Refurbishing West Oakland
Currently home to Oakland Technology Exchange West, which has refurbished nearly 40,000 donated computers which were then gifted to low-income East Bay families or sold at a deep discount to…
Bonus Height Debate Turned Up to Eleven and 100 Percent
Four months ago we reported that the debate over San Francisco’s proposed Affordable Housing Bonus Program (AHBP), which would allow market-rate developers to build up to two stories higher than…
Progress for Big Oakland Project Which Could Have Been Bigger
Identified as Opportunity Site #6 in Oakland’s Lake Merritt Station Area Plan, the 226 13th Street parcel, which is currently a parking lot bounded by 13th, Jackson, 14th and Alice…
Mayor Lee to Lucas: This Is the Site You’re Looking For
While George Lucas hasn’t yet abandoned all plans to build his $700 million Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in Chicago, Mayor Ed Lee has been lobbying behind the scenes for Lucas…
Academy of Art Could Lose a Quarter of Its Student Housing
While now battling a civil suit filed by the City with respect to its illegal conversion and unpermitted use of the vast majority of the 40 properties it owns in…
Board Could Quickly Act to Amend Troublesome Law for Airbnb
The proposed ordinance which could require Airbnb to remove up to 75 percent of their estimated 9,500 listings in San Francisco, or face penalties that could theoretically total well over…
Mission District Development Reimagined: Beauty or Beast?
Facing pushback from the neighborhood and powers that be, developer Nick Podell and team circled back to the drawing board and returned with a “completely reimagined” proposal for the development…
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Initiative to Challenge Law Which Limits Development
Approved by San Francisco voters in 1986, Proposition M established an annual cap on the amount of office space that’s allowed to be developed in the city. While the annual…
Mission Bay Could Have Ferry Service Come 2022
The Port of San Francisco is preparing to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design of a ferry landing in Mission Bay. And based on the Port’s internal…
San Francisco Sues Academy of Art over Real Estate Misuse
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit against the Academy of Art University today, alleging that the institution “schemed to violate state and local laws in its aggressive acquisition…