Proposed Navigation Center on Post Closer to Reality
With the support of Supervisor Peskin, the formal application to convert the top two floors of the shuttered House of Fans building at 888 Post Street, at the corner of…
Plans for a Palace-Adjacent Home Hit a Historic Snag
As we first outlined a little over a year ago: Hidden behind the Avila Ocean Adventures LLC, a former Facebook engineer turned tech investor purchased the three-bedroom home at 3600…
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Refined Plans for Redevelopment of Historic Tres Site
While Planning balked at the proposed approach for securing two separate office allocations for the redevelopment of the historic Central SoMa building at 130 Townsend Street, which is currently home…
Planning Pans Plans for Underground Sleeping Rooms
As we first outlined a few months ago, plans for a modern SRO building to rise up to 86 feet in height on the southeast corner of South Van Ness…
800-Foot-Tall Tower Slated for Planning’s Approval
San Francisco’s Planning Commission is slated to approve the refined plans for a 61-story tower to rise up to 800 feet in height at 542-550 Howard Street (a.k.a. Transbay Parcel…
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Commissioners Grant Forgiveness for Reimagined $9.4M Home
Following seven months of debate, proffers and delay, San Francisco’s Planning Commission has rejected the requested Discretionary Review (DR) that would have required a redevelopment of the under-permitted designer home…
Select Supervisors Push for Navigation Centers Citywide
With the hotly contested Embarcadero Navigation Center having just opened its doors, and the former Center on Mission having shuttered, there are now seven operating Navigation Centers in the city,…
Bonus-Sized Bayview Development Closer to Reality
As we first reported earlier this year: Having sat vacant since the former meat market on the site was demolished three decades ago, plans to develop the Bayview parcel at…
Draft Plans and Timing for Affordable Condos to Rise in Mission Bay
The draft plans for a below market rate (BMR) condo building to rise up to 8 stories in height on Mission Bay Block 9A, a slender 30,000-square-foot site bounded by…
Detailed Plans for Burned-Out North Beach Site Revealed
As we first reported last week, big plans to demolish the façade of the burned-out Verdi Building at 659 Union Street, between Columbus and Powell in the heart of North…