Net Absorption of Office Space in San Francisco Has Dropped
Having slipped a nominal $0.11 per square foot (0.1 percent) in the first quarter of 2017, the average asking rent for office space in San Francisco inched up $0.50 per…
Union Street Vacancy Count and Restaurant on the Ropes
While no official announcement has been made, the restaurant and bar space at 1838 Union Street, which has been home to Ottimista Enoteca-Café since 2005, is being quietly being offered…
Proposed 18-Story Oakland Hotel Closer to Reality
The plans for a proposed 18-story Marriott hotel (with 276 rooms over 1,600 square feet of ground floor retail space and a parking garage for 95 cars) to rise up…
Chef Pushing Forward with Plans for Former Oakland Fire Station
An Oakland-based chef and restaurateur is close to closing escrow on the purchase of the former City of Oakland Fire Station No. 14 at 3455 Champion Street, around the corner…
Expansion of Sprawling City Center Complex Slated for Approval
With Target breathing new life into the sprawling 6.6-acre City Center complex at the intersection of Geary and Masonic, plans to add another 33,000 square feet of retail space have…
Purple Building’s Days are Numbered, Tech Space to Rise
As we wrote last year: Plans to raze the purple building at 340 11th Street, a former metal shop in the middle of San Francisco’s 11th Street Club Corridor, and…
The New Old Jerusalem
The plans to develop a new six-story building on the Mission District parcel at 2976 Mission Street, plans which would require demolishing the existing two-story building on the site, do…
Plans for More Public Parking in Central SoMa, at Least for Now
Emphasizing that the one of the specific objectives of San Francisco’s pending Central SoMa plan “is to encourage mode shift away from private automobile use,” San Francisco’s Planning Department isn’t…
Fort Point Beer Company Planning an Outpost in the Mission
Plans to shutter (a portion of) the Timbuk2 warehouse and workshop building at 2394 Folsom Street are in the works. And as proposed, the Mission District trade shop space at…
Plans for Boutique Union Square Hotel Back in Play
Originally approved for development 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…