Planning Pans Plans for Underground Sleeping Rooms
As we first outlined a few months ago, plans for a modern SRO building to rise up to 86 feet in height on the southeast corner of South Van Ness…
800-Foot-Tall Tower Slated for Planning’s Approval
San Francisco’s Planning Commission is slated to approve the refined plans for a 61-story tower to rise up to 800 feet in height at 542-550 Howard Street (a.k.a. Transbay Parcel…
Revised Plans for Grubstake Site Closer to Reality
As we first reported back in 2015: Prior to closing escrow on his purchase of the iconic Grubstake restaurant at 1525 Pine Street, buyer Nicholas Pigott quietly engaged D-Scheme Studio…
Sophisticated Second Street Condo Trades for a 2013-era Price
Purchased for $2.299 million in the first quarter of 2013, the “sophisticated” South Beach condo #502 at 750 Second Street, a boutique, LEED Gold Certified 14-unit building “in the immediate…
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Commissioners Grant Forgiveness for Reimagined $9.4M Home
Following seven months of debate, proffers and delay, San Francisco’s Planning Commission has rejected the requested Discretionary Review (DR) that would have required a redevelopment of the under-permitted designer home…
Bigger Plans for Polk Gulch Infill Development Closer to Reality
As we first revealed earlier this year: Plans for a 12-story infill building to rise up to 125 feet in height on the site of the Polk Gulch funeral home…
More Mission District Infill on the Boards
Plans for a new six-story building to rise at 2955 Mission Street, which is one door down from the proposed modern addition to rise atop the historic building at 2965-2967…
Bonus-Sized Bayview Development Closer to Reality
As we first reported earlier this year: Having sat vacant since the former meat market on the site was demolished three decades ago, plans to develop the Bayview parcel at…
Sunnyside (Back) Up
It has been over twelve years since the single-family home at 149 Mangels Avenue, the foundation of which had been reinforced with cereal boxes, collapsed on its new owner who…
Bigger Plans for Shuttered North Beach Site
Shuttered in 2012, plans to raze and redevelop the former Caesar’s Restaurant parcel on the southwest corner of Bay and Powell were approved at the end of 2015 with the…