Plans for the Ultimate San Francisco Penthouse
While the 15,000-square-foot penthouse atop LUMINA’s 42-story Tower B is on the market for $49 million, the existence of which we first reported last year, there’s an even bigger and…
New Timing for San Francisco’s Second Tallest Tower to Rise
With refined designs for a pair of towers and a six-story Urban Room to rise at First and Mission, the tallest of which will reach a height of 910 feet…
Tenderloin Rising: 28 New Condos and Coffee Closer to Reality
The unit count has been reduced from 34 to 28, the proposed off-street parking spaces have been eliminated (except for 28 bikes), and the ground floor retail space is now…
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Governor Brown’s Oakland Hills Home Back on the Market for $2.6M
The Japanese inspired Oakland Hills home at 7257 Skyline Boulevard, which we featured in late 2006 when listed for $2,600,000, and Governor Jerry Brown purchased for $2,425,000 in 2007 having…
Tesla Opening First San Francisco Showroom This Summer
When the Bentley and Lamborghini dealership at Van Ness and O’Farrell moved down the block and combined forces with British Motor Car earlier this year, we were inundated with questions…
Redevelopment of Mel’s Drive-In Abandoned
While the proposed redevelopment of the Mel’s Drive-In on Geary Boulevard had yet to be approved, the required Environmental Review for the project, which would have resulted in at least…
Historic South Park Residential Hotel on the Market for $3.2M
One of the first new structures to rise around South Park after the entire neighborhood was leveled on this day back in 1906, the Gran Oriente Filipino at 106 South…
Massive Second Church of Christ Condo Fetches $6.5 Million
Built as the Second Church of Christ at 651 Dolores Street, overlooking Mission Dolores Park, the 22,000-square-foot building has been converted into four massive three-bedroom condos and newly dubbed The…
Hearing Set for Proposed SoMa Hotel, What Would Dirty Harry Say?
With the lease for the SoMa McDonald’s at Third and Townsend expiring in January 2017, San Francisco’s Planning Commission is now slated to approve the plans for an eleven-story hotel…
Revised Plans for a Prominent Sixth Street Corner and Hotel
As we first reported last year, plans to raze the two-story building on the northeast corner of Sixth and Mission, a building which currently houses The Balmoral South (a 29-room…