Plans for Transbay District Grocery Store Nixed
As we first reported last year: It’s now been over two years since Related California cut 99 residential units from their development plans for Transbay Block 8 and reduced the…
Proposed Chestnut Street Infill Project Closer to Reality
As we first reported earlier this year, plans to level the long-standing Wells Fargo branch building at 2055 Chestnut Street and redevelop its Marina District parcel, which stretches from Chestnut…
Plans for ‘The Phoenix’ to Rise on Surplus West Oakland Site
Dubbed ‘The Phoenix’ and not to be confused with Phoenix Lofts, plans for a 316-unit development to rise up to 60 feet in height on the western edge of West…
Modern Mount Olympus Development Even Closer to Reality
As we first reported earlier this year: Plans for a modern 10-unit development to effectively rise on the northwest corner of 17th and Roosevelt, below the summit of San Francisco’s…
Oakland A’s Reveal BIG Plans for Waterfront Ballpark and More
The Oakland A’s have just released their detailed plans for building a new 34,000-seat baseball stadium on the city’s 55-acre Howard Terminal site, adjacent to Jack London Square. As designed…
Closer to Fine (But Not Quite) for Supersized West Oakland Project
Facing pushback from Oakland’s Planning Department with respect to the “monotonous and bulky massing” of the proposed 1,032-unit “Hub” development to rise up to 23 stories in height upon the…
Proposed Oakland Tower Design Refined, Sticking Point Remains
Responding to feedback from Oakland’s Design Review Committee, the facade of Rubicon Point Partners’ proposed 37-story tower to rise up to 423 feet in height at 1750 Broadway, between 17th…
Planning Positioned to Disapprove Whole Foods Redevelopment
Despite having been redesigned to incorporate eight new apartments into their plans, the proposed redevelopment of the shuttered Lombardi Sports building at 1600 Jackson Street, at the corner of Polk,…
UCSF Campus Deemed Historic but Developers Have a Plan
The bid to formally recognize the modernist building at the center of UCSF’s 10-acre Laurel Heights campus as historic, a move which was initiated by opponents of the proposed redevelopment…
Plans for an Historic Renovation, Addition and Repurposing
Built for the Eng-Skell Co. (which is now known as ESCO Foods) in 1930, the three-story Art Deco building at 1035 Howard Street provided laboratory, manufacturing, warehouse and office space…