More Density for 520-Foot-Tall Hub District Tower as Envisioned
The preliminary plans for a 520-foot-tall tower to rise on the Hub District parcel at 30 Van Ness Avenue have been newly refined. And while an additional story of office…
New Life and Passage for a Market Street Plaza as Proposed
While technically a 13,000-square-foot “plaza,” the area between the two downtown buildings at 555 and 575 Market Street was effectively privatized and turned into an elevated walkway and entrance to…
Plans to Develop “Too Tall” Hotel Tower Progress (And Grow)
Plans to demolish the two-story Il Massimo building at 439 Washington Street and construct a skinny 22-story hotel with 189 rooms over 3,500 square feet of retail space upon the…
The Latest Inventory of SF’s Housing Stock and Actual Development
Including finished new construction projects and conversions, 4,441 net-new units of housing were added to San Francisco’s stock of housing last year, down 12 percent from 5,046 in 2016 but…
Tunneling to the Transbay: Most Likely Approach and Timing
While there are technically three possible routes by which trains are slated to eventually reach San Francisco’s new Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center, in terms of the most probable path, there are…
$20 Million Price Cut for a Subdividable Silicon Valley Estate
Designed by the late Goodwin Steinberg and built atop a 48-acre plot of former dairy land in Los Altos Hills, back in 1987, the nearly 9,000 square foot home and…
34-Room Hotel on the Market for $32 Million in Western SoMa
The 34-room City Center Inn & Suites hotel at 240 7th Street is now on the market with a $32 million price tag in Western SoMa. While it might seem…
Nine-Story NoPa Development in the Works
The façade of the F. Lofrano & Son auto body garage at 1355 Fulton Street is currently slated to be saved. But plans to level the bulk of the 14,000-square-foot…
Plans to Expand the Historic Mark Hopkins Hotel
Plans to expand the historic InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel atop Nob Hill at 999 California Street, which was sold to Leadwell Global Property for $206 million last year, are in…
Delivery of New Development Driving the Office Market in SF
The average asking rent for office space in San Francisco inched up 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2018 to an all-time high of $71.40 per square foot per…