Parklet Or Piglet?
While many complain of Planning being too heavy-handed with respect to architecture and design in San Francisco, the parklet outside The Dancing Pig at 544 Castro has at least one…
Plans For Pier 19 To Become A Chinese Business Outpost
With China Development Bank (CDB) nearing a deal to provide the capital to kick-start the development of Hunters Point and Treasure Island, China’s Vantone Holdings Co. is now in early…
With Crushpad Crushed, A Climbing Gym Is Planned Along Third
With Crushpad having been crushed and its assets auctioned off earlier this week, the industrial space in which the company was founded in 2004 is in front of San Francisco’s…
San Francisco Office Outlook: Vacancy Rates, Rents And New Supply
According to Colliers International’s mid-year report, office leasing in San Francisco totaled 4.5 million square feet in the first half of 2012, over 4 million for the first time since…
The State Of San Francisco’s Downtown: Property, People And Parking
A few highlights from the Planning Department’s latest Monitoring Report for San Francisco’s Downtown which will be presented to the Planning Commission this week: Downtown vacancy rates in San Francisco…
Bi-Rite Grocery (And Creamery!) In NoPa: Hours, Loading And Vote
With the store still under construction and an opening now expected in “the early part of 2013,” on Thursday San Francisco’s Planning Commission is expected to authorize and clear the…
Upward Ho Atop 100 California
The construction of a six-story vertical addition atop the 13-story office building at 100 California Street is another approved project that was waylaid by “weakness in the real estate market…
Fresh Groceries In The Tenderloin Stymied By Poor Fiscal Conditions
Approved for development in 2009 but stymied by “the continuing poor fiscal conditions of local, State, and Federal government, and the associated difficulties in securing financing for an affordable housing…
Double-D’s On Market Street 2.0: Dolby Making The Move
Currently headquartered at 100 Potrero Avenue, Dolby Laboratories is in contract to purchase the 385,000 square foot building at 1275 Market Street (across Ninth Street from Market Square) with plans…
Hoop(er) It Up
With 12,826 square feet of production, distribution, and repair (PDR) in the works at the corner of 8th and 16th Streets, another developer is quietly testing the waters to build…