Hearing Set for Proposed SoMa Hotel, What Would Dirty Harry Say?
With the lease for the SoMa McDonald’s at Third and Townsend expiring in January 2017, San Francisco’s Planning Commission is now slated to approve the plans for an eleven-story hotel…
Plans for Golden Gate Avenue Project Move Forward, Retail Added
Plans to raze the former Stars/Trader Vic’s/Maestro building turned Empire Room at 555 Golden Gate Avenue and construct an eleven-story building on the site are moving forward. As proposed by…
Port to Conference behind Closed Doors Re: Teatro ZinZanni
Facing some pushback from Planning over Teatro ZinZanni’s proposed placement of their historic Spiegeltent between the Port of San Francisco’s Seawall Lots 323 and 324, positioned atop the Vallejo Street…
Hearing for Grocery Outlet’s Bid to Restock Shuttered Mission Store
The public hearing which could clear the way for Grocery Outlet to finally restock the former DeLano’s Market at 1245 South Van Ness Avenue has been scheduled for April 28.…
New Home for Noriega Produce and Condos Closer to Reality
As we first reported early last year, plans to raze Pete’s Union 76 Service station on the southwest corner of Noriega and 44th Avenue and build a four-story building with…
Refined Designs and Timing for Uber’s New HQ and Open Space
With the anticipated groundbreaking having been pushed back, SHoP Architects has refined the designs for Uber’s two worldwide headquarters buildings to rise up to eleven stories in Mission Bay, upon…
Planning Pans Teatro ZinZanni’s Waterfront Plan
While San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has granted Teatro ZinZanni and its financial partner, Kenwood Investments, the exclusive right to negotiate with the Port of San Francisco to develop Seawall…
Waylaid Oakland Tower Project Back on Track, Retail Added
Back in the year 2000, the plans for the Oakland City Center Project, a 2.2 million square foot development of four Downtown blocks between 11th and 14th Streets, were preliminary…
Refined Plans for a Grand Six-Story Urban Room
The refined plans for a six-story “urban room” at the base of the proposed Oceanwide Center, which includes a pair of towers which would rise up to 910 feet in…
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,…