Too Much Green For The Hood Too Soon? (In More Ways Than One)
After 261 days on the market (and a 9% price cut), the listing for 1303 Alabama (a.k.a. half of the Sunset Idea House) has been withdrawn from the market. No…
More Mission Bay Stripping: Arterra And Mission Creek Sports Courts
While Arterra continues to shed its protective blue skin, the fences around Mission Creek Park’s sports courts have been stripped away as well. The basketball and sand volleyball courts are…
The SocketSite Scoop On The Eight Semi-Solar TICs Of 2828 Greenwich
Readers keep asking, and we finally have all (okay, so more like most) of the answers with regard to 2828 Greenwich Street. Eight TIC units (six two-bedroom/one-bath, two three-bedroom/two-bath); built…
We’re All In Favor (But Wondering If It Will Actually Work)
District 11 Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval’s legislation empowering Planning Department inspectors to issue citations for having an illegally paved-over front yard (or other planning code violations) has received initial approval by…
JustQuotes: More Green For Greener Building Codes In San Francisco
“San Francisco moved a step closer Wednesday to imposing the country’s most stringent green building codes, regulations that would require new large commercial buildings and residential high-rises to contain such…
Arterra (300 Berry) Selectively Starts To Shed Its Bovis Blue Wrapper
As a number of plugged-in readers have noted, Arterra has selectively started to shed its Bovis blue wrapper (which we really think should have been green). And while they were…
The SocketSite Scoop: The Build Inc. Proposal For Seawall Lot 337
Thanks to a seriously plugged-in tipster, we have the sketch (larger size) and additional details for Build Inc.’s proposal for the development of San Francisco’s Seawall Lot 337 (SWL 337):…
Model For Turning Treasure Island Into A “Green City Of The Future”
At first there was a rendering and master plan for the future of Treasure Island. Now there’s a model and more geeky details (which we happen to love) emerging. According…
Planning For 5,700 New Homes In San Francisco’s Parkmerced
From J.K. Dineen at the San Francisco Business Times: “Parkmerced’s owners want to add 5,700 housing units to San Francisco’s largest apartment complex in a dramatic redesign that would cost…
San Francisco Idea House Update: Open Into January And A Reduction
As a plugged-in reader noted last week, Sunset’s San Francisco Idea House webpage has been updated to read: The San Francisco Idea House will be open from 11/30/2007 through 1/27/2008…