Unpermitted Live/Work Warehouse on the Market in the Mission
While not currently permitted for either office or residential use, the Mission District warehouse building at 3075 21st Street has been carved up into a warren of “offices,” at least…
Sale of Uber’s Uptown Station Has Closed, Opening Late 2018
The sale of the waylaid Uptown Station development at 1945 Broadway in Uptown Oakland, which has been under construction since 2015 when Uber purchased the former Sears building for $123.5…
Oakland A’s Relegate New Ballpark Site to the Disabled List
Two weeks ago the Peralta Community College District’s Board of Trustees directed the college district’s Chancellor to immediately discontinue talks with the Oakland Athletics who were positioning to acquire the…
Details behind the City’s Big Deal for Beleaguered McDonald’s Site
While originally expected to cost the city around $10 million, an agreement for the City of San Francisco to purchase the beleaguered McDonald’s at the corner of Stayan and Haight…
Tenant Buyouts of up to $310,000 in San Francisco since 2015
Since March of 2015, when San Francisco started regulating “buyout agreements” between landlords and their tenants, a total of 772 buyout agreements have been inked and reported, as mapped above.…
Take Three for an East Bay Infill Project
With false starts in both 1991 and 2002, at which points 34-unit and 32-unit buildings had been approved and permitted, and site prep had actually gotten underway but was subsequently…
Affordable Development Appealed by Neighbor in Telegraph Hill
While the proposed development of 178 affordable apartments to rise up to six stories in height across the half-block-plus parking lot parcel at 88 Broadway, a development which the Telegraph…
Infilling Cole Valley as Envisioned
When the large Cole Valley Victorian at the corner of Carl and Stanyan, which is known as the Lange House, sold for $3.15 million in mid-2014, the sale included the…
Collective of Modern Condos Closer to Reality
As we first reported last year: Plans to level the two-story Auto Trust Services building at 255 Shipley Street have been drafted. And as proposed, a modern four-story building designed…
Plans for Semi-Massive Presidio Heights Development Formalized
The formal application to move forward with the semi-massive redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street has just been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department.…