Conceptual Designs For The Missing 400-Foot Mid-Market Tower
As a number of readers quickly noted, the contextual renderings for the proposed Mid-Market tower to rise up to 450-feet at 30 Otis omitted a massing for the 400-foot tower…
Plans For 250-Foot Tower And Designs For 200 Feet More
The preliminary plans for the corner parcels at the intersection of Otis, South Van Ness and 12th Street, which we first reported were on the market last year and zoned…
Purchase Of Land To Build $889K Affordable Apartments Approved
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved the City’s $18.5 million purchase of the corner parcel at 490 South Van Ness Avenue and 16th Street in the Mission, a…
Oh Say Can You See What Should Be On This Site?
The century-old Francis Scott Key Annex building, a former two-story school, sits on a nearly one and one-half acre parcel of land fronting 42nd and 43rd Avenue, between Irving and…
Castro & Upper Market Retail Strategy Report
There are currently around 30 vacant retail spaces along the Castro and Upper Market retail corridor and the vacancy rate is hovering around 8 percent, nearly twice the city’s overall…
$10 Million Could Buy A City Block In San Francisco
After nearly two years on the market without any movement, and despite a neighborhood campaign to secure the land for community use, the asking price for the 2.2 acre Portola…
Proposed Waterfront High-Rise Fully Rendered, Ready For Review
Sporting its new ‘stacked gardens’ design by SOM, the proposed 220-foot waterfront building to rise at 75 Howard Street, with 133 market-rate condos over a restaurant, café and underground ‘parking…
Grand Jury: SF’s $25B Construction Program Needs Tech Overhaul
A Civil Grand Jury report with respect to the management of the City of San Francisco’s $25 billion City construction program has concluded that “it needs work” and a tech…
City Preparing RFP For Contentious Affordable Development
Identified by the Port of San Francisco as “the greatest affordable housing development opportunity among the Port’s seawall lots in the northeastern waterfront,” the Mayor’s Office of Housing has been…
San Francisco’s Downtown Plan And Monitoring Report
A core tenet of San Francisco’s Downtown Plan states, “without sufficient and appropriate housing to serve new commercial development, local housing costs increase, thereby compromising the vitality of downtown.” Or…