Eureka Valley Contemporized
A little over a year ago, 392-394 Eureka Street was purchased for $875,000 with a vacant lower unit, an upper unit occupied by long-time tenants, and a total of 2,856…
Waylaid By Two Downturns Downtown, Will There Be A Third?
First approved for development over a decade ago with plans for an 11-story hotel and restaurant to rise on the little downtown parking lot at 72 Ellis Street, the owners…
524 Howard Street: Tower Deets And Timing
As we first reported and summarized last month, while Crescent Heights is seeking approval to continue operating the little parking lot at 524 Howard Street which they acquired out of…
Designs For 333 Brannan And Millions For The Neighborhood
Kilroy Reality is moving forward with plans to demolish the two small industrial buildings and sixty-six space surface parking lot at the corner of Brannan and Stanford and build a…
The Living Wall And Public Art Within This Building’s Lobby
Under construction and nearing completion at the corner of First and Howard, the ten-story Foundry Square III will yield 275,000 square feet of “open collaborative” office space. A 100-foot long…
Designs For Two Dogpatch Buildings And A Decompression Plaza
Having quietly acquired the Dogpatch parcel upon which Café Cocomo currently stands, Build Inc. is moving forward with plans to build 120 new apartments and a cafe at 650 Indiana…
A Noe Valley Transformation: From Traditional To Tech
That’s the new kitchen at 824 Douglass Street above. As the room looked when the Noe home was purchased for $1,165,000 with a more traditional floor plan in 2010: The…
San Francisco Fountain Sculptor Ruth Asawa Has Died
Sculptor Ruth Asawa passed away last night at the age of 87. The survival of Asawa’s San Francisco Fountain, a fixture of the Grand Hyatt Plaza, had been threatened by…
Pacific Heights Penthouse Green
Listed for $6,500,000 in May and reduced to $5,995,000 in June, the three-bedroom penthouse atop the new three-unit “Jackson Place” development is in contract to be sold. Atop the two-level…
Strand Renovation Set For September Start, Reopening In 2015
With permits in place, ACT’s renovation of the old Strand Theater at 1127 Market Street is slated to get started this September, re-opening in January 2015. And as we first…