The Designs For Sixth And Howard Before Redevelopment Was Razed
While the razing of the Hugo Hotel and construction of nine new stories at 200 6th Street has been waylaid by the loss of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, a…
Hugo Hotel Hangs On As Redevelopment Agency Is Dropped
The proposed Kennerly Architecture & Planning designed nine-story mixed-use building slated to rise at 200 6th Street has been waylaid by the loss of San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency which Mercy…
Cathedral Hill Hotel Demolition Paperwork Filed, Poised To Fall
With a special Planning Commission hearing scheduled for Thursday, at which approvals for CPMC’s Long Range Development Plans, including a new Cathedral Hill Hospital, are expected to be approved following…
Let There Be The Light (And Rooftop Garden) Of Day At 601 Dolores
As we first reported last year, it was the Children’s Day School that ended up purchasing the “Castle on the Park” at 601 Dolores with plans to convert the 17,000…
Under Construction On 9th Avenue With (Or Without) A La Boulange
The demolition of the vacant two-story funeral home and parking lot at 1266 9th Avenue was approved in 2008 along with plans to construct a four-story building with 15 residential…
The Chinese Hospital’s Plans, Will The Mayor Make Demands?
The original Chinese Hospital building at 835 Jackson was built in 1924 and converted to a Medical Administration Building for the hospital when the adjacent 43,368 square foot Chinese Hospital…
Cracking Down On Unkempt Foreclosed Upon Properties In SF
Citing an uptick in foreclosure activity in San Francisco (“…there were 927 actual foreclosures in the 2010-2011 fiscal year or an average of 83 per month. This figure represents a…
A La Aboard The Titanic, The “Occupy” Band Played On
As plugged-in people know, the three existing buildings on 17th Street between De Haro and Carolina are slated to be razed with two mirror image mixed-use buildings yielding 7,000 square…
San Francisco Water Taxi Service Take Two
Having issued a request for providers in 2009 and approved a proposal from San Francisco Water Taxi LLC to provide water taxi service in San Francisco from South Beach to…
Formulating Controls To Chase Financial Services Away
There are 39 Districts within San Francisco in which Formula Retail controls which limit or prohibit formula retail apply, controls “adopted to maintain the unique visual character of the City’s…