Pincus Plans To Go Underground In Pacific Heights
What do you do when your Pacific Heights house is listed as a historic resource but you really want to expand and remodel? If you’re Mark Pincus, apparently you plan…
U.S. Housing Starts Slip In November As Sandy Takes A Toll
Housing starts in the U.S. fell 3.0 percent from October to November, up 21.6 percent year-over-year as construction of structures with five or more units increased 1.4 percent (up 49.6…
Salesforce Signs Deal To Occupy Entire 350 Mission Street Tower
As we first reported in October, the permits to demolish the existing four story Heald College building at 350 Mission Street and construct a 27-story office tower reaching 350 feet…
Butterflies Facing Eviction As 45 Lansing Lands A General Contractor
According to a plugged-in source, Build Group has been selected as the general contractor for the construction of the 39-story tower to rise at 45 Lansing. With construction permits in…
A Map Of All Privately-Owned Public Open Spaces And Public Art In SF
Privately-Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) are publicly accessible spaces in the form of plazas, terraces, atriums and small parks that are maintained by private developers but accessible to all. Prior…
First Of 250 New “Artful” Yerba Buena Bicycle Racks Unveiled
Made of recycled cast iron and sporting tire tread designs, designs which are planned to change every 30 racks, the first 60 of 250 new bike racks to be installed…
Putting Lipstick on the Red-Tagged Pig of Pier 38?
Bids to rehabilitate the Pier 38 bulkhead structure and a portion of the Pier 38 shed, the pier from which a whole host of startups and two venture capital firms…
A Kynar, Gentler Eleven-Story Hotel Proposed To Rise On Fourth
As proposed, the existing two and one-half story building occupied by Olivet Theological University at 250 Fourth Street between Howard and Folsom will be razed and an 11-story hotel with…
Designs For A 350-Foot Tower To Rise At 75 Howard Street
As we wrote a year ago, an application had been filed to raze the eight-story and 550 space parking garage at 75 Howard Street and build a 284-foot building with…
Recorded San Francisco Sales Volume Hits Six-Year Seasonal High
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 24.2% on a year-over-year basis last month (524 recorded sales in November 2012 versus 422 sales in 2011), down 8.4% compared to…