Lofty Expectations For ClockTower #656
While recently painted and redecorated, the kitchen, baths and layout inside the 1,560 square ClockTower loft building #656 look to be relatively the same as when purchased for $1,085,000 ($695…
Inside The Old Wing’s Steam Laundry Building On Duboce
The old Wing’s Steam Laundry building on Duboce was taken down to the studs in 2008. Reconfigured and redesigned by Kennerly Architecture, the first of four new Tenancy in Common…
A Penthouse Apple Is Picked
Speaking of million-dollar-plus property sales, the sale of 42 Hotaling closed escrow this week with a reported contract price of $3,500,000, roughly $1,095 per square foot, eight (8) percent under…
Bay Area Tops The Zip List For Million Dollar Home Sales In California
In the second quarter of 2012, a total of 7,763 homes sold for a million dollars or more in California, up 18.5 percent from the second quarter of 2011. Ranked…
Plans For Pier 19 To Become A Chinese Business Outpost
With China Development Bank (CDB) nearing a deal to provide the capital to kick-start the development of Hunters Point and Treasure Island, China’s Vantone Holdings Co. is now in early…
With Crushpad Crushed, A Climbing Gym Is Planned Along Third
With Crushpad having been crushed and its assets auctioned off earlier this week, the industrial space in which the company was founded in 2004 is in front of San Francisco’s…
What Makes San Francisco Look Like San Francisco? Algorithm Says…
From the overview of the “What Makes Paris Look like Paris?” study: Consider the two photographs , both downloaded from Google Street View. One comes from Paris, the other one…
The Catwalks, Copper, Concrete And Circular Forms Of 467 Duncan
From the architects behind the rebuilding of 467 Duncan up in Noe Valley: The Stiebeck Residence is a 3000 SF San Francisco residence. The home is situated in a hilltop…
1400 Mission Street: The Revised Plans For Affordable Housing To Rise
The entire west side of Tenth Street between Market and Mission was first approved for development in 2004 and called for the building of a 150-foot-tall affordable housing building on…
Upping The Ante For Bicycle Parking In San Francisco
While the bicycle commuting behaviors of those living downtown might not have shifted much from 2000 to 2010, bicycle commuting across San Francisco is on the rise. The US Census…