The Mayor’s Seven Point Plan To Solve San Francisco’s Housing Crisis
At the heart of Mayor Lee’s state of the city address this morning, a seven point plan to address San Francisco’s housing “crisis” with a goal of adding at least…
The Final Map For 115 Miles Of Green Connections To Crisscross SF
The final map for 115 miles of walking and biking paths to crisscross San Francisco will be officially unveiled next week on December 4, along with the conceptual plans for…
Bay Area Plan To Support 2 Million More People Up For Vote
The Bay Area transportation, land-use and housing plan which is based on an expected increase in Bay Area population from roughly 7 million to 9 million people over the next…
Starbucks’ Market Street Plan Shot Down By Planning
Following the Planning Department’s recommendation and reasoning, San Francisco’s Planning Commission has voted 5 to 1 against Starbucks’ proposal to take over the retail space at 2201 Market Street at…
Unintended Consequences: A Squat Five Stories Down In SoMa
Zoned for mixed use residential development up to 45-feet in height, the one-story SoMa building at 259 Clara Street which was built in 1956 and most recently served as a…
The Vision For San Francisco’s Fourth And King Street Railyard
At the heart of the Mayor’s proposal to tear down the end of I-280 in San Francisco is the redevelopment of the Caltrain railyard between SoMa and Mission Bay, the…
Conflicting Plans For The Corner Of Brannan And Fifth
The draft Western SoMa Community Plan which was approved by the Planning Commission this past December and will be before the Board of Supervisors in early 2013 would rezone the…
A Bold Plan To Tear Down I-280 North Of 16th Street In San Francisco
With a conceptual plan to take down I-280 north of 16th Street in San Francisco, eliminating the ramps at Sixth and Brannan and at Fourth and King and building a…
Putting Lipstick on the Red-Tagged Pig of Pier 38?
Bids to rehabilitate the Pier 38 bulkhead structure and a portion of the Pier 38 shed, the pier from which a whole host of startups and two venture capital firms…
Big Plans For The “Short-Sited” SoMa Block At 8th And Harrison
Upon the nearly full-block bus depot site at 8th and Harrison Streets, an eight building multi-use development with over 400 residential units and 22,000 square feet of retail, office and…