Modern Mansion Will Rise but Penthouse Could Get Cut
San Francisco’s Board of Appeals has upheld the approval of a permit to start demolishing the existing 3,835-square-foot home at 255 Sea Cliff Avenue in order to make way for…
Fear of Millennial Revelry Results in Hotel Rebranding and Redesign
Facing pushback from a number of Planning Commissioners who echoed the fears of neighbors that the proposed Moxy Hotel, a Marriott brand which targets the millennial traveler, “who understands that…
How Much Gas Does a Gas Station Pump in San Francisco? (ANSWERED)
With plans for a 177-unit development to rise on the Divisadero Touchless Carwash and Roy’s Shell station site at the corner of Divisadero and Oak moving forward, and building on…
Building Up Berkeley: Five Steel-Skinned Stories as Proposed
Plans to level the former Northwest Berkeley service station turned abandoned tax office at 1740 San Pablo Avenue are in the works. And as proposed, a five-story building with 48…
Approved Plans for Modern Mansion Rankles its Neighbors
Purchased as a meticulously maintained Sea Cliff home for $3.15 million in March of 2012, plans to raze the 3,835-square-foot house at 255 Sea Cliff Avenue soon emerged as did…
Impact of Another Mega-Development about to Be Assessed
With the adjacent Pier 70 project having been approved, the preparation of the required Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the even larger Potrero Power Plant site project, the preliminary plans…
Mid-Market Hotel Closer to Reality and Planning Has a Concern
Having received an exemption from having to complete a resource intensive environmental impact report, and with some confusion as to the historic merits of the existing, versus previous, Kaplan’s Surplus…
Bad News for Hemlock as Plans for Development Move Forward
Plans to level the three-story building which stretches from Hemlock to Sutter, on the west side of Polk Street, and develop a six-story building with 54 apartments averaging around 500…
The Missing Towers of Diamond Heights and Landmark Wall
Up until the 1960s, the total population of Diamond Heights, between Noe Valley and Glen Canyon, was under 400 people. Following a post-World War II population boom resultant housing shortage…
Massive Pier 70 Project Approved
The final approvals for the redevelopment of San Francisco’s 28-acre Pier 70 site, the height limits for which were increased by voters back in 2014, were secured by the development…