Timing for New Transbay District Parks Pushed Back
With the timing to complete San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center having slipped, the groundbreaking for the future Transbay Park, which will occupy the middle third of the Temporary Transbay…
Timing for Contentious Development at the Base of Telegraph Hill
With the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development having formally determined that the proposed development of 178 affordable apartments to rise up to six stories in height across the…
This Will Define San Francisco in 2018
Yes, the proposed development to rise at Fourth and Harrison has been redesigned by HOK for Boston Properties, incorporating a more curvilinear approach which would rise up to a height…
Another Waylaid Development Slated for Approval in the Mission
Waylaid by the Mission District Development Controls which are set to expire on January 14, 2018, the plans for a 37-unit building to rise up to seven stories upon the…
A Century of Planning in San Francisco
Back in 1904, San Francisco Mayor James Phelan convened the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco, a private group which invited the visionary Daniel Burnham to create…
Pipeline of Residential Development in San Francisco Drops
With the number of new units of housing in San Francisco that finished up construction in the third quarter of the year having outpaced the total of those which were…
Details behind the City’s Big Deal for Beleaguered McDonald’s Site
While originally expected to cost the city around $10 million, an agreement for the City of San Francisco to purchase the beleaguered McDonald’s at the corner of Stayan and Haight…
Affordable Development Appealed by Neighbor in Telegraph Hill
While the proposed development of 178 affordable apartments to rise up to six stories in height across the half-block-plus parking lot parcel at 88 Broadway, a development which the Telegraph…
Plans for Semi-Massive Presidio Heights Development Formalized
The formal application to move forward with the semi-massive redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street has just been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department.…
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee Has Died at the Age of 65
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died from a heart attack early this morning at the age of 65. As such, Board of Supervisors President London Breed is now the acting…