Redesigned To Blow You Away, But Hopefully Not Off A Balcony
As you might have guessed, it’s not only the ground floor of the proposed Transbay Block 5 office tower to rise on the northeast corner of Howard and Beale which…
New Plans For Transbay Block To Contribute To The Public Realm
The ground floor plan and lobby for the proposed 550-foot office tower to rise on Transbay Block 5 at the corner of Howard and Beale have been completely redesigned by…
Three Chains Angling For Castro Street Openings
Philz Coffee, Hamburger Mary’s and SoulCycle are all angling to land on Castro Street and the one hearing which could clear the way for all three to land on the…
New Designs And Timing For Big Mission Bay Hotel
The designs for the 250-room SoMa Mission Bay Hotel to rise on the northwest corner of Third and Channel Streets have been refined and the developer is now planning to…
Salesforce Paying $640 Million For 50 Fremont Street Tower
Considering that Salesforce.com signed an 18-year lease for over half the 817,000-square-foot building they currently occupy at 50 Fremont in 2012, a lease which includes the right to buy the…
Office Rents In S.F. Forecast To Climb, But Not As Fast As In Boston
With demand for office space in San Francisco at an all-time high and office rents having increased 15 percent over the past year and nearly doubling since the first quarter…
Commonwealth Club’s Embarcadero Plan Challenged
The Commonwealth Club’s proposed renovation and expansion of the vacant two-story building adjacent to the Audiffred Building (aka “Boulevard”) was only a few days away from being permitted when the…
Designs For Micro-Units And More Adjacent To City Beer Store
As we first reported last year, David Baker + Partners has been working on plans for 42 market-rate “micro-units” over ground-floor retail and a second floor of office space to…
Two Large Tech Companies Circling Oakland’s Sears Building
Without naming names, two “large technology companies” are reportedly in discussions to lease the entire Sears Building in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood which the department store vacated in September. The 400,000-square-foot…
City’s Budget For Mid-Market Office Building Jumps To $327 Million
The proposed budget for the City’s new Mid-Market office building to rise up 17-stories along 11th Street between Mission and Market, on the eastern half of the Goodwill site at…