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After the Drew School got the go-ahead to remove three (3) of the city’s roughly 365,000 housing units in order to expand their campus, Supervisor Mirkarimi introduced legislation that would…
After abandoning plans to build CAMP (Contemporary Art Museum Presidio) in July, the Fisher’s engaged in “hush, hush” talks with SFMOMA to expand their South of Market space (taking over…
“Sales of new U.S. homes climbed in August to the highest level in almost a year as builders cut prices at a record pace to compete with the foreclosures that…
The Port Commission has approved a 66-year lease of Piers 15 and 17 for the Exploratorium (targeting a 2012 opening): The deal, approved unanimously by the Port Commission this month,…
While we missed the Planning Department’s public meeting to solicit public comment on their thoughts of increasing building height limits on Mission Street between 16th and Cesar Chavez up to…
As we wrote a year ago with respect to the Perata Mortgage Relief Bill: Unfortunately, we doubt the new law will have any meaningful impact on foreclosure rates throughout California…
Speaking of big homes that private equity “bought,” according to a plugged-in tipster 2140 Jefferson was home to Peter Thiel of PayPal and Clarium Capital notoriety. The twist, he was…
As we wrote in July: As a plugged-in reader notes, a fully remodeled and renovated Marquee Lofts (151 Alice B. Toklas Place) #708 has returned to the market asking $739,000…
Tom Perkins has gone public with his purchase of one of the top two Millennium Tower penthouse shells (“GPHA”). The buy by the numbers: 4,806 square feet; three bedrooms and…
As we wrote in August: If our plugged-in tipster is correct, 2849 Pacific will be hitting the market in a couple of weeks after a “big money redo” and with…