New SoMa Jail Will Displace McDonald’s, Perhaps Residents Too
Another McDonald’s is slated to be razed in San Francisco, this time to make room for a new County Jail. As part of a larger program to relocate City agencies from San Francisco’s seismically deficient...
View Article‘Historic’ Mission District Garage Eyed For Development
Considered a potential Historic Resource for the ‘Inner Mission Reconstruction Historic District,’ the redevelopment of the garage known as Jay’s Auto Body Center at 1721 15th Street, between Little...
View ArticleBillionaires Row Mansion ‘Only’ Fetches $31M
The sale of the Billionaires Row mansion at 2701 Broadway has just closed escrow with a contract price of $31 million, a whopping $8 million under asking but still $4 million more than celebrity chef...
View ArticleBayview Castle Fails To Land Its Lannister
The listing for the two-unit Bayview “castle” at 53-55 Pomona Street, which is not to be confused with the Bayview castle at 1540 Newhall Street nor the Albion Castle 881 Innes Avenue, has been...
View ArticleRussian Hill Condo Misses The $3K Mark (But Fetches $6.9M)
Listed for $7.5 million last month, twice the price at which the three-bedroom Russian Hill condo had been purchased at the end of 2013 prior to being completely remodeled by Black Mountain...
View ArticleIconic Dogpatch Bar On The Market For $580K
Resurrected in 2014, with redwood wainscoting, Victorian flocked wallpaper and a refurbished pool table, the iconic Sea Star bar at 2289 Third Street, adjacent to the corner Dogpatch Café, is on the...
View ArticleDesigns For Boutique Hotel To Replace Ginsberg’s Pub
Plans to raze the shuttered Ginsberg’s Dublin Pub on the corner of Bay and Mason, and build a boutique four-story hotel on the site, are moving forward and the project has been dubbed “Rainflower.” As...
View Article$450K For A 275-Square-Foot Room Without A View
Get ready for the “OMG” headlines, stories and exclamation points as a 275-square-foot studio in San Francisco is in contract with a list price of $450,000! Yes, that’s over $1,600 per square foot!...
View ArticleFrom The Flames Of Saint Paulus, Condos Could Soon Rise
The designs for an eight-story building with 95 condos over a 10,000-square-foot church to rise on the southeast corner of Gough and Eddy are one step closer to being blessed by Planning as the...
View ArticlePark Hill Penthouse Listed For $100K Less Than Recent Sale
Built as St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1926, with a façade that was cast as the sanatorium in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, 355 Buena Vista Avenue East was converted to the Park Hill condominiums in 1986. And...
View ArticleRecommendation For Oakland’s Shuttered Convention Center Appealed
While Oakland’s City Council is slated to choose between two proposals for reviving the city’s long-shuttered 215,000-square-foot Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center across from Lake Merritt next month,...
View ArticleMajor Mission District Development Racing To Beat A Moratorium
While the threat of both legislative and ballot-driven housing moratoriums loom, plans to raze the majority of the Mission District block bounded by Bryant, 18th, Florida and 19th Streets and build...
View ArticleAlbion Hall On The Market For $6.5M
Built in 1907 as Tivoli Hall and once home to San Francisco’s Socialist Party (at which point it was known as “Equality Hall”) as well as the International Longshoreman’s Association, 143 Albion Street...
View ArticleFolsom Street Rising: From Printing Presses To Condos As Proposed
Plans to raze the two-story First California Press building at 1075 Folsom Street and construct a six-story building, with 34 condos over a ground floor commercial space, have been submitted to San...
View ArticleChurch Conversion Could Spark More Flames
Two years ago, a fire damaged the home which shares the lot with the former Iglesia del Pacto Evangelico church at 856 Capp Street, between 23rd and 24th in the Mission. And in a move which could spark...
View Article700 Square Foot Berkeley Four-Bedrooms Slated To Be Approved
The revised designs for a student-oriented, but not necessarily student occupied, development to rise up to six-stories in height on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, with room(s) for around 150 residents...
View ArticleEmpire Room Now Open (And Closing In 2017 For Condos To Rise)
Plans to raze the former Stars/Trader Vic’s/Maestro building at 555 Golden Gate Avenue which is now home to The Empire Room, the grand opening for which was last month, are moving forward with the...
View ArticlePac Heights Carriage House In Contract At $4K Per Square Foot
Built to serve as the carriage house for the Newhall Mansion which is now hidden behind the house and owned by the co-founders of Zynga (Mark Pincus) and One Kings Lane (Alison Pincus), 2974 Pacific...
View Article420-Unit Development At Risk
The Planning Commission’s approval of the proposed 420-unit building to rise up to 13-stories at 150 Van Ness, stretching from Van Ness to Polk along Hayes, was appealed and could be (UPDATE: was)...
View ArticleA Peek At The Sky-Bridge To Connect Twitter’s Staff
While Twitter is grabbing headlines for the pending departure of CEO Dick Costolo, and Shorenstein is quietly shopping the two Mid-Market buildings in which Twitter is headquartered, we gaze upward at...
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