SF News Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Plan Approved by Board of Supervisors, Handing Lurie Major Political Win Mayor Lurie’s ambitious upzoning proposal known as the ‘family zoning’ plan passed the Board of Supervisors in a 7-4 vote Tuesday, jacking up building heights in the Sunset, Marina, and elsewhere.
SF News Meet the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ Baron of California, Who’s Influenced Housing Battles Statewide One developer in Beverly Hills has become the poster child for the “builder’s remedy” free-for-all in the current housing wars, but surprise surprise, he does not even intend to build the projects that he’s suing cities to get approved.
SF News Yet Another Safeway Site, In Mission/Bernal, Slated For Possible Redevelopment With Housing SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores.
SF Politics City Economist Report Says Lurie’s Upzoning Plan Won’t Build Much Housing, Lawsuits and Recall Threats Now Brewing A new City Hall report throws cold water on Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan, saying it won’t really build much housing. YIMBY groups are threatening to sue, while west side voters say it’s overdevelopment and are threatening a recall.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 196-Unit Apartment Complex Planned In Presidio The Presidio Trust announces plans for a new, 196-unit residential complex; a fistfight in East Oakland turned into a shooting Wednesday; and the Trump administration admits in a court filing that it has the funds the cover SNAP benefits for November.
SF News The Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Complex on Top of New Asia Restaurant Finally Happening, With New State Grant The old-style banquet hall is coming back to Chinatown’s New Asia restaurant that is now a grocery store, along with 175 units of affordable housing on top, thanks to a $33.5 million state grant that Mayor Lurie says just came through.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Plan Narrowly Passes Planning Commission, Right Along Party Lines A ten-hour-long Planning Commission meeting allowed Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan to clear its first legislative hurdle on Thursday, but the SF Board of Supervisors seems primed to add a ton of amendments to the ambitious upzoning proposal.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Proposal Starts Slogging Through City Hall, With Both NIMBY and YIMBY Opposition Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan could be his signature accomplishment and add 36,000 housing units citywide. Or it could get people pissed enough to recall him. We’ll start learning which this week when it heads to the Planning Commission.
SF News 425-Unit Potrero Hill Housing Project Breaks Ground After Five Years In Limbo, Now 100% Affordable A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.
SF News Much of Bay Area Lagging Far Behind Even SF on State-Mandated Housing Goals It’s no secret that San Francisco is falling short of its state-mandated housing goals, having permitted only 5% of what new state requirements demand. But many cities across the Bay Area are doing worse, and struggling to hit just 1% or 2%.
Arts & Entertainment Temple SF Owner Buys Historic Oakland Greyhound Site for Event Venue, Housing The owner of SF’s Temple Nightclub has bought Oakland’s long-vacant Greyhound station. Plans include pop-up events, a rooftop bar, and eventually multifamily housing, years after ravers briefly took over the crumbling Beaux Arts building.
SF News Sausalito Neighbor Dispute Escalates With Fistfights, Food Tossing, and Restraining Orders A long-running neighborhood feud in Sausalito over a home remodel and an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) has escalated into heated arguments, police calls, restraining orders, viral videos, and accusations from both sides.
SF News Newsom Signs Major Rollback of CEQA Reviews, With a Big Carve-Out for Big Tech Gavin Newsom claims it’s the “most consequential housing reform in modern history” that he just exempted most urban housing projects from environmental review, as the new state budget has some additions that hope to weaken the notorious CEQA.
SF News Developer of Office-to-Residential Conversions In Talks to Buy Downtown SF Wells Fargo Building The longtime headquarters of Wells Fargo on Montgomery Street may become a residential building as a developer already working on office conversions in SF is reportedly close to buying the property.
SF Politics Scott Wiener At It Again With a Bill to Upzone Housing Density Near Transit Hubs After his multiple previous attempts to throw out zoning restrictions in areas near transit hubs have failed, state Senator Scott Wiener has a new measure to streamline larger housing projects near a more limited number of those hubs.
SF news Developer Abandons Housing Plans, Puts Portola’s Historic Greenhouse Site Up for Sale San Francisco’s historic 770 Woolsey St. is back on the market after a failed housing plan, frustrating community efforts to turn it into an urban farm. Its future remains uncertain.
Business & Tech Latest Robotaxi Criticism Claims They’re Blocking SF Housing Development Here’s a complaint we hadn't considered about Waymos and self-driving cars, as at least 600 units of proposed housing are not getting built, because the property owners are getting quicker and easier money by renting out the lots as vehicle charging stations.
SF News Still Very Tall Building Proposed for Sloat Boulevard Site The Outer Sunset could still end up with a very tall, somewhat out-of-scale new residential development on the site of Sloat Garden Center, where a previous developer had proposed an insanely tall, 50-story tower.
SF Politics Lurie Hires Former Twitter CFO Ned Segal to Be ‘Policy Chief’ of Housing and Economic Development A former Twitter executive who’s suing Elon Musk over unpaid severance is now taking over SF’s housing and economic recovery response under the Daniel Lurie administration, as Ned Segal has been named Chief of Housing and Economic Development.
Business & Tech SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
SF News Massive Hilton Hotel Near Union Square Could Become Housing, After Sale Goes Through San Francisco's largest hotel, which is also one of the country's largest hotels outside of Las Vegas, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, is headed for auction. And there are some hints that a buyer could convert it into apartment housing.
SF News Judge Strikes Down SF’s ‘Empty Homes Tax’ After Property Owners Sued Though San Francisco voters approved the residential vacancy tax known popularly as the “Empty Homes Tax” in 2022, the landlords lawyered up, and that tax on vacant rental units was just tossed out by an SF Superior Court judge.
SF News Here Is the Affordable Housing Project Slated to Rise on the Site of Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire Nearly eight years after the Ghost Ship fire killed 36 people, we have our first look at the plans for the two-building, five-story affordable housing complex being built to replace it in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and it will have an on-site memorial.
SF News A New Group of Silicon Valley Techies Are Now Trying to Build A North Bay Village The project, named Esmeralda, says it is completely separate from the similar "California Forever" proposal from Solano County.
