Five More Transbay Transit Center Lawsuits in the Works
While the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), which is in charge of San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center, has already been named as a defendant in two lawsuits related to…
Help for Victims of the Ghost Ship Fire (UPDATED)
Our thoughts and sympathies are with everyone affected by Friday night’s tragic fire at the Ghost Ship collective on 31st Avenue in Oakland, in with 36 people perished. For those…
Pac Heights Compound Fetches $18.1 Million
Purchased as a legal three-unit building for $7.3 million in early 2014 and then gutted, merged, expanded and “restored,” 2476 Broadway returned to the market listed as a “Stately Pacific…
Contemporary Dogpatch Redevelopment Closer to Reality
The proposed redevelopment of the two-story Watermark Press Building’s parcel at 950 Tennessee Street could be approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission in two weeks time. As designed and newly…
Planning for Proposed 3-Acre Uptown Oakland Project Underway
As proposed, the entire Uptown Oakland block bounded by Telegraph, Broadway, 21st and 22nd Streets will be razed and a 1.35-million square foot development will rise across the 3-acre site…
Plans for a New Union Square Hotel Revealed
The formal application for authorization to convert the vacant Spring Valley Water Company Building at 425 Mason Street, which was originally designed by Willis Polk and built in 1922, from…
Bay Area Home Sales Drop, Mix Drives Median Price Jump in SF
While home sales typically tick up in October, the number of Bay Area single-family homes and condos that traded hands (7,500) dropped 5.4 percent from September to October and was…
49ers’ QB Colin Kaepernick is Selling his Home in San Jose
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, has just put his gated San Jose home at 4903 Eastbourne Court on the market for $2.895 million. Kaepernick purchased the 4,600 square…
Mortgage Rates near Two-Year High, Probability of a Hike: 99%
Having rocketed over half a point (51 basis points) over the past three weeks, a move which shouldn’t have caught any plugged-in readers by surprise, the average rate for a…
San Francisco’s Second Tallest Tower Slated to Open in 2021
With the ceremonial groundbreaking for the massive Oceanwide Center development in Downtown San Francisco slated for December 8, the two new towers to rise up to 910 feet in height…