Designs For Transforming San Francisco’s Alleys
Two years in the making, the Living Alleys Toolkit establishes the framework, strategies and processes for creating a network of plazas, gardens, and active public spaces in traffic calmed alleyways…
A $10M Two-Bedroom And Nearly $3K Per Square Foot
A bastion of San Francisco’s power Democrats, and a fixture of Pacific Heights, the twelve-story “Alta Plaza Apartments” building at 2500 Steiner opened in 1927, with twelve full-floor co-op units…
Target Could Hit Its Mark On Ocean Avenue Next Month
With the overhaul of Ocean Avenue underway, Target is preparing for a public hearing next month which could clear the way for a TargetExpress to open at 1830 Ocean, a…
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Scoop: Plans For Three Towers Up To 250-Feet On Flower Mart Site
While Kilroy Realty has been tight-lipped with respect to their plans for the San Francisco Flower Mart parcel, at least beyond a new high-tech underground market for the mart, the…
An Escalating Battle With Taggers, Transients, And Urban Blight
Engaged in a full-on battle with the taggers and transients who have claimed the shuttered McDonald’s at 600 Van Ness, an 8-foot chain-link fence is in the process of being…
Downsized Plans (And No Condos) For Downtown Site
Plans to raze the three-story building on the northeast corner of Grant and Sutter (300 Grant) and construct a ten-story building, with 45 condos over two floors of retail and…
City Suing to Shutter Illicit Gambling Den On Mission
Behind the blacked-out windows of the Bernal Heights building on the southeast corner of Mission and Kingston, the “Kingston Shack” has been operating as an illicit gambling hall, filled with…
Take Two, Or Three, For $4M Trendyloin Penthouse
While the game changing conversion of a Polk Street SRO from low-income housing to “San Francisco’s newest boutique hotel” continues on and is expected to re-open this summer, the $4…
Condo Lottery Bypass In Action
A plugged-in reader spent the night outside the Department of Building Inspection in order to be the very first person in line to apply for San Francisco’s Condo Lottery Bypass…
SF Home Sales Slowest In Three Years, Bay Area Slowest Since ’08
Having hit a record high of $1,072,500 this past November, the median price paid for a home in San Francisco dropped to $949,000 in December and then to $885,500 in…