Building Out Mission Bay: The One Unknown
With Mission Bay Block 40 having been sold to Kilroy Realty with approved plans for an urban campus to rise on the site, the only remaining undeveloped parcels in Mission…
Urban Campus For Millennials To Rise In Mission Bay
Kilroy Realty has purchased the 3.1-acre Mission Bay Block 40 parcel which sits just south of 16th Street and east of Interstate 280 and will invest $450 million, including the…
Major Mid-Market Retail Development Set To Start Construction
First approved for development in 2010 but then lost to foreclosure in 2011, the mid-market retail development originally known as CityPlace but since dubbed “Market Street Place” will start construction…
Bill To Close Proposition 13 Loophole Passed By State Assembly
As the State Senate revived a bill to freeze speculative evictions in San Francisco, the State Assembly passed a bill designed to expand the definition of a “change of ownership”…
Google Rumor Put to Rest as Chocolatiers Buy Mission Building
Remember that Financial Times report that Google had quietly taken over an industrial building at 16th and Alabama and was planning to use the space to house a collection of…
Parties And Parking At Pier 27 Or A Loss Of Over $2M Per Year
The construction of San Francisco’s James R. Herman Cruise Ship Terminal at Pier 27 is scheduled to be finished in August and the Crown Princess is slated to be the…
Bet On Tech Pays Off Big As 225 Bush Sells For $350 Million
In 2012, Flynn Properties purchased a share in the former Standard Oil Building at 225 Bush Street that valued the building at $212 million. Flynn’s plan was to renovate and…
Union Square Art Gallery Owner Moving Into The Mission
Rowland Weinstein, owner of the Weinstein Gallery on Union Square, has closed escrow on his purchase of the 13,500 square foot building at 2548 Mission Street which is adjacent to…
Proposition 13 Pigs Have Grown Some Wings
Designed to protect long-term homeowners from a spike in property taxes as property values rise, California Proposition 13 freezes the tax assessed value of a property at its purchase price…
Mel’s Drive-In Development Drive-By
Plans to raze the Inner Richmond Mel’s Drive-In on Geary Boulevard were submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department last year. And as rendered above, a four-story building designed by Ian…