Context for a Recent 25 Percent Over Asking Sale
We first took note of the well-designed unit #1 at 236 States Street back in 2008, a few years before it was marketed as a short-sale near the bottom of…
Major NoPa Redevelopment Slated for Approval
In the works since mid-2015, plans to level the Divisadero Touchless Carwash and Roy’s Shell station on the corner of Divisadero and Oak and develop a six-story building upon the…
Another Mission District Addition on the Boards
Technically zoned for Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) uses, special permission for Gus’s Community Market to open on the corner of Harrison and 17th Street, on the first floor of…
Plans for a Skinny 300-Foot-Tall Tower to Rise Right Here
As we first reported a little over two years ago: Built in 1922, the narrow two-story building at 570 Market Street, which also fronts Sutter Street and is currently home…
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Former Facebook COO Lists Palo Alto Home for $40M
Purchased by Owen Van Natta, the onetime Facebook COO and former executive at MySpace, Zynga and Amazon, for $9.0 million in June of 2011, the gated Palo Alto neo-Tudor which…
Plans for Building up in Hayes Valley Don’t Raise Any Red Flags
As we first reported earlier this year: The little four-unit building at 630 Octavia Street and its adjacent parcel, which is currently used as a parking lot, recently traded hands…
Refined Plans for an Important Berkeley Infill Site
The refined plans for a seven-story building to rise up to 75 feet in height upon the Berkeley Touchless Car Wash and gas station site at the intersection of Kittredge,…
Plans to Make Civic Center the Safest Place in San Francisco
Having drafted three initial frameworks to help gather public input and guide the redevelopment of San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, Fulton Mall and United Nations Plaza, the design team has…
Semi-Massive Redevelopment of CPMC Campus Closer to Reality
As we first revealed last year: With an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the formally proposed semi-massive redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street about…
Fix of San Francisco’s Fractured Transit Center Nearly Complete
The repair and remediation of the fractured beams that resulted in the emergency closure of San Francisco’s new Salesforce Transit Center has been completed ahead of schedule and all temporary…