SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Blondie's Bar In The Mission Is Endangered Too Bars in the city where you can still drink on the cheap are slowly getting picked off, one by one, and the latest that appears to be in the sights of potential developers
Arts & Entertainment Condo Building Replacing Lucky 13 Just As Ugly As Expected If you were expecting great beauty and architectural innovation to replace beloved dive bar Lucky 13 near Church and Market, you obviously haven't been up on the dominant trend in Upper
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Doubles Number Of Affordable Units If you're building a mammoth development in San Francisco like the one proposed by Maximus Real Estate Partners for 330-ish apartments at 16th and Mission, there are a couple of
SF News Sixth Street Gentrification? Affordable Housing Advocates Fear New 5M Development Will Push Out SROs The enormous new proposed development on property partly owned by The San Francisco Chronicle, dubbed 5M (short for 5th and Mission) has the potential to be transformational for the section of SoMa around
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Development May Look Like On The Sullivan's Funeral Home Site In The Castro Right after the new year we learned of some development plans for one of the last remaining, "underdeveloped" parking lot sites in the Castro neighborhood, and that the one surrounding the
SF News New (Improved?) Renderings For 7-Story Condo At Church And Market The four-years-vacant former Home restaurant property at 2100 Market — a notable eye-sore that at least didn't become a Chipotle, as was possible — has issued an update to last
SF News Market And Duboce Site Gets A Condo Plan The last three years have drastically transformed the area of Market Street between Castro and Church as previously undeveloped lots have seen new luxury rentals and condos rise swiftly out of the ground.
SF News Transbay Developers Only Bluffing, Will Not Sue City As it happens, all that noise last fall from several of the big developers involved in the Transbay district over the special assessment taxes they have to pay to the city was just
SF News Even More Teeny Micro-Units Proposed For Hayes Valley Remember those 174-square foot shoeboxes that are going into one of the multiple narrow residential lots along the east side of Octavia Boulevard? Well, the whole stretch is filling out, planning-wise,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pop-Up Beer Garden Next To AT&T Park To Feature Anchor Steam, 4505 Burgers A Proxy-esque food-and-retail development in the parking lot behind AT&T Park called The Yard will greet baseball fans in the 2015 season, as the Chronicle is reporting. Like
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
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
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
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&
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
