SF News Firm To Purchase SF Piers For $82.5M On Behalf Of Unnamed Offshore Client An Atlanta company has made moves to purchase prime San Francisco commercial real estate on behalf of an unnamed, offshore individual or company. So reports The Registry, which notes that Invesco Real Estate
SF News San Francisco Mocked For Once Again Limiting Housing Development This is the headline from a Washington Post blog yesterday: "Voters in one of America’s most expensive cities just came up with another way to block new housing." As you may or
SF News Warriors Arena Benched While Opponents Gather Momentum The Golden State Warriors are "calling a time-out" on the proposed waterfront arena on Piers 30-32. Nearly two years since the announcement that the team would be returning to the city in 2017,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Waiheke Island Yacht Club Unveils Fall Menu While most of the pop-ups, khakis, and fancy portable toilets that dotted America's Cup festivities are long gone, Waiheke Island Yacht Club remains. Thankfully so. The temporary 100-seat waterfront restaurant, care of New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Bars Along The S.F. Waterfront As (comparatively) warm weather approaches and the Giants head into a long summer stretch, isn't it time you checked out one of the many fine watering holes along the waterfront? We're not talking
Arts & Entertainment Sting Will Christen S.F.'s First Outdoor Waterfront Concert Venue Multiple Grammy-winning artist Sting is the first act booked to play a lavish, yet temporary, new waterfront concert venue at the America's Cup Pavilion on Pier 27/29. The 9,000 seat venue
Arts & Entertainment Should the Public Vote On Boxy 8 Washington Condo Complex? A minor debate is percolating over the 8 Washington condo complex set to rise at the waterfront. Said complex will renovation the existing Pacific Sports Resorts at the Gateway facilities and "transformation of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Up, Up And Away Untitled image shot at the Embarcadero by analogskirt.
SF News Pier 38 Businesses, Possibly Pushed Out for America's Cup, Question City's Motives Businesses at Pier 38, the most expensive waterfront Class-A office space in San Francisco, rushed to find new homes after the city red tagged the waterfront space. Notices appeared on Pier 38 businesses
SF News Who's Losing Space For Ellison's Boat Race? We've already celebrated the fact that our fair city was selected to host the 2013 America's Cup. (Lots of love to Lite Gov Newsom for successfully wooing Larry Ellison and his boating buddies.
SF News Body Found In Suitcase In The Bay At around 9 a.m. this morning, a tourist walking along the waterfront with his niece found a suitcase holding a dead body. Margarito Real told KTVU, "There was a suitcase floating in
misc Let's Dream of a Non-Wretched Fisherman's Wharf Oh, sure, you've seen all the coverage of Jan Gehl's plan to turn Fisherman's Wharf into something tolerable. But wouldn't you like to know more? The excellent SPUR is holding a forum TODAY
SF News A Commode In Every Park As part of a proposed $185 million bond issued to help revitalize our parks, Park & Rec head cheese Yomi Agunbiade, announced that a major emphasis of the bond measure will be bringing
misc Blocker: 800 Innes Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
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 Sanitizing Warm Water Cove We can't say that we enjoy graffiti as our favorite medium of public art; it seems dated and seizure-inducing. But then again, we also secretly love Cupid's Span -- it's cleverly corny and
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Feinstein endorses Clinton, which could very well be the start of one totally bitchin' clique. [Chron, Examiner] -- MUNI reform! MUNI reform! [FCJ] -- SF Weekly's Katy St. Clair (AKA Bouncer) talks
Arts & Entertainment City Creating Halloween Containment Zone? Whoa whoa whoa. What's that about the waterfront? Well, the Rincon Hill blog says that Halloween might be forcibly migrated to Pier 32, according to "Scuttlebutt," which we assume is the gay version
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Critical Mass, April 2007 The rolling Rorschach test that is Critical Mass once again delighted and frustrated those in S.F. tonight. We saw pissed-off bus riders, but also a few delighted hotel guests. We saw some
Arts & Entertainment Black Eyed Peas to the Rescue! You may be shocked -- SHOCKED -- to learn that sometimes, some of the people who come to the Castro for Halloween are not entirely well-behaved. Fortunately, after last year's shootings and stabbings,
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
misc Interview: JL Aronson What is the best thing about the Danielson movie? It’s done. No, just kidding. But seriously, it took a long time and I’m still shocked that it’s completed. The best
SF News On the Waterfront Our drama begins with Aaron Peskin pulling out a rarely used, little known ordinance that ruled that any huge development has to be re-examined and analyzed part-way into the development to check on
