New Plans for Contentious Castro Site
Following Starbucks’ failed bid to renovate and occupy the existing retail space on the southwest corner of Market and Sanchez back in 2013, plans for a six-story building with nine…
Academy of Art Has More Illegal Buildings than First Reported
As we first reported last year, of the 40 known properties currently operated by the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, 30 appeared to be operating illegally without necessary…
No Full-Service Grocery for Transbay Block 8 in Sight
One year after having cut 99 residential units from their development plans for Transbay Block 8 and reduced the project’s proposed grocery store space from 22,000 to 12,500 square feet,…
Canton Seafood Condos Closer to Reality
The plans for razing the two-story Canton Seafood & Dim Sum restaurant at 655 Folsom Street and constructing a modern 14-story building, with 89 condos over 2,300 feet of commercial…
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Planning Recommends Proposed 200-Foot Tower Be Cut in Half
While principally zoned for development up to 200-feet in height, Peninsular Realty’s plans to demolish the two-story Il Massimo building at 439 Washington Street and construct a 22-story hotel, with…
A Galvanizing SoMa Proposal
Plans to gut the San Francisco Galvanizing Works building at 1176 Harrison Street are in the works. And as proposed, a second floor would be added within the envelope of…
San Francisco’s Other One Percent: Recipients of Affordable Housing
With an initiative designed to double the number of “affordable” units of housing that developers must provide or fund when building market-rate units in San Francisco headed for the June…
Refined Plans for Fast-Tracked Potrero Project and Restaurant Scoop
The fast-tracked hearing for Martin Building Company’s proposed 88 Arkansas Street development to rise up to five-stories at 17th and Arkansas, across from Jackson Park in Lower Potrero Hill, is…
The Race to Landmark or Raze Hap’s Old Mission District Haunt
A member of the American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame, Loren ‘Hap’ Jones was a pioneer in motorcycle riding, racing and culture. And he was the first civilian to cross…
The Options for Redeveloping SF’s Railyard, Tracks and I-280’s End
The City of San Francisco has narrowed the potential options for connecting Caltrain and High Speed Rail to the Transbay Center and potentially across to the East Bay, redeveloping the…