Refined Plans and Timing for the Next Big Transbay District Park
The concept design for San Francisco’s future 2.4-acre Under Ramp Park, which will run from the south side of Folsom Street to Howard, between First and Second and predominantly under…
New Timing for Major Visitacion Valley Redevelopment
Shuttered back in 1999, the old Schlage Lock factory and Southern Pacific Railyard parcel along Bayshore Boulevard, near the heart of Visitacion Valley, was leveled 10 years later in order…
Oakland Tower Newly Rendered, City Seeks Outstanding Design
As we first reported earlier this year: Plans for a pair of residential towers to rise up to 275 feet in height at 325 Seventh Street, on the edge of…
The Opening of San Francisco’s New Transit Center is Here
Having won the city’s design competition back in 2007, broken ground in 2010 and been renamed by way of a 25-year licensing deal last year, San Francisco’s new (Transbay) Salesforce…
Plan to Shape Dogpatch Slated for Adoption
In the works since 2014, the City’s Central Waterfront / Dogpatch Public Realm Plan, which is intended to both guide and prioritize the development of new neighborhood public spaces, streetscapes…
Flower Mart Moving to Bayview, Redevelopment Plans Ramping Up
With San Francisco’s ambitious Central SoMa Plan moving closer to adoption, which could clear the way for Kilroy’s massive redevelopment of the existing San Francisco Flower Mart site, plans to…
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…
City Aims for Adoption of Ambitious Central Soma Plan in September
With a total of sixty-four (64) amendments having been proposed by Supervisor Kim, including incentives for the construction of on-site affordable housing units, requiring developments to secure a building permit…
Supervisors Aim to Cement Support for Expansion of Rent Control
If adopted by voters in November, California Proposition 10 would overturn the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act which prevents rent control from applying to single-family homes, condos or any multifamily…
Timing and Cost of Affordable Family Housing to Rise in Mission Bay
As we first reported earlier this year: As designed by Paulett Taggart Architects and Studio Vara for Mercy Housing, the proposed development to rise up to 74 feet in height,…