Designs for a Slice of This SoMa Gas Station Site Have Been Drawn
With the lease for the Shell station on the corner of Fifth and Folsom expiring early next year, plans for a slender eight-story building to rise on the western quarter…
Plans to Raze Iconic TL Shop for Affordable Apartments to Rise
Plans to level the long-standing tire and auto shop building at Turk and Larkin in the Tenderloin, which Kahn & Keville has occupied since it was built in 1935, have…
Big Bay Views for $2.8 Million in Sausalito, but sans Terra Firma
Speaking of floating homes and Sausalito, the 1,838-square-foot houseboat docked at 59 Issaquah Dock, off Gate 6 Road in Waldo Point Harbor, is now on the market and aggressively priced…
Mission District Murals Inventoried for Preservation Review
Working with San Francisco Architectural Heritage and Precita Eyes, a Planning Department summer intern has created an inventory and historical index for the murals that adorn San Francisco’s Mission District,…
Coalition Challenges Redevelopment of a Chinatown Block
While the “W12” project site, which includes the entire Oakland block bound by Webster, 11th, Harrison and 12th Streets, along with the quarter-block parcel on the northwest corner of Harrison…
Plans for a Modern Burger Shack to Serve Bayview’s Mendell Plaza
The vacant 700-square-foot shack at 4801 Third Street was built on what was to become Bayview’s Mendell Plaza back in 1974. Muraled a few years ago in conjunction with a…
The New Plans for 300 Grant (Take Three)
Eight years ago, plans to raze the three-story corner building at 300 Grant Avenue and construct a new ten-story building, with 45 condos over two floors of retail and parking…
Affordable Mission Bay Development about to Break Ground
The ground lease and construction loan agreement for the the mixed-use development to rise at 1300 Fourth Street (a.k.a. Mission Bay Block 6 East), with 142 affordable apartments and a…
Architects of Skinny Bayview Infill Building Get Creative
Responding to neighborhood concern that fewer off-street parking spaces won’t discourage car ownership but rather increase competition for on-street spaces and congestion, while also addressing concerns that backing cars out…
A $2.5 Million Price Cut for that Stately Pacific Heights Compound
With the asking price for the remodeled view-home next door having been reduced by $2 million (13 percent) last month, the asking price for the “Stately Pacific Heights Compound” at…