Fissure Forces Closure of New Salesforce Transit Center
A newly discovered fissure in at least one of the steel beams which supports the roof and 5.4-acre park atop the new Salesforce Transit Center has resulted in an emergency…
Former Building Inspection Commission President Tagged for Fraud
San Francisco’s City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, has just filed suit against construction engineering firm Santos & Urrutia Associates, its principals and several clients and contractors over “an elaborate scheme” to…
Inventory of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Hits 7-Year High
Following a trend which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the number of homes actively listed for sale in the San Francisco (900) has just hit a 7-year high…
Path for Trains to Reach SF’s New Transit Center Has Been Picked
As we expected and first foreshadowed earlier this year, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority has officially adopted the Pennsylvania Avenue Alignment as the preferred path by which trains should…
Inventory of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Jumps
In a move which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the number of homes actively listed for sale in the San Francisco (765) jumped 39 percent over the past…
Port Soliciting Concepts for Thirteen of San Francisco’s Historic Piers
The Port of San Francisco has just issued a formal solicitation of developers and tenants interested in redeveloping thirteen of San Francisco’s historic piers, along with the Agriculture Building adjacent…
Bay Area Employment Slips, San Francisco Nears Negative Growth
The unemployment rate in San Francisco jumped from 2.1 to 2.7 percent in June as the number of people living in the city with a job dropped by 1,600 to…
Three Leading Proposals for the Redevelopment of Fort Scott
The Presidio Trust has just completed their preliminary review of the nine (9) concept proposals for the redevelopment of the roughly two dozen buildings spread across 30 acres of the…
First Tenants of SF’s Transbay / Salesforce Transit Center Identified
With San Francisco’s new Transbay/Salesforce Transit Center and rooftop park slated to open on August 12, the first four (4) leases for the center’s thirty-five (35) potential retail/restaurant/commercial spaces have…
Battle over Newly Approved Rincon Hill Development Rages On
The waylaid plans for a modern residential building to rise up to 84 feet in height at 430 Main/429 Beale Street were, in fact, approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission…