Grand Plans to Redevelop Historic Art Deco Garage Delayed
While plans for a six-story hotel to rise behind the historic Art Deco façade of the Central SoMa structure at 224 Townsend Street were drafted and formally proposed last year,…
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Supersized North Oakland Development Recommended for Approval
The refined designs for a 25-story tower to rise up to 260 feet in height at 532 Turquoise Street, across from the MacArthur BART Station in North Oakland, were presented…
Monster Home Site in Contract, Plans Approved
Purchased for $1.135 million in 2013, after which the grand plans for its Corona Heights parcel soon emerged, the former 1,500-square-foot home at 53 States Street was recently leveled. While…
Plans for a Modern 200-Foot-Tall Hotel and Condo Tower Revealed
The designs for a modern 200-foot-tall hotel and condo building to rise at 447 Battery Street, a site which is currently occupied by the three-story Cort Furniture Rental building at…
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Conversion of SoMa Development into Student Housing Proposed
Approved for a 200-unit development of micro-apartments to rise up to eight stories in height on the western edge of SoMa, between Folsom and Harrison, the development team behind the…
Plans for Infilling Pacific Heights
Plans for an infill building to rise up to four stories in height on the parking lot parcel between the John F. Kennedy Towers at 2451 Sacramento Street and the…
A Case Study in Mission District Development versus Displacement
With the controversial plan for preserving San Francisco’s Mission District one step closer to adoption, a real world example of development versus potential displacement, and existing rent-controlled versus new market-rate…
Punk Rocker’s Noe Valley Pad on the Market for $3.6 Million
It’s probably not the pad you envisioned for a punk rocker, but the Noe Valley home at 665 29th Street, which is owned by Eric Melvin, the lead guitarist for…
The Art to Adorn Van Ness
The construction of the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project that’s now underway includes a public art component which the Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo has been commissioned to fulfill.…
Contractor Caught Demolishing a Historic Facade
Purchased by a local contractor for $1.282 million in March of 2012, plans to allow the construction of a new garage, a new entry stair and “minor façade alterations” to…