Redeveloping Sixth Street: Corner Of Sixth And Howard As Envisoned
As far as we know, Mercy Housing has yet to secure the $19 million it will take to raze the four-story Hugo Hotel which has sat vacant since 1987 and…
U.S. Housing Starts Up 21.5% Year-Over-Year But Still Below Average
Housing starts in the U.S. fell 1.1 percent from June to July but remain up 21.5 percent year-over-year as construction of structures with five or more units increased 9.6 percent…
1601 Larkin: Planning’s Flip-Flop And Expected Disapproval Today
Despite a revised design and the Planning Department’s recommendation that the project be approved in June, while San Francisco’s Planning Commission voted 5-2 to certify the Environmental Impact Report necessary…
Recorded San Francisco Sales Up 27.7% In July (Year-Over-Year)
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 27.7% on a year-over-year basis last month (567 recorded sales in July 2012 versus 444 sales in July 2011), down 3.2% as…
San Francisco’s Market Street Masonry Discontiguous District
Composed of eight buildings between Franklin and Valencia Streets, the “Market Street Masonry Discontiguous District” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But if you’d like to roll around the district,…
Apples-To-Apples And Year-Over-Year For Our Ex-Mayors Ex-Home
As we first reported last year, the sale of the ex-Mayor’s ex-home at 1581 Masonic closed escrow on July 13, 2011 with a reported contract price $2,750,000. As plugged-in people…
Foreclosure Activity Falls In San Francisco, Pipeline Down 31 Percent
Having dropped 17 percent from April to June, pre-foreclosure activity in San Francisco has fallen another 5 percent over the past two months with 378 properties in the pipeline, 33…
1355 Market Square Scoop: Three New Restaurants And A Grocery
As we first reported in June with respect to Shorenstein’s makeover of the Western Furniture Exchange & Merchandise Mart at 1355 Market Street, the 11-story Mid-Market building they’re re-branding along…
Historic Hibernia Bank Building: Then, Now And As Newly Proposed
Designed by Albert Pissis and constructed in 1892, the Hibernia Bank Building at 1 Jones and McAllister survived, for the most part, San Francisco’s great quake and fire of 1906.…
Parklet Or Piglet?
While many complain of Planning being too heavy-handed with respect to architecture and design in San Francisco, the parklet outside The Dancing Pig at 544 Castro has at least one…