June 2017 – SocketSite™

As Proposed Bay Buildings Being Green City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Redwoods, Sculpture and Funicular Ousted from Plaza Plans

June 30, 2017

The approved plans for the future half-acre Mission Plaza at the base of the Transbay/Salesforce Tower feature a grove of 20 redwood trees, a 41-foot-tall sculpture assembled from concrete blocks…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Central SoMa Development Closer to Reality

June 30, 2017

As we first reported last year: With a bit of drilling going on at the lot on the corner of 5th and Shipley, a reader wonders what’s in the works…

As Proposed Breaking News City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans for 520-Foot Tower at Van Ness and Market Have Been Drawn

June 29, 2017

Lendlease Development has drafted their preliminary plans for a 520-foot-tall tower to rise at 30 Van Ness Avenue. And while previous plans for the Hub District parcel had envisioned razing…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments

Dogpatch Development Positioning to Break Ground sans BMRs

June 29, 2017

Entitled for development early last year, the building permits for the 109-unit project to rise up to seven stories in height at 2177 3rd Street have now been issued and…

Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

Approved Plans for Going Even Bigger in Dolores Heights

June 28, 2017

After a former Facebook couple raised the ire of their future Dolores Heights neighbors by proposing to build a 5,600-square-foot, single-family home across the 323 Cumberland Street parcel (upon which…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Planning Seeks More Density for Development in Presidio Heights

June 28, 2017

As proposed, the redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street will yield 240 units of high-end housing – including 12 new single-family homes, 14 new…

As Proposed Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods

Tower to Rise over Historic Building Raises Concerns

June 28, 2017

As we first reported earlier this year, Ellis Partners is planning to abandon the previously approved plans for a 20-story tower to rise adjacent to the historic Key System Building…

Trends

Pending U.S. Home Sales Slip for Third Month in a Row

June 28, 2017

Having dropped 1.3 percent in April, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, slipped another 0.8 percent in May…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods San Jose (And South)

Atherton Estate of Warriors Shareholder on the Market for $32.8M

June 27, 2017

While the ownership of the two-acre Atherton estate at 150 Almendral Avenue is hidden behind a limited partnership, the property is owned by real estate investor, and minority owner of…

Breaking News Real Estate Economics Trends

Indexes for Bay Area Home and Condo Values Hit New Highs

June 27, 2017

Having ticked up an upwardly revised 1.1 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East…

Parklife on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
Except that the S&P return during that same period was approximately 88%, without holding costs (albeit assuming this was leveraged,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
If anything good can come from this, hopefully tthose who aren't cheerleading development and have concerns about neighborhood character will…
Jack on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
I guess it’s hard to argue with value engineering low income housing, but what a shame they were not able…
Brahma (incensed renter) on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
A joint venture led by three local developers including Bernal Heights Housing Corporation, Tabernacle Community Development Corporation, and Mitchelville Real…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Lurie's key claim — and the big point in his favor relevant for this thread — is that he was…
Neighborhood Activist on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Your guess is as good as mine. He may be really good for SF, or he may be worthless. I…
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Yes it is, definitely...one of the two.
sf on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Daniel Lurie as mayor... is this a turning point for San Francisco or more of the same?
Brahma (incensed renter) on Another 2 Million Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in San Francisco
That's not surprising and it's probably just an opener. The City Controller’s Office put out a report fairly recently that…
Neighborhood Activist on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
I feel like this might be a psychological experiment to see when the last of us gives up and goes…

Redwoods, Sculpture and Funicular Ousted from Plaza Plans

Central SoMa Development Closer to Reality

Plans for 520-Foot Tower at Van Ness and Market Have Been Drawn

Dogpatch Development Positioning to Break Ground sans BMRs

Approved Plans for Going Even Bigger in Dolores Heights

Planning Seeks More Density for Development in Presidio Heights

Tower to Rise over Historic Building Raises Concerns

Pending U.S. Home Sales Slip for Third Month in a Row

Atherton Estate of Warriors Shareholder on the Market for $32.8M

Indexes for Bay Area Home and Condo Values Hit New Highs

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