Siemens Gives San Francisco A Green Thumbs Up
In a study commissioned by Siemens, San Francisco landed atop the “Green City Index” to be deemed the “greenest” major city in the U.S. and Canada. The Index compared 27…
Plans For 800 New Showplace Square Units Moving Forward
The plans for over 800 new housing units across 801 Brannan and One Henry Adams continue to make their way through planning with a Draft Environmental Impact Report has now…
Apples To Apples To Apples (And Tipster To Tipster) On Caselli
Purchased for $1,515,000 in August 2005, it was a plugged-in tipster that noted the sale of 226 Caselli for $1,420,500 back in November 2007. As our tipster wrote at the…
Madrone: T-Minus Two Months to Official Grand Opening
The official “Grand Opening” for sales of 329 new condos in Mission Bay, a development born Radiance West but since dubbed “Madrone,” is slated for mid-September. Prices are set to…
Smitten For The Smitty (And Its Incredible Shrinking Square Feet)
Converted in the year 2000 by Bay Area architects Abrams & Milliken, the largest of three units within the former Smitty Knitting Factory building at 75 Lansing Street hit the…
And Then Reduce It Too…
As a plugged-in reader moving to San Francisco and house hunting reported in March: On February 28, 716 Sanchez Street hit the market with a list of $2.45M for the…
From Cala To Condos To Trader Joe’s At 1401 California
As we wrote in 2009: Clearing up some confusion with respect to the current home of Cala Foods at 1401 California, the grocery store’s lease ends on December 31, 2010…
April S&P/Case-Shiller: San Francisco Benefits From A “Seaonal” Kick
According to the April 2011 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA increased 1.7% from March ’11 to April ’11, down 39.5% from a peak…
Powell Street Promenade Making Progress
Construction is now underway between Ellis and Geary on the “Powell Street Promenade,” the City’s latest Pavement to Parks project. Over an average weekend, up to 100,000 pedestrians walk along…
Candlestick Heights Hits The Market Well Under $400 Per Square
Stalled out in 2008 when targeting $600 a square foot ($600,000 to $700,000 a unit), work on Candlestick Heights restarted last year with pricing expected to be “just under $400…