An Unpermitted Reskin and Resultant Surprise
Purchased as a little two-unit building with “old world charm” for $2.175 million in April of 2018, permits to expand and remodel the two units at 842-844 Lyon Street were…
Target Timing for Supersized Polk Gulch Mortuary Project
As we revealed last year, the big plans for redeveloping the Polk Gulch funeral home parcel at 1123 Sutter Street and adjacent three-story garage at the corner of Sutter and…
The Refined Plans for That Decaying/Historic Portola Block
While an attempt to landmark the decaying remains of the Garibaldi family’s old University Mound Nursery (a.k.a The Rose Factory) at 770 Woolsey Street in order to stymie the proposed…
Tenderloin Development Redesigned, Slated for Approval
Having been redesigned by Brick to retain and incorporate the existing garage’s façade on the O’Farrell Street site, a façade which was known to be a contributor to San Francisco’s…
Refined Timing and RFP to Activate SF’s Temporary Terminal Site
With the waylaid redevelopment of San Francisco’s shuttered Temporary Terminal site not expected to break ground until sometime in 2022 (at the earliest), and construction on the southern third of…
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San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline Drops 5 Percent, But…
Having hit a record high at the end of 2019, the number of apartments and condos now under development in San Francisco (i.e., the city’s housing pipeline) has since dropped…
City Seeking Developers for Nine Affordable Housing Sites
The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development has issued a bulk request for qualified development teams interested in developing one or more of the following nine sites upon which…
Planning Angles for Housing Atop the Old Bro’s Building
As we outlined back in September, plans to add four new floors of office space atop the old Roos Bro’s clothing and gent’s furnishings building at 2 Stockton Street, which…
Surprise! That’s Not a Legal Parking Spot (Or Unit)
While common in practice and rarely enforced, parking in the setback/driveway between a home’s garage and the sidewalk in San Francisco is technically illegal per Planning Code Section 132(f), and…
Revised Plans for Building up in the Mission
As we revealed back in 2017, plans to demolish the two-story building at 2976 Mission Street, which then contained two 1900s-era residential units, one of which was unpermitted, over a…