Initiative to Establish a Community Housing Program (and Tax) in SF
The paperwork for a proposed ballot measure to establish a new “Community Housing Program” and parcel tax in San Francisco has just been filed with the Department of Elections. If…
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…
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…
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…
Certification of the Central SoMa Plan’s Impact Report Pushed Back
The public hearing at which San Francisco’s Planning Commission could certify the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the City’s ambitious Central SoMa Plan has been pushed back to May 10.…
Plans to Build Higher on Harrison Closer to Reality
As we first reported last year, plans to raze the two-story Fast Signs Building on the northwest corner of Harrison and Hawthorne Streets and develop a 14-story residential building, with…
San Francisco’s First Whole Foods 365 Slated for Approval
In the works since 2016 and having survived a proposed formula retail ban, plans to convert the shuttered Lombardi Sports building at 1600 Jackson Street, at the corner of Polk,…