Google Is Moving Into The Mission
It’s a relatively small move in terms of space but perhaps not significance as Google is taking over the 35,000 square foot former printworks building and property at 16th and…
HOPE For Hunters View And 400 New Market Rate Units
With the rebuilding of San Francisco’s Hunters View public housing development having kicked-off in 2010, a resolution authorizing the issuance of up to $45 million of residential mortgage revenue bonds…
Recommendation To Crackdown On Illegal Rentals Goes Missing
As we first reported last month, in response to an executive directive from Mayor Ed Lee, a working group co-chaired by the directors of San Francisco’s Planning Department and Department…
Planning To Improve The Ocean Avenue Corridor
The development of a long-term vision, design and implementation plan for Ocean Avenue between Manor Drive and San Jose Avenue is underway. Building on a number of studies, designs and…
Bay Area Home Sales Off To A Slow Start In 2014
Having closed out 2013 with fewer recorded home sales in San Francisco than the year before versus a 25 percent increase from 2011 to 2012, recorded home sales in San…
A Day Late And $1.5 Million Short
A report by Department of Building Inspection chief Tom Hui cites “ to follow and implement the approved plans and the sequence of construction” for leading to the collapse of…
Economists: Formula Retail Controls Could Hurt Consumers/Economy
Prepared in response to proposed legislation which would further expand formula retail controls in San Francisco, San Francisco’s Office of Economic Analysis (OEA) has concluded that formula retail controls could…
Tenant Right Of First Refusal And Assistance Fund Floated
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu is calling for legislation that would not only give tenants in San Francisco the right of first refusal to purchase their building “at fair…
6,000 Housing Units Under Construction In San Francisco, Another 44,000 Units In The Pipeline
While fewer than 2,000 new housing units and 140,000 square feet of commercial space in San Francisco was completed in 2013, there were roughly 6,000 housing units and 2.8 million…
Rebuilt With A Modern Layout Atop “Dolores Heights”
The previously rundown Victorian at 290 Collingwood was purchased for $978,000 in June of 2012 and has since been rebuilt with an all-new lower level, three bedrooms on the top-floor…