155 Fifth Street Rendered And Reopening (Wide) In 2014
As we reported last year, The University of the Pacific purchased the seven-story building at 155 Fifth Street with plans to reface and renovate the building with the first five…
Is Bruce Lee’s Birthplace Historic Or Soon To Be History?
As plugged-in people know, the Chinese Hospital plans to raze their 29,793 square foot building at 835 Jackson and build a 101,545 square foot hospital in its place, a plan…
Apples-To-Apples And Two Years Later At The Artani
As we wrote last month: While the Artani sales office still has around ten unsold units left to sell over at 818 Van Ness Avenue, #203 has returned to the…
100 Van Ness Repurposed, Redesigned And Rendered
In the background of the aerial rendering for the proposed tower to rise at One Van Ness, the existing 400 foot building at 100 Van Ness lurks. As proposed and…
How One Rincon Could Really Become A Giant Ionic Breeze
Alcoa is currenlty testing EcoClean, a new coating for its Reynobond building panels. As a photocatalyst, titanium dioxide interacts with sunlight to break down organic matter both on and floating…
The San Francisco Bay Guardian Sells (Out?)
Union Property Capital (UPC) is in contract is to purchase the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Potrero Hill headquarters building at 135 Mississippi for $6.5 million. Guardian owner Bruce Brugmann purchased…
Hugo Hotel Hangs On As Redevelopment Agency Is Dropped
The proposed Kennerly Architecture & Planning designed nine-story mixed-use building slated to rise at 200 6th Street has been waylaid by the loss of San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency which Mercy…
Cathedral Hill Hotel Demolition Paperwork Filed, Poised To Fall
With a special Planning Commission hearing scheduled for Thursday, at which approvals for CPMC’s Long Range Development Plans, including a new Cathedral Hill Hospital, are expected to be approved following…
Apples-To-Apples, And 2008 To Today, On Russian Hill
As we wrote three months ago: Back in March of 2008 we first featured the before and after floor plans for 1080 Chestnut #7D which had just hit the market…
Let There Be The Light (And Rooftop Garden) Of Day At 601 Dolores
As we first reported last year, it was the Children’s Day School that ended up purchasing the “Castle on the Park” at 601 Dolores with plans to convert the 17,000…