Candlestick Implosion Uncertainty
Bids for the contract to demolish Candlestick Stadium are due next week. And having yet to secure permission to implode the stadium, and concerned about how long it will take…
600 Years To Underground Utility Lines In SF At Current Rate
It will take an estimated $3.6 billion to underground the remaining 470 miles of overhead utility lines in San Francisco. And at the current rate of funding for the initiative,…
Designs For A Hidden Jackson Square Penthouse
Built around 1900 to serve as a smokehouse for Achille Paladini, the “Fish King” of San Francisco, the two-story brick building at 48 Gold Street has since been converted into…
Ten-Story Mid-Market Hotel Planned For Kaplan’s Store Site
Stanton Architecture, the architects behind the renovation of the Hotel Zetta and the fifteen-story Hampton Inn rising at 942 Mission Street, is working on designs for a ten-story hotel to…
Design Center Tenants Could Be Saved, Pinterest Space Constrained
The landmark loophole which the owners of the San Francisco Design Center have been planning to invoke in order to convert the 330,000 square foot building from showroom to office…
An $11M Presidio Heights Mansion Without A Garage (For Now)
Built in 1899 and having only traded hands a couple of times, the tax assessed value for the nearly 7,000 square foot home at 3636 Clay Street is currently $294,125.…
San Francisco Home Sales And Median Price Slip
Home sales in San Francisco and the median price paid for a property in the city both dropped a little over 5 percent in August versus July. Over the past…
From Porn Studio To Office Space In SoMa
The financing to raze one of the last original porn studios left in SoMa and construct a five-story office building on its Bluxome Street site has been secured and the…
Little Movement In 30-Year Mortgage Rate
The average rate for a conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ticked up a nominal 2 basis points, from 4.10 percent to 4.12 percent, over the past week. With little movement over…
Twelve-Story Polk Gulch Development Slated For Approval
The proposed Polk Gulch development which would rise to a height of 130 feet on the south side of Pine Street between Polk and Van Ness Avenue – adjacent to,…