Behind Salesforce’s San Francisco Campus Debacle
A few days before Salesforce.com was poised to receive the City’s approval, Salesfoce pulled the plug on their plans for a 14-acre campus in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. From Reuters…
Yelp Inks An Eight Year Lease For One-Third Of 140 New Montgomery
Yelp has inked an eight year lease for 100,000 square feet of the 295,000 square foot Pacific Telephone Building at 140 New Montgomery which is currently undergoing a major renovation…
In The Land of Rising Sea Green Rents
Built in 1915 for the Rainier Brewing Company, the “Hamm’s Building” at 1550 Bryant operated as a brewery from 1915 to 1975. Vacant from 1975 to 1985, the 182,669 square…
The Plan To Transform San Francisco’s Transit Center District
First drafted in 2009, the Planning Department’s Transit Center District Plan for the area bounded by Market, Steuart, Folsom, and mid-block between 3rd and New Montgomery is making the Planning…
The San Francisco Bay Guardian Sells (Out?)
Union Property Capital (UPC) is in contract is to purchase the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Potrero Hill headquarters building at 135 Mississippi for $6.5 million. Guardian owner Bruce Brugmann purchased…
La Boulange On 9th Avenue Unanimously Approved
As a plugged-in reader reports, San Francisco’s Planning Commission has approved the Conditional Use Authorization necessary for La Boulange to open its 13th San Francisco café and bakery within the…
Free The Toasters! (AKA Rationalizing Restaurant And Bar Controls)
Speaking of Neighborhood Commercial District controls, yesterday San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a simplification of San Francisco’s Planning Code and permitting process which currently defines 13 different eating…
Formulating Controls To Chase Financial Services Away
There are 39 Districts within San Francisco in which Formula Retail controls which limit or prohibit formula retail apply, controls “adopted to maintain the unique visual character of the City’s…
The 280 Seventh Street Scoop (And Evolving Neighborhood Editorial)
A little while back the owners and operators of the Café in the Castro purchased the Rawhide II club building at 280 Seventh Street, once “the largest and…only Country Western…
Average San Francisco Office Rent Up 6.8 Percent Over The Past Year
According to real estate research firm Reis Inc. by way of Bloomberg: “San Francisco’s average office rent rose 6.8 percent during the past year. A slow recovery in financial services…