Timing for Massive India Basin Development Pushed Back
As we wrote when the Draft Environmental Impact Report for Build Inc’s massive India Basin project, a proposed development which could yield over 1,200 units of housing, 1,800 parking spaces…
Contentious Development Redesigned and Now in Play
While forced to be redesigned in order to minimize its projected future shadow following a semi-successful challenge initiated by the owner of Zeitgeist across the street, the contentious plans for…
Bigger Plans for Low-Slung Berkeley Shopping Center Site
Originally pitched as a potential five-story project, as we first reported at the time, Landmark Properties is pushing forward with plans for an eight-story building to rise up to 86…
Accusations of Fraud and New Mansion Fight
Having hit the market listed as an “impeccable & elegant home” with “partial views and surrounding gardens” for $11.5 million in April of 2015, the remodeled 6,100-square-foot home at 2939…
Record Employment in San Francisco and around the Bay
The number of people living in the city of San Francisco with a job jumped by 6,700 in September to a record 555,200, pushing the unemployment rate back down to…
Pace of Existing U.S. Home Sales Inches up but Median Price Drops
Having dropped 1.7 percent in August, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. inched up 0.7 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.39 million transactions…
Plans for Another Big Mid-Market Hotel (and More)
Speaking of proposed Mid-Market hotels, plans for a 12-story building to rise upon the long-vacant lot at 1125 Market Street (upon which the former Bell/American/Embassy Theater once stood adjacent to…
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First Richard Neutra Designed Home in SF Illegally Razed
Built in 1936 and known in architectural circles as the Largent House, the modernist home at 49 Hopkins Avenue hit the market listed for $1.475 million in 2013 and sold…
Clearing the Way for a 10-Story Hotel Right Here
Back in 1908, a rather fine seven-story loft building designed by MacDonald & Applegarth was built upon the 1055 Market Street parcel which stretches from Market to Stevenson Street. A…
Western SoMa Target, CVS and Starbucks Closer to Reality
The formal application to convert the former Sports Authority building at 1690 Folsom Street into a full-service Target has been filed with Planning. The conversion wouldn’t require an expansion of…