Condos To Replace Canton Seafood, Over 300 Units Could Rise
Having been on the boards for a couple of years, the formal application to raze the two-story Canton Seafood & Dim sum restaurant at 655 Folsom and construct a 14-story…
Getty Mansion Sells For $12.5M, One Million More Than In 2002
The Pacific Heights mansion at 2900 Vallejo Street which William and Vanessa Getty purchased for $11.5 million in 2002, listed for $16 million a little over a year ago and…
San Francisco’s Downtown Plan And Monitoring Report
A core tenet of San Francisco’s Downtown Plan states, “without sufficient and appropriate housing to serve new commercial development, local housing costs increase, thereby compromising the vitality of downtown.” Or…
A Decade Of Evictions In San Francisco By District And Type
Over the past ten years, a total of 5,470 rent-controlled housing units have been cleared of tenants and removed from the rental market in San Francisco by way of no-fault…
Planning Commission Initiates Mission District Mini-Moratorium
San Francisco’s Planning Commission has voted to consider enacting “Interim Controls” for new market-rate housing, office and retail developments in the Mission. The stated intent is to provide the City…
Housing Policy Hypocrisy In San Francisco?
While the Mayor’s Office has agreed to spend a potential record-setting amount to purchase a Mission District development site in order to build 72 units of affordable housing, the City…
Proposed Waterfront Tower Rendered With Five New Towers As Well
Earlier this week we revealed the new design for the proposed 20-story residential tower to rise at 75 Howard Street, with 133 market rate condos over 6,000 square feet of…
Office Rents In S.F. Nearing An All-Time High, Deal Flow Slows
The net occupancy of office space in San Francisco increased by a nominal 66,000 square feet in the second quarter of the year, the smallest quarterly increase in two years…
City To Pay Luxury Price For Affordable Mission District Development
The City of San Francisco has agreed to pay $18.5 million for the former “Quality Tune-Up” site at 490 South Van Ness Avenue and 16th Street in the Mission, a…
Affordable Housing Bond Report And Average Rent-Control Tenancy
An interesting factoid with respect to rent control tenants in San Francisco from the City’s Economic Impact Report for the proposed $310 million General Obligation bond to support Affordable Housing…