Big Plans For 12 Stories And Over 400 New Apartments On Hayes
With the re-skinning and conversion of 100 Van Ness Avenue from an office building to 400 apartments underway, the Emerald Fund has quietly submitted plans to raze the adjacent 108-foot…
More Affordable Housing On Geary Proposed, But Only A Bit
The Western Addition block bounded by Divisadero, Geary, Scott and O’Farrell was developed in the 1960s with six low-rise residential buildings around a central courtyard, the Midtown Park Apartment complex…
Conversion Of Illegal Mid-Market Apartment Building Suspended
Noted by a plugged-in reader last week, San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection and the San Francisco Planning Department have just suspended the building permit for the conversion of 1049…
Historic Market Street Hotel And Club Project Ready To Proceed
As we first reported in 2010, the plans to rehabilitate the Joseph D. Grant Building at 1095 Market Street and convert the eight-story building from office use to a hotel/hostel…
Celebrity Top Chef Suvir Saran Coming To 10th And Market
Celebrity “Top Chef” Suvir Saran has leased 8,500 square feet at the base of NEMA on the corner of 10th and Market Streets with plans to open a yet-to-be-named restaurant…
Ten Story Building Proposed Atop 16th Street BART Station Site
Maximus Real Estate Partners is in contract to buy the 57,000 square foot parcel above the 16th Street BART station on the northeast corner of Mission Street and has submitted…
Is San Francisco Getting The Short End Of The Saitowitz Stick?
With the Stanley Saitowitz designed “Garden Village”, a 77-unit development of 18 interconnected buildings of three to five stories in height with 16 rooftop farm plots above and a fleet…
Targeting Seven Percent More After Seven Months For A Saitowitz
Seven months after having closed escrow on the purchase of condo #202 within the new Stanley Saitowitz designed development at 2020 Ellis Street for $599,000, the buyer has returned the…
The MJB Coffee Building Is Currently Home To A Bunch Of Illegals
Built in 1916 and designed G. Albert Langsburgh, the five-story MJB Coffee building at 665 3rd Street is technically still a print shop which is not legally zoned for office…
Protecting San Francisco’s Historic Fabric Amid Its Boom
With the population of San Francisco projected to grow by 20 percent over the next two decades, hitting the one million mark around 2035, many new buildings will need to…