The 845 Montgomery Penthouse Pineapple Returns
While it didn’t find a buyer last year when listed at the same price, Penthouse Number One atop 845 Montgomery has just returned to the market at $3,150,000. Purchased for…
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399 Fremont: April Showers (And Site Prep) Will Bring…Wildflowers
As we wrote last June: Approved for development in 2006 with a performance period set to expire in June 2008, Fifield started clearing the site for the proposed Californian at…
Castro Garden Condo Foreclosure Q&A
The reader’s question: What happened to the small two-bedroom condo at 3919 21st Street which was purchased for $645,000 in December 2006, returned to the market asking $669,000 in early…
1984 Great Highway: From Fire Chief’s Cottage, To Church, To…
Built as a beach retreat in 1905 by a San Francisco Fire Chief who perished in the great quake of 1906, the “cottage” at 1984 Great Highway has served as…
Avalon Towers By The Bay (388 Beale) No Longer Owned By Avalon
A plugged-in reader reports: “I live at Avalon Towers (388 Beale Street) and learned yesterday that they had been sold to UDR (or should I say swapped with other properties).…
The Designs For The Lot At 2401 16th Street As Proposed
Amongst the items on San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission’s agenda this afternoon, the proposed re-development of the “L” shaped parking lot and ad hoc addition to the corner “Double Play”…
The Freshly Re-Finished Façade Of 2523 Steiner
No, it’s not an underground Fresh & Easy that’s popped up in Pacific Heights, but rather the re-finished façade of 2523 Steiner which plugged-in people saw coming and well before.…
San Francisco’s First Fresh & Easy Should Open Second Week In May
According to a plugged-in reader and a construction worker on site, the first Fresh & Easy in San Francisco should open its doors in the Outer Richmond the second week…
Twitter Central Market/Tenderloin Tax Break Vote This Afternoon
The proposed ordinance “amending Article 12-A of the Business and Tax Regulations Code by adding Section 906.3 to establish a payroll expense tax exclusion for businesses located in the Central…
Digging In At (And The Design For) 701 Golden Gate Avenue
The ground was officially broken for the Mary Helen Rogers Senior Community on Valentine’s Day, and the surface area parking lot on which the eight-story building will rise at 701…