18-Story Berkeley Development Closer to Reality
Plans to raze the two-story commercial building at the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Allston Way, in the heart of Downtown Berkeley, have been in the works since 2016. And…
BrainWash Building on the Market in Western SoMa
Purchased for $749,000 in 1988, the two-story Western SoMa building at the corner of Folsom and Langton Streets, which was home to the recently shuttered BrainWash cafe and laundromat for…
San Francisco and East Bay Employment Slip, Santa Clara Gains
While seasonal hiring typically ticks employment up at the end of the year, the number of people living in San Francisco with a job slipped by 500 in December to…
Prime Downtown Oakland Parcel Zoned for More Height in Play
The Norman Marks Health Club building on the corner of 14th and Harrison Streets in Downtown Oakland, which had been a family run gym for nearly seven decades, is now…
Boutique Union Square Infill Hotel Closer to Reality
Approved for development back in 2001 but then waylaid by the dotcom collapse, followed by a decline in tourism after 9/11 and then by “the collapse of the housing market…
Amazon Eliminates Bay Area from HQ2 Competition: The Final 20
Having received proposals from 238 suitors, including a Bay Area Council-led bid which combined Concord, Fremont, Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco, Amazon has just released its short-list of 20 cities…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Back above 4%
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched up 5 basis points over the past week to 4.04 percent, which is 5 basis points below the 4.09 percent rate…
Timeline for Adoption of SF’s Big Central SoMa Plan Has Been Reset
Having been pushed back a few months, slipped a few and then pushed back a few more, San Francisco’s Planning Department is now aiming to formally initiate the legislative process…
San Francisco’s First Shake Shack Could Open Right Here
Speaking of big plans for shuttered Real Food Company sites in San Francisco, the owners of the former Cow Hollow location on the southeast corner of Fillmore and Filbert have…
Long-Shuttered Real Food Location Positioning to Reopen
As we first reported a few months ago: “The former Real Food building at 3939 24th Street, in the heart of Noe Valley, has been vacant since 2003 when the…