Tower Car Wash Redevelopment Plans Take Two (Or Three)
As referenced by J.K. Dineen a few weeks ago, Trumark Urban has been working on plans to raze the Tower Car Wash and gas station on the southwest corner of…
New Kiosks To Activate The Ferry Building’s North Arcade
The east wall of the Ferry Building’s north arcade originally contained passenger ticketing windows, windows which were in-filled in the 1950s and in front of which steel storage enclosures were…
A Nob Hill Penthouse For $100K Less Than Eight Years Ago
Purchased for $1,625,000 in 2006, returned to the market in 2009 listed for $1,395,000, and then foreclosed upon and taken back by the bank in 2011, the Nob Hill penthouse…
Plans For Low-Slung Berkeley Shopping Center Show Potential
Plans to redevelop the 30,000-square-foot Bancroft Center retail complex, across the street from the UC Berkeley campus, have been drawn and the owners of the center have engaged Colliers to…
San Francisco Awash In Orange
From the Ferry Building to City Hall and at least eight major points between, San Francisco will be lit up in Orange this evening in support of the Giants, as…
The Ultimate Swinger’s Pad On South Park Sells For $5.7M
As plugged-in people know, there’s a rather modern home hidden behind the traditional San Francisco façade at 41 South Park, a two-unit building which was rebuilt as a single-family residence…
Storied Spreckels Mansion Quietly Sells For $10M
Both Jack London and Danny Glover have called the former Spreckels Mansion home. And at one point in the 1960’s, the ballroom atop the 8,400-square-foot pad at 737 Buena Vista…
Plans The Raze The Elbo Room Move Closer To Reality
Despite widely publicized assurances to the contrary, plans to raze the Elbo Room to make way for new condos to rise at 645 Valencia Street are expeditiously moving forward and…
Ritz-Carlton Club Planning to Convert Hotel Rooms to Condos
When the Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences project was originally approved for development, adding eight stories to the old Chronicle Building at 690 Market Street and converting it to residential use,…
Tech Couple Planning First Eight-Figure Noe Valley Estate
When the young tech couple “who like to entertain” purchased the 6,000-square-foot home at 625 Duncan Street for $7 million earlier this year, it became the most expensive home to…