Resurrected Plans for a 13-Story Tenderloin Development to Rise
Approved for a 13-story building with 41 condos to rise up to 130 feet in height on the central Tenderloin site back in 2004, the subsequently condemned three-story office building…
The First Renderings for San Francisco’s Last Super-Tall Tower Site
Transbay Parcel F at 546 Howard Street was the last remaining development site in San Francisco zoned for building over 550 feet in height, a so-called “super-tall” site by the…
New Plans to End a Five-Year Battle over Building up in Nob Hill
The nearly five year fight over the proposed redevelopment of the two-story Nob Hill warehouse at 1469 Pacific Avenue will be continued for at least another couple of weeks. But…
The Grand Plan to Transform the Intersection of Market and Van Ness
In addition to potentially raising building height limits, allowing for more density, and setting the stage for a number of public realm improvements, such as new public open spaces and…
The Rerefined Plans for Razing Home and 60 Rentals to Rise
The plans for razing the long-shuttered Home restaurant at the Corner of Market and Church and constructing a four to seven-story building on the 2100 Market Street site were approved…
Waylaid Mission District Development Slated for Approval
The waylaid plans to raze the shuttered Western Plywood warehouse at Harrison and 22nd Streets and construct a wedge-shaped, four-story building on the Mission District site are slated to be…
Three Schemes for Hap’s Old Mission Haunt and a New Living Alley
With San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission having cleared the way for Loren ‘Hap’ Jones’ former motorcycle shop at 235 Valencia Street to be razed, the formal plans for the site…
A Historic Move to Infill Uptown Oakland
Plans for a five-story building to rise on the site of the two historic Cathedral District buildings at 570 and 600 21st Street in Uptown Oakland are in the works,…
The High-Tech Conversion of Saint Joseph’s Church Is Underway
The plans to rehab Saint Joseph’s Church at 1401 Howard Street, and convert the Western SoMa building into a high-tech office space, with a restaurant and 2,500-square-foot assembly hall in…
Bonus Height Fight Headed to the Ballot Box
With San Francisco’s proposed Affordable Housing Bonus Program, which would allow market-rate developers to build up to two stories higher than currently zoned in exchange for pricing 30 percent of…