SF News Historic Designation for Stonestown’s Old Movie Theater, Which Is Not Even Used Anymore, Could Alter Housing Plan The now-shuttered Regal UA Stonestown Twin movie theater apparently has some claim to a historic designation, which could throw a monkey wrench into a proposed 2,900-unit housing development.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Won't Be Demolished For Condos Anytime Soon, But Long-Term Odds Are Bad San Franciscans who love dive bars (which is most of us!), and San Franciscans who think the city needs to build more housing ASAP, which, come on, should definitely be all of us,
SF News [Update] Supposed Escape Tunnel Under Historic Market Street Gay Bars Fails To Delay Large Development We learned last month of a skirmish occurring as a massive condo and hotel development at 950 Market Street is heading for its final approvals, due to the presence of several buildings that
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 HBO Helps Spruce Up West Oakland's Central Station for Hemingway Movie Oakland's Central Station was once the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railway, and the Beaux Arts train station that still stands at the end of 16th Street near the 980 freeway has seen
SF News Preservationists and Castro Gays Battle Over Rainbow Banners Those rainbow flag banners that hang vertically off the tops of lampposts along Market Street in the Castro? They're apparently illegal according to historic preservationists, who say that nothing but temporary banners are
SF News New Civic Center Hostel Will Nearly Double the Number of Hostel Beds In City A proposed "upscale hostel" at 7th and Market with a restaurant, basement nightclub, and two large rooftop terraces was approved by the Planning Commission last week, and once completed in 2012 it will
SF News Tonga Room's Fate to Be (Possibly) Decided Today The fate of the Tonga Room, that beloved but not often crowded Tiki bar in the bowels of the Fairmont Hotel, is on the docket at the Historic Preservation Commission's meeting today. Though
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preservationists Still Trying to Save Tonga Room Writing in the Chron, John King examines the current state of the Tonga Room preservation debate, in which preservation architect Chris VerPlanck is preparing a nomination package for saving the Fairmont hotel's pseudo-Polynesian
SF News Preservationist Battle Over Historic Longshoremen's Hall In case you aren't tuned into City Planning and Architectural Preservation news, the SFBG has a new piece about the battle surrounding the possible demolition of 113 Steuart Street, which once housed the
SF News Support Local Architecture You can pick from 25 sites, which include perennial favorites like the Roxie and the Fox Theater in Oakland, but also some gems you may not have thought of, like the neon signs
