Office Rents in San Francisco Slip for the First Time since 2010
As we first reported at the beginning of the year, demand for office space in San Francisco was dropping. A few months later, we noted that the office vacancy rate…
Mission Dolores Statement Home Fetches a Record $6.85 Million
Originally marketed at $9 million, the sale of the modern 4,665-square-foot home at 50 Oakwood Street, which was listed on the MLS for $7.998 million in late April, has closed…
Big Problems for Proposed 300-Foot Tower Across from Caltrain
The project team behind a proposed 300-foot-tall tower to rise at 330 Townsend Street recently shifted gears and architects, abandoning their original plans for a modern office or mixed-use development…
McDonald’s Shuttered for Eleven-Story Hotel to Rise
The McDonald’s at Third and Townsend, from within which Clint Eastwood uttered, “Go ahead, make my day,” has been shuttered and its grills and fryers are being loaded onto a…
The Battery Founders Abandoning Residential Project
Purchased by MXB Battery LP, which shares the same Pacific Heights address as Michael and Xochi Birch, the founders of The Battery, for $4.2 million in 2014 and transferred to…
Parking for More Desks and Fewer Cars in Downtown Oakland
Heads-up if you happen to rely on the Douglas parking garage at 420 13th Street in Downtown Oakland. For as proposed, the nine-story structure, which was constructed in 1959, will…
Apples to Apples in Ashbury Heights
For the third time in six years, the fully-remodeled home at 908 Ashbury Street is back on the market. Listed for $3.995 million in February of 2015 and reduced to…
Formal Application for Van Ness Development Filed
The formal application for authorization to move forward with developing a seven-story building – with 41 luxury condos over ground floor retail and a basement garage for 31 cars –…
City Supports Contentious Redevelopment of Church Site, but…
As proposed by Christian Church Homes, and much to the chagrin of neighbors, the Forest Hill Christian Church and adjacent school at 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard will be leveled and…
Looking for a One-Bedroom in SoMa with Parking for 116 Cars?
Car nuts take note, the 953-square-foot one-bedroom #303 at The Palms (555 4th Street) is on market, bundled together with 116 of the parking spaces in the building’s 300-car garage.…