Finest Residence in Ross Finally Sells for $10M with Less Land
On the market as “the finest residence in Ross” with a price tag of as much as $20 million over the past three years, the asking price for the recently…
Pace of Existing U.S. Home Sales Slips as Median Hits a New High
Having ticked up 1.1 percent in May, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. slipped 1.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.52 million transactions in June,…
SoMa Rising and One Less Auto Shop as Proposed
In the works since 2013, as we first reported at the time, the plans for a modern eight-story building to rise up to 85 feet in height upon the Arroyo…
SF Employment Dropped in First Half of 2017, First Time since 2009
With no growth in the number of people living in San Francisco with a job last month (542,100), despite an increase in the labor force by 2,800 to 559,800, the…
Floating Fire Station Closer to Reality on San Francisco’s Bay
The conceptual plans for a floating expansion of San Francisco’s historic Fire Station 35 at Pier 22 ½, which was built back in 1915, have been detailed and newly rendered.…
Electrifying Caltrain News: Project Underway
The Caltrain electrification project officially broke ground in Millbrae this morning. Originally expected to cost $1.5 billion and be operational in 2019, the budget to electrify Caltrain has been upwardly…
Planning Seeks More Celebratory Design for Big Hotel Expansion
Built in 1971, with a total of 342 hotel rooms and 220 parking spaces on its nearly two-acre parcel at 1300 Columbus Avenue, plans to add 174 new rooms to…
Art Gallery Shuttered, Parcel on the Market as a Development Site
The recently shuttered John Pence Gallery at 750 Post Street, three blocks from Union Square in Lower Nob Hill, is now on the market with a $7.9 million price tag…
Potential Fix to Right the Sinking 58-Story Millennium Tower Identified
A potential solution to right the sinking Millennium Tower, which has now settled a total of 17 inches with lean of nearly 14 inches as measured from its roof, has…
Pricing Index for New Condos in San Francisco Hits a 3-Year Low
While sales activity for new condos in San Francisco dropped 27 percent from May to June with the start of a typical summer slowdown in play, the number of purchase…