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Dogpatch Development on the Boards

Dogpatch Development on the Boards

Plans to raze the old Cresco equipment rental warehouse and equipment yard at 700 Indiana Street, between the Avalon Dogpatch dog park and the Dogpatch Arts Plaza, across from Esprit Park, are in the works. And as proposed, a three-story building would rise up to 49 feet in height... Read More »

Re-Revised Plans for Club Zone Project Closer to Reality

Re-Revised Plans for Club Zone Project Closer to Reality

As we outlined last year: While permits for a five-story, 19-unit residential building to rise up to 55 feet in height upon the Western SoMa site at 33 Norfolk, a merged parcel which abuts the rear property lines of a couple of 11th Street clubs, were approved and issued... Read More »

Hayes Valley Penthouse Listed for $500K Less

Hayes Valley Penthouse Listed for $500K Less

Positioned as part of “The Penthouse Collection at 8 Octavia,” the modern two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit PH-2 atop the Hayes Valley development sold for $1.5 million or roughly $1,500 per square foot in February of 2020. The unit is outfitted with floor to ceiling windows, air conditioning, high-end appliances, exposed... Read More »

Pac Heights Perfection Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Pac Heights Perfection Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Purchased for $1.785 million in May of 2016, the two-bedroom, townhome-style condo #B at 1902 Lyon Street, “perfectly situated on a tree lined street in Pacific Heights,” returned to the market listed for $1.895 million this past September, a sale at which would have represented total appreciation of just... Read More »

Beaux Arts Beauty Finally Fetches $2,100 per Square Foot

Beaux Arts Beauty Finally Fetches $2,100 per Square Foot

Completely overhauled in the late 90’s by Andrew Skurman and Suzanne Tucker, which landed the full-floor unit #3 in the Beaux Arts building at 1001 California Street a spread in Architectural Digest back in 1999, the 3,500-square-foot, two-bedroom condo quietly sold for $4.5 million in October of 2011 having... Read More »

Pipeline Development Slated to Rise in the Inner Richmond

Pipeline Development Slated to Rise in the Inner Richmond

As we noted in response to a reader’s query as to what’s actually in the pipeline for the Inner Richmond, a 7-story building is slated to rise on the shuttered Ashley and McMullen-Wing Sun Funeral Home site, on the northwest corner of Geary and 6th Avenue. As designed by... Read More »

Legacy Compound Site and Plans Nearing 50 Percent Off

Legacy Compound Site and Plans Nearing 50 Percent Off

As we outlined last year, the advertised “No Reserve” auction for the 140-acre “King Mountain Estate” site, an assemblage of six Marin parcels stretching from Kentfield to Larkspur, upon which a local rock god had planned to build a modern 19,000-square-foot home, quietly ended without an accepted offer and... Read More »

Plans to Build and Sell 57 New SRO Units, Take Two

Plans to Build and Sell 57 New SRO Units, Take Two

SIA’s plans for a skinny, nine-story building with 57 “single-room occupancy” (SRO) units to rise on the parking lot parcel at 1010 Mission Street, which stretches to Jessie, between 6th and 7th, have been slightly revised and re-submitted to the City for approval. The proposed 57 units, which are... Read More »

It’s Alive! Proposed Mid-Market Parking Lot Tower Take Two

It’s Alive! Proposed Mid-Market Parking Lot Tower Take Two

While the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed 27-story, 495-unit infill tower to rise on Nordstrom’s underdeveloped parking lot parcel at 469 Stevenson Street was certified by San Francisco’s Planning Commission in July of last year, the certification was subsequently appealed and overturned by San Francisco’s Board... Read More »

Foreshadowing Shrinkage for That Wall of Townhomes

Foreshadowing Shrinkage for That Wall of Townhomes

As we first reported earlier this year, plans for a wall of ten townhomes to rise on the 3,571-square-foot lot at 1151 Washington Street, adjacent to the Betty Ong Recreation Center’s playground, have been drawn. And as we outlined at the time, while the development would technically rise up... Read More »