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Fully-Approved Polk Street Project Put Up for Sale

Fully-Approved Polk Street Project Put Up for Sale

As we outlined last year, a building permit for the fully-entitled, 97-unit development to rise up to 80 feet in height on the Out of the Closet site on the southeast corner of Polk and California was about to be approved. And in fact, a building permit has not... Read More »

Bonus Plans for Lower Potrero Hill Parking Lot Closer to Reality

Bonus Plans for Lower Potrero Hill Parking Lot Closer to Reality

Plans for a 5-story, 48-unit apartment building to rise on the odd-shaped Regents Cab Company parking lot parcel at 98 Pennsylvania Avenue in Lower Potrero Hill were approved back in 2016 and building permits for the project were secured and issued in December of 2018, as we outlined a... Read More »

Supersized Western SoMa Infill Development on the Boards

Supersized Western SoMa Infill Development on the Boards

Acquired for $3.25 million last year, plans for a supersized 9-story building to rise on the Western SoMA parking lot parcel on the southwest corner of Folsom and 10th Street, adjacent to Sextant Coffee Roasters, have been drawn. While the corner parcel is currently only zoned for development up... Read More »

Bonus Plans for Mission District Development Closer to Reality

Bonus Plans for Mission District Development Closer to Reality

While originally envisioned as a four-story development that would rise up to 45 feet in height on the northwest corner of 26th and Shotwell and yield 22 apartments over 6,600 square feet of ground floor commercial space on the B&W Automotive Service Center site, a density bonus for the... Read More »

Entitlement for Van Ness Redevelopment Sought, But…

Entitlement for Van Ness Redevelopment Sought, But…

As we outlined last year, plans to redevelop the 5-story building on the northwest corner of Van Ness and Pacific Avenues were on the boards, plans which would have converted the building from a collective of office suites into 32 residential condos, with 4,250 square feet of ground floor... Read More »

Refined Plans for Modern Urban Village Closer to Reality

Refined Plans for Modern Urban Village Closer to Reality

As designed by PYATOK Architects for the Friendship House Association of American Indians, a modern six-story building dubbed the “Village SF” is proposed to rise up to 79 feet in height on the mostly vacant lot adjacent to the existing Friendship House building at 56 Julian Avenue in the... Read More »

Waylaid Mission District Development Back on the Boards

Waylaid Mission District Development Back on the Boards

Having been undermined by advocates back in 2016, Lennar’s approved plans for a 157-unit development to rise up to six stories in height at 1515 South Van Ness Avenue, on the shuttered McMillan Electric Company building and parking lot site, were appealed and waylaid. Subsequently acquired by the City... Read More »

Visualizing the Burgeoning Hub District Plan(s)

Visualizing the Burgeoning Hub District Plan(s)

As newly rendered by SOM along with the first two Hub District towers that have risen at 1580 Mission and 30 Otis and already yielded nearly 1,000 units of housing, the modified plans for the three towers to rise at 98 Franklin, One Oak and 10 South Van Ness... Read More »

More Height for Approved Tower sur la Table

More Height for Approved Tower sur la Table

A modification to the approved plans for the French American International School’s 365-foot-tall tower to rise on the parking lot parcel at 98 Franklin Street, at the intersection of Oak, is on the table. As newly proposed and rendered by SOM, with placeholders for One Oak and 10 South... Read More »

New Plans for Approved Swoopy Tower Site and Development

New Plans for Approved Swoopy Tower Site and Development

While the plans for two swoopy towers to rise up to 425 feet in height on the northeast corner of 4th and Townsend were approved back in 2019, the ground has yet to be broken, permitting is on hold and Tishman Speyer is now seeking approval for a new... Read More »