When San Francisco’s 300-acre Mission Bay neighborhood is “fully developed,” it is slated to encompass 6,500 units of housing; 4.4 million square feet of clinical, office and other commercial space; 419,000 square feet of retail; and over 40 acres of landscaped open space. Of those 6,500 units of housing,... Read More »

With the fix of San Francisco’s fractured Salesforce Transit Center on track to be completed by the end of next month, we turn our attention to a full accounting of all leasing activity – and the master timeline – for the center’s thirty-six (36) potential retail, restaurant and commercial... Read More »

Having ended 2018 at a record high, driven in part by the delivery of a record 3.7 million square feet of shiny new space over the past year, all of which was delivered pre-leased, the average asking rent for office space in San Francisco ticked up another 2.2 percent... Read More »

While opposed by a number of neighborhood factions, two new buildings could rise up to 78 feet in height upon the Mission District parking lot parcels across from the Armory on 14th Street. As designed by BAR Architects for Manouch Moshayedi/MX3 Ventures, a seven-story building on the southern parcel... Read More »

Up-zoned for development up to 200 feet in height, assuming the adoption of San Francisco’s Central SoMa Plan is upheld, detailed plans for redeveloping the nearly one acre parcel at 490 Brannan Street, at the corner of Fourth and upon which a Wells Fargo, Starbucks and 116-space parking lot... Read More »

As we first reported back in 2017: It’s now been over two years since Related California 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, a reduction that rendered the space too... Read More »

As we first reported in December of 2017, Tishman Speyer was pushing forward with their plans for two modern towers to rise up to 420 feet in height on the northeast corner of 4th and Townsend, stretching across seven Central SoMa parcels, including those currently occupied by The Creamery,... Read More »

As we first reported last year, Lucca Ravioli’s detached parking lot parcel at 1120 Valencia Street was on the market in the Mission and has since sold to a developer with plans for a five-story development to rise on its mid-block site. As we noted at the time, “yes,... Read More »

While San Francisco is now engaged in a legal battle over its recently approved, and rather significant, plan for reshaping and densifying the San Francisco’s downtown-adjacent district known as Central SoMa, the City of Oakland has just released the “preliminary draft” of its Downtown Oakland Specific Plan (DOSP), a... Read More »

Driven in part by the delivery of a record 3.7 million square feet of shiny new office space over the past year, all of which was delivered pre-leased, the average asking rent for office space in San Francisco ticked up 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 to... Read More »