SF News Fell Street DMV Site to Become 372 Affordable Housing Units The 1960-built Department of Motor Vehicles office and its parking lot at the tip of the Panhandle in San Francisco will be redeveloped as affordable housing, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
SF News UCSF May Become Anchor Tenant of Potrero Power Station Redevelopment Project The Potrero Power Station Redevelopment project, now six years in the making, may have an anchor tenant for its life sciences building, and it's none other than UCSF.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Gets New Renderings, Revisions The planned redevelopment of the Stonestown Galleria property, which will turn what are currently parking lots into new residential, retail, and office space, has received some revisions, which include dropping a planned 200-room hotel.
SF News Talk of Redeveloping Golden Gate Fields Has Already Begun Following Monday's announcement that 80-year-old East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields plans to shut down racing for good this fall, the talk has already begun about could be done with the 140-acre property.
SF News Potrero Power Station Nears Approval For Major Redevelopment Project Another mega-project in San Francisco is inching its way toward final approvals, and this one would transform the 29-acre, waterfront Potrero Power Station site into a mixed use complex of 2,600 residential units and 1.8 million square feet of new commercial space.
SF Politics SF Redevelopment Agency Successor Seeks To Make Good On Building 5,800 Affordable Units The agency that took over for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), known as the Office of Community Infrastructure and Investment (OCII), has just proposed a state law that would allow it to use its former funding tools to develop nearly 6,000 new below-market-rate units in the city.
SF News Work Begins On Massive Treasure Island Redevelopment Work has begun on a 20-year development project that will radically transform both Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island into something virtually unrecognizable from what we know today. The plan, now two decades
SF News An Update On Possible New Oakland A's Stadium, In Oakland Since the Oakland A's first announced in 2009 that they might consider a move south, to San Jose, Oakland has been desperately trying to hold on to the team. Now there's some movement
SF News CA Cities Scramble to Deal With Death Of Redevelopment You'll recall that Governor Jerry Brown decided last year that one thing he could probably pretty easily kill off, and net a few billion dollars in the state budget without the public caring
SF News California Is Now Free To Raid $1.7 Billion In Redevelopment Funds [Update] The California Supreme Court ruled this morning that the state is free to eliminate redevelopment agencies across California and take $1.7 billion of their funds under Sacramento-approved legislation passed earlier this year.
SF News Mission Bay: Modern Model of Mixed Use Development, or Wasteland? The Wall Street Journal shines a spotlight on S.F.'s largest new part of town, Mission Bay, and tries to show both sides of the debate on whether the area is successfully
SF News MacArthur BART Transit Village Project Finally Gets Underway 17 years in the making, the MacArthur Transit Village project has finally broken ground, making way for what will be a huge and potentially transformative development in a fairly desolate part of Oakland.
SF News State Dems Take Key Vote to Kill Redevelopment, Oakland Scrambles to Tie Up Funds The fight over redevelopment in California is still far from finished, but Democratic lawmakers on a key state legislative committee took a step that could hurry the death knell along yesterday. The conference
SF News KQED Covers the Redevelopment Battle in Sacramento "The California Report" on KQED today takes on the subject of redevelopment and Jerry Brown's plan to eradicate hundreds of redevelopment agencies in the state. We've already wondered if the cuts are going
SF News What's Up With the Supes? Tax Breaks for Twitter, Redevelopment Alternatives and a Possible Apocalypse on the Agenda today Board of Supervisors meetings haven't been quite as exciting after the 11th-hour fireworks that went down just before the class of snooze-thousand-eleven took their seats last month. Hopefully, the rookies will find their
SF News Will the Redevelopment Cuts Stand, and Are They Legal? We know most of you are probably not on the edge of your seats waiting to see how Jerry Brown's threats to kill redevelopment in California shake out, but we thought we'd keep
SF News Second Phase of the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan Unleashed The second phase of the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan was released yesterday by Lennar Corporation. If approved by the City's Redevelopment Agency next Tuesday, the second phase will add 159 townhomes and
Arts & Entertainment Help SPUR Some Transportation Conversation Want to hear and participate in a thought-provoking discussion about planning regional transportation? Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. you can head on down to SPUR's (a.k.a. the San Francisco Planning
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits --So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea
SF News What's Up With Your Board Of Supes? Look at that fresh new picture of your 2007 San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Chris Daly even showed up this time! So what's the gang up to these days? (Besides Chris Daly; he's
SF News San Francisco Steps Up and Gives 110% San Francisco unveiled some shiny new plan to win back the affections of the Niners yesterday. The plan includes a redevelopment of Candlestick Point and Hunters Point and features a new stadium for
SF News It's Saturday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is? What's going on is that he whole development thing is sort of a chicken vs. the egg conundrum- do you develop first and bring the Niners with you or do you wait for
SF News Week Around The -Ists Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 1 of 2) Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
