Pushback on Plans for Skyline-Defining Tower
As we first revealed earlier this year: Plans to raze the 11-story Hearst Parking Center complex at 45-53 Third Street, which extends all the way to Annie and currently provides…
Infill Development Completely Redesigned, Closer to Reality
With the bulky plans for a 9-story, 106-unit development to rise on the two-story garage and office building site at 955 Post Street having met with resistance from Planning, from…
Plans for SRO Units To Rise on Phoenix Site Closer To Reality
Plans to level the Phoenix Irish Bar & Gathering House at 811 Valencia Street and build six stories of single-room occupancy (SRO) units on the Inner Mission site have been…
Even Bigger Plans for Assembled SoMa Site
As we outlined back in 2014: Residents in north-facing condos at the Palms – or fans of the Marina Auto Body shop – take note: plans to raze the auto…
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Proposed Terraced Tower and Expectations Take Three
As we first revealed back in early 2017: The designs for a modern 200-foot-tall hotel and condo building to rise at 447 Battery Street, a site which is currently occupied…
Exemption for Modern Infill Project Upheld, But…
As we outlined back in June: The “necessary, desirable, and compatible” plans for a decidedly modern infill development of four little single-family dwellings to rise up to 20 feet in…
Refined Plans for Building Up Central SoMa
While plans to construct a new six-story building rising up to 65 feet in height behind the brick façade of the two-story building at 531-535 Bryant Street, which was built…
No Red Flags for Bigger North Beach Project as Envisioned
As we revealed earlier this year: Having never recovered from stated concerns that a proposed four-story hotel to rise on the former Tower Records Annex turned bike rental parcel at…
Plans to Expand and Convert the Bro’s Building on Stockton
Designed by Albert Pissis and built to house the Roos Bro’s clothing and gent’s furnishings business back in 1907, the four-story building at 2 Stockton Street, which was most recently…
Hillside Plans Newly Rendered and Massed for Effect
As we first revealed earlier this year, plans for a 24-unit development to rise up to 40 feet in height along Diamond Street, on the hillside overlooking Noe Valley, between…