Price Tag For YouTube Founder’s Penthouse Pad: $8,000,000
The day after we broke the news, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen’s penthouse pad was quickly listed with two bedrooms, which includes “the game room” from which the pool table has…
Coming Up Short (In More Ways Than One): The Crib Crib Closes
As we first reported in July: Listed as a one-bedroom for $765,000 when The Hales Warehouse first hit the market in 2007, 410 Jessie #603 was purchased for $749,700 that…
Razing The Roof Over The Old Francisco Street Reservoir
In early 2008, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission floated the idea of selling off the Francisco Reservoir to developers with hopes of getting as much as $50 million for…
The Agent Won The Race (But Lost The War) Over On Berry Street
As we wrote in April: In default since January 2011 when already $34,633 past due on a $727,920 first, and originally scheduled to first hit the courthouse steps last month…
Zynga’s Business Is Now worth Less Than Its Building
Having cut projections once again, Zynga is currently trading at $2.32 a share for a market cap of $1.76 billion. With around a billion and a half dollars of cash…
The New ACT For The Shuttered Strand Theater On Market Street
Constructed in 1917, the Strand Theater at 1127 Market Street has sat vacant and boarded up since 2003 when it was raided and closed down by the San Francisco Police…
Timeline And Key Milestones For Building The Warriors Arena In SF
The official project schedule, key dates, and milestones for building an arena upon San Francisco’s Piers 30-32 for the Golden State Warriors in time for the 2017-18 NBA season with…
Planning’s Conceptual Strategy For The Market Street Safeway Site
In their draft Market-Octavia Neighborhood Plan, San Francisco’s Planning Department identified the Market Street Safeway site bounded by Market, Church and Duboce Streets as “the single largest opportunity site outside…
Leticia’s Has Finally Fallen, Five Stories Set To Rise At 2200 Market
The application to demolish the single story restaurant and surface area parking lot at the corner of Market, 15th and Sanchez Streets (most recently dba as Laticia’s) was first filed…
Groundbreaking Twin Peaks Tavern Recommended For Landmarking
An old Irish dive bar with its windows covered so that “wives couldn’t see their husbands drinking” when purchased by two lesbians in 1972, the windows of the Twin Peaks…