Plans for an Eight-Story Tourist Hotel on Sixth Street
The second floor of the two-story building on the northeast corner of Sixth and Mission is currently The Balmoral South, a 29-room residential hotel (a.k.a. SRO) with a sex shop…
From Wholesale Meats to Showplace Condos
Built for the Schweitzer Wholesale Meat Company in 1936, most recently occupied by Paige Glass, and currently available for rent with a two to three year term, plans to raze…
Settlement Reached for 46-Story Mexican Museum Tower to Rise
Waylaid by a pair of lawsuits filed by a group of neighbors in the adjacent Four Seasons building at 765 Market Street, a settlement has been reached to allow Millennium…
No Sale for Iconic Flintstone House (UPDATED)
Having hit the market for $4.2 million three months ago, the listing for the iconic ‘Flintstone House’ at 45 Berryessa Way has just been removed from the MLS without a…
Bayview Police Station Sells for $1.6 Million
Built in 1915 to serve residents of Bayview and Potrero Hill, the original South East Police Station on Newcomb Avenue, between Third and Newhall, was shuttered in the 1990’s when…
Glen Park Owl House Fetches $2.95 Million with Plans
Designed by architect Jeremy Kotas and dubbed the Owl House, for reasons beyond simply being perched high on a hill, 140 Laidley Street quietly traded hand in 2009 for $2.35…
Supervisors Reject Sale of Mid-Market Tower Site
While the sale of the City’s five-story building at 30 Van Ness Avenue, a building which sits upon a parcel which is zoned for development up to 400 feet in…
Another Peek at the 240 Pacific Project, Progress and Timing
With an approved plan for mitigating the environmental impacts of the proposed development and preserving any archaeological finds having been inked, we now have a couple of fresh perspectives and…
Five Months Later and $151K Less for a Historic Lower Haight Home
Purchased for $3.45 million five months ago when listed as “a Gump’s Collectors Edition catalog, a hacienda in San Miguel Allende, a Victorian Style Book – all in one,” the…
Elbo Room Lease Extended through 2017
While the Elbo Room’s lease expired last month, and the owners of the venue at 645 Valencia have been working on plans to demolish the building and construct nine condos…