Designs for Proposed 448-Unit Auto Row Development in Oakland
As proposed and working its way through Planning, the Oakland Acura Dealership at 277 27th Street will be razed and a 18-story building with 448 residential units over 66,500 square…
Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Surges to Eight-Year High
Having slipped a revised 1.3 percent in March, the pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. surged 16.6 percent in April to an annual rate of 619,000 sales…
Three in a Row on One Coveted Block
Two weeks ago, the asking price for the attempted million dollar flip of 2470 Broadway was reduced a half million to $6,999,000. Last week, the completely redeveloped home at 2476…
Prohibiting Street Parking for Residents of New Developments
Early next month Oakland’s Planning Commission is slated approve a comprehensive update of the City’s Planning Code that sets the parking requirements for new developments throughout the city, allowing buildings…
Refurbishing West Oakland
Currently home to Oakland Technology Exchange West, which has refurbished nearly 40,000 donated computers which were then gifted to low-income East Bay families or sold at a deep discount to…
Supervisor Aims to Further Incent Development of Student Housing
In order to promote the development of Student Housing in San Francisco, the City’s Planning Code provides a big incentive for developers to build for educational institutions. While new developments…
50 Percent over Asking in Presidio Heights! By Design
The sale of the rather pristine Mid-Century Modern infill pad at 3610 Washington Street, which was designed by William Wurster and built on the site of an adjacent home’s former…
New Plans for a Prized Potrero Hill Hardware Store and Site
For the past 30 years, Center Hardware has been located in the warehouse building at 249 Pennsylvania/999 Mariposa, sitting on a parcel which abuts I-280 to the east and Pennsylvania…
Employment in San Francisco Stalls, Slips in the East Bay
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco has dropped to 3.1 percent, the lowest unemployment rate since the end of the dot-com boom, the drop from 3.3 percent in March…
Pace of Existing U.S. Home Sales Ticks up but Slipped in the West
The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up 1.7 percent in April to an annual rate of 5.45 million sales, which is 6.0 percent higher on…