SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping-Pod Commune May Be Getting Evicted, But Guy Behind It Is Planning Something Bigger It was one of the first signs we had of San Francisco's rental market picking up steam post-pandemic, and after running afoul of the city's planning department and building inspectors, a sleeping-pod residence on Mint Plaza is facing eviction.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto Compound, With 'Bunkers,' Has Reportedly Been Under Constant Construction For 8 Years Neighbors of the Chan-Zuckerbergs in Palo Alto's Crescent Park neighborhood say that the city and local police have basically bent over backwards to accommodate their local celebrity billionaire, at everyone else's expense.
Business & Tech Free Streaming Platform Tubi Announces New SF Headquarters; OpenAI Takes More Space In Mission Bay While new leasing activity for office space is still fairly quiet around downtown San Francisco, a couple of prominent companies are making moves in further positive signs of an upswing.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Toilet of One's Own San Francisco friends, we bring you Apartment Sadness, an SFist column that was once a more frequent feature on the site, back in the heady days of the early to mid-2010s, when it seemed like rents in the city would never stop spiking.
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 Wine Country Developer Arrested by Feds, Charged With Fraud and Money Laundering Federal officials allege that Sonoma County real estate tycoon Kenneth Mattson bilked nearly 200 investors out of at least $46 million in a series of fraudulent real estate deals, and arrested him today in a wine country gymnasium parking lot.
SF News Presidio Terrace Senior Home on the Market for $58 Million, Could Become Large Development While there is no buyer announced yet for the shuttered six-acre St. Anne’s Home senior care facility, there’s plenty of interest in the property, and Inner Richmond residents may be gearing up for a fight over the size of whatever goes there next.
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.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Full House' House Sells Again, This Time for $6M A few years after 'Full House' creator Jeff Franklin bought, renovated, and sold the Lower Pac Heights house originally used for exterior shots on the sitcom, the home has sold again, under its 2024 asking price.
SF News Rents Rose Last Year In SF Faster Than Any Other US City San Francisco's notoriously high rents are on the rise again, and fast.
Business & Tech Bing Crosby’s Former Home in Hillsborough on the Market for a Record-Breaking $40 Million Asking Price Purchased for a song at just $175,000 in 1965, the French chateau-style former home of pop crooner Bing Crosby is now on sale again for $40 million, a price that would break the Hillsborough real estate record that currently belongs to Elon Musk’s old house.
Business & Tech North Berkeley ‘Deathtrap’ That Comes With Lifetime Elderly Tenant Is Pending Sale A North Berkeley home that's in severe disrepair and comes with a lifetime tenant is pending sale by a developer who plans to restore it rather than tear it down.
SF News Saturday Links: Daily Beast Breaks, Then Deletes, Bombshell Story That Trump Was Allegedly Recruited By KGB in 1987 The Daily Beast broke the news that the KGB allegedly recruited Trump in 1987, which they've deleted; Twilio signed a three-year lease for its current Rincon Center space but maintains its remote-first policy; and the suspected killer of Too Short's brother has been linked to a more recent murder.
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.
SF News 22-Story, Mostly Affordable Tower Nears Final Approvals In Lower Nob Hill A 303-unit residential project split into two adjoining buildings has used creative financing and obscure state programs to overcome some funding hurdles, and is on its way to starting construction in SF's Lower Nob Hill.
SF News Chronicle Staff to Temporarily Leave Historic Headquarters as Hearst Prepares to Demolish Next-Door Building The Hearst Corporation is looking to revive a stalled condo tower project on the site of the former SF Examiner offices — a building at 110 Fifth Street that is connected to the Chronicle headquarters by a bridge over Minna Street.
SF News Local Billionaire and Onetime Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer Plans to Build Stunning Mansion In Sea Cliff Plans have been approved for a striking modern mansion to be built on property with sweeping Golden Gate views that is currently occupied by a nearly 90-year-old home in SF's Sea Cliff neighborhood, and the owner is Tom Steyer.
Business & Tech Office Tower at Sixth and Market Getting Acquired By Tech Group for 'Post-AI Singularity' Vertical Village Well, this sure sounds like a positive, if kooky, sign for mid-Market as a Burning Man-esque tech collective is close to buying the 16-story building at the corner of Sixth Street that was once home to the Burning Man organization.
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.
Business & Tech San Francisco's Sky-High Office Vacancy Rate Declines Slightly, In Sign of Possible Turnaround The improvement was ever so slight, but a key indicator of the health of the office leasing market in San Francisco showed another glimmer of hope that the bottom has been reached and leases continue to tick up.
SF News Golden Gate University Campus, Once Slated to Become 50-Story Tower, Sits In Limbo The Brutalist building at 536 Mission Street that houses Golden Gate University was up for sale in recent years, and university leaders thought it was a potential goldmine, given that it had been rezoned for up to 700 feet in the Transit Center District Plan.
SF News Tech Icon's 8,400 Square-Foot Russian Hill Estate Goes on Sale for $22 Million The estate, built at the Gold Rush's height, was most recently owned by Silicon Valley mogul and pioneer Sanford Robertson, who passed away this past August.
Arts & Entertainment Temple of Wings, the Getty Estate In the Berkeley Hills, Sells for $5.85 Million The grand Berkeley Hills estate owned by Ann and Gordon Getty since 1994, dubbed the Temple of Wings, was listed for $5 million in August and just sold for $5.85 million.
SF News After Getting City Approvals, Developer of Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Plans Much Larger Version A year after a sleeping-pod dormitory on San Francisco's Mint Plaza gained media attention and, subsequently, negative attention from the city's building inspectors, the complex has received official city approval.
SF News Revised Tower Plan at South Van Ness and Market Adds Ten Stories, Totals 950 Units A very tall new residential tower may still rise at the site of the former Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness, with the developer submitting revised plans to the city for the long-stalled project.
