Boutique Union Square Infill Hotel Closer to Reality
Approved for development back in 2001 but then waylaid by the dotcom collapse, followed by a decline in tourism after 9/11 and then by “the collapse of the housing market…
Amazon Eliminates Bay Area from HQ2 Competition: The Final 20
Having received proposals from 238 suitors, including a Bay Area Council-led bid which combined Concord, Fremont, Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco, Amazon has just released its short-list of 20 cities…
San Francisco’s First Shake Shack Could Open Right Here
Speaking of big plans for shuttered Real Food Company sites in San Francisco, the owners of the former Cow Hollow location on the southeast corner of Fillmore and Filbert have…
Long-Shuttered Real Food Location Positioning to Reopen
As we first reported a few months ago: “The former Real Food building at 3939 24th Street, in the heart of Noe Valley, has been vacant since 2003 when the…
As Proposed
Bay Buildings
City Planning
Commercial
Design & Architecture
Neighborhoods
Remodeling and Renovation
Designs for a Galvanizing Development Have Been Drawn
As we first reported back in early 2016: Plans to gut the San Francisco Galvanizing Works building at 1176 Harrison Street are in the works. And as proposed, a second…
Beleaguered McDonald’s Expected to Be Leveled by July
As part of the purchase agreement for the beleaguered McDonald’s at the corner of Stayan and Haight Streets, the City of San Francisco will have 60 days to demolish, raze…
Timing for New 55-Story Tower and Podiums on Transbay Block 8
Having broken ground at the end of 2016, the 55-story tower and two podium buildings rising along Folsom Street, on Transbay Block 8 between Fremont and First, are now expected…
Plans to Limit Restaurants and Bars as Neighborhood Retail Falters
With the rise of online retail sales and services impacting the viability of brick and mortar retail in San Francisco, landlords are seeing an increase in demand for street-level spaces…
Approved Plans for a Supersized Safeway Scrapped
In the works for over a decade, the approved plans to completely overhaul and supersize the outdated Sunnyside Safeway at 625 Monterey Boulevard have been scrapped. Instead, the existing store…
Development Driving the Office Market in San Francisco
The average asking rent for office space in San Francisco inched up 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 to end the year at an all-time high of $71.02…