SF News Planned Residential Tower at South Van Ness and Market Grows Taller, Would Be Fourth Tallest Building In SF Plans for a residential tower at 10 South Van Ness Avenue have just gotten slightly taller as permit applications were just filed, and the building has grown by over 100 units since the last plans we saw in the fall.
SF News Tower Project at Sansome and Washington Moves Forward, Including First SF Five-Star Hotel In 30 Years A new office tower, which would be the first to be built in the Financial District since 2018 and would include the first five-star hotel to be constructed in the city in three decades, is moving along at 530 Sansome Street, with a developer who's bullish about downtown's future.
SF News Residents Sign Petition, Push Back on 22-Story Highrise In Outer Sunset Once again there is opposition to a large development on San Francisco's sleepy west side, and while the latest proposal isn't massively out of scale like the last one, it is still much bigger than anything the Outer Sunset has ever seen.
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 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 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 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.
SF News Developer of Market and Van Ness Tower Strikes Deal to Restart Construction, Nix Affordable Units Australian developer Lendlease may not completely abandon its 47-story Hayes Point project after all, as SF city leaders are looking to cut a deal and let them out of an affordable housing requirement.
SF News Update: Large Pane of Glass Falls From Salesforce East; Berkeley Man Describes Being 'Attacked' With Glass While In Car A big piece of glass fell off a downtown highrise Friday morning, crashing down onto Mission Street and prompting an alert to avoid the area.
SF News Major Developer Gambles on Downtown SF, Proposes 41-Story Office/Hotel Tower on Fire Station Site A developer with plenty of experience with SF's boom and bust cycles is betting big on a new tower near the Transamerica Pyramid that would include a 24-story office component.
SF News 'One Oak' Tower at Foot of Van Ness Might Get Built After All, But With Smaller Affordable Component A long-stalled residential tower slated to go into a lot at Van Ness and Market, which we thought was completely dead, may get revived by a new developer who is now taking a fresh look at the project's feasibility.
SF News Major Downtown Development Known as Parcel F Appears In Trouble, Developer Owes $70M Penalty All signs are pointing to a major Transbay District development known as Parcel F, or 542-550 Howard Street, which was set to become the city's fifth-tallest building, being hopelessly stalled, and perhaps doomed, after the developer just missed another key deadline.
SF News Dozens of Windows Cracked at Salesforce Tower In High Winds; One Window Falls Off Millennium Tower The unusual, gale-force winds on Tuesday did plenty of damage across the Bay Area, including damage to windows on at least three downtown SF highrises.
SF News Glass Being Blown Off Downtown SF Tower 555 California Street, Shelter-In-Place Order Issued A shelter-in-place order was issued Tuesday afternoon after at least one large glass panel "became separated" from the 43rd floor of famed SF office tower 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
SF News Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.
Business & Tech 40-Story Tower at the Foot of Van Ness Goes Before Planning for Reapproval as Rental Apartments Days before its entitlements are set to expire, a very tall proposed residential tower at Van Ness and Market is headed before the Planning Commission this week, now as a significantly larger, all-rental property.
SF News Developer Unveils Plans For Downtown SF Tower That Will Almost Match Salesforce In Height What had been planned as an 818-foot tower has become an 1,066-foot tower according to newly unveiled project plans from developer Hines for a site behind the historic PG&E headquarters building in downtown SF.
SF News Window Glass Falls From 45th Story of The Avery In Downtown SF, Shatters On Ground It was a good thing on Thursday that the streets of downtown SF still aren't very busy, because a big pane of glass fell from a skyscraper and shattered on the sidewalk — and no one was injured.
Business & Tech The Crisis Around Chinese Developer Evergrande May Impact Oceanwide Development In SF The troubled Chinese-owned Oceanwide Center development at Mission and First, construction of which was fully halted a year ago, may face more troubles ahead as the Chinese economy faces a crisis that's pegged to real estate conglomerate Evergrande.
SF News Developer Seeks to Build 75-Story Residential Tower Behind Old PG&E Building on Market Street Another very tall tower could be added to San Francisco's skyline in the coming years, if developer Hines gets what they're asking for on the downtown block that used to belong to PG&E.
SF News New Tall Skyscraper Planned Near Salesforce Tower Moves Forward With Groundbreaking Plans Despite Everything The developer behind a 61-story mixed-use tower slated to go in at 550 Howard Street announced plans today for an early 2022 groundbreaking, delivering solid evidence that developers remain very optimistic about post-pandemic San Francisco.
SF News Revised Designs Revealed For 47-Story Tower at 30 Van Ness New proposed plans have arrived for a 520-foot, 47-story mixed-use building on the site of a shorter, city-owned building (where a Walgreens lives) at the corner of Van Ness and Market.
SF News 40-Story Tower at Van Ness and Market Delayed as Developer Seeks Buyer A 420-foot, 40-story residential tower at the intersection of Market Street, Oak Street, and Van Ness, dubbed One Oak, in planning since 2014, apparently doesn't "pencil" in the parlance of developers, and its entitlements are now up for grabs.
