Infamous Local Landlord Foreclosed upon in Pacific Heights
The Pacific Heights home of the infamous Arden Van Upp, who had already been bounced from the dilapidated Bourn Mansion by way of a bankruptcy sale back in 2009, was…
Anti-Tech Posters Now Flying in Front of Zeitgeist
As we first reported a few months ago, plans for razing the Oil Changers station at 198 Valencia Street, across from Zeitgeist at the intersection of Valencia and Duboce, and…
Add 127 Apartments to Oakland’s Burgeoning Auto Row Tally
Speaking of new developments to rise along Oakland’s burgeoning Auto Row, plans to demolish everything but the façades of the existing buildings at 3000 Broadway (which wraps around the corner…
Dogpatch Development in the Works
Plans to raze the two-story Dogpatch building on the northwest corner of 20th and Illinois Streets, which is currently home to Jim’s Smoke Shop and Deli, Specstones Studio and a…
Plans for Decade-Old Pit on Mission to Become Condos
A pit in the ground since 2006, when a two-story brick building on the eastern third of the 1145 Mission Street site was illegally demolished and approved plans to expand…
Plans for 218 Apartments and Retail on Oakland’s Auto Row Progress
The formal application to build two seven story buildings on either side of Broadway at 28th Street, along Oakland’s Auto Row, has been filed. And as proposed, the “Broadstone on…
Polk Gulch Development Take Three
Speaking of developments which have been redesigned, the plans for the proposed 47-unit building to rise upon the City Rent-A-Car site at 1433 Bush Street, between Polk and Van Ness,…
Governor Jerry Brown Sells $2.4M Oakland Hills Home for $50K Less
Governor Jerry Brown has just sold the Japanese inspired Oakland Hills home at 7257 Skyline Boulevard which he purchased for $2.425 million in 2007 for $2.375 million having listed it…