barely like? Well, if you can just stick it out a little longer, you'll be able to apply for the
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November ballot, Mayor Ed
SF News Jane Kim Proposing 30% Affordable Housing In New Developments Supervisor Jane Kim, while open to compromises, is proposing that the city mandate a threshold of 30% below-market-rate housing in all new developments starting next year. The proposal, which we first heard about
SF News Mission Development Property Breaks Real Estate Record A development property on 16th between Valencia and Guerrero, the Superior Automotive site at 3150 16th, just sold for $8.7 million in a land deal that may be the highest price ever
SF News San Francisco Mocked For Once Again Limiting Housing Development This is the headline from a Washington Post blog yesterday: "Voters in one of America’s most expensive cities just came up with another way to block new housing." As you may or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe May Have To Move As Developer Aims To Build High-Rise There The popular four-year-old SoMa restaurant Marlowe, which sits across the street from the CalTrain station, is in danger of having to move or close as an LA-based developer has bought the building with
SF News NEMA 2.0 Coming To Van Ness & Market The rapidly changing stretch of MidMarket will soon get another infusion of developer money and marketing materials: as The Chronicle reports, the owners of the Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness
