Oakland Loft with Penthouse Addition Fetches $2.75 Million
We first featured (and gushed over) the 5,361-square-foot unit #405 atop the converted Phoenix Iron Works building, on the western edge of Oakland’s Jack London Square, back in early 2008…
Renovated Lake Merritt Lodge on the Market
Built for the YWCA as a “home-away-from-home for young working girls” in 1929, the Blue Triangle Club building at 2332 Harrison Street was sold by the “Y” in the late…
Bay Area Employment Slips from Record Highs
A refinement to the State of California’s analytics increased the estimated number of people living in San Francisco with a job to a record 557,800 at the end of 2017…
Bay Area Home Sales Drop, 9-Year Low in San Francisco
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 4,504 in January. And while the 33.7 percent drop in volume from December to…
Supersized Plans and Problems for this BART-Adjacent Project
While plans for a 417-unit development to rise up to 8 stories in height on the vacant 3-acre Caltrans lot bounded by Kirkham, 7th, Union and 5th Streets, a block…
Rent-Free Housing for Actors and Artists as Proposed
The underdeveloped downtown Berkeley site at 2009 Addison Street, upon which the former Collier Motor Sales building and garage sits, was purchased by the adjacent Berkeley Repertory Theater (BRT) back…
New Timing and Density for Oakland Tower Approved in 2015
While approved to rise up to 330 feet in height and yield 345 residential units back in 2015, the ground for the Uptown Oakland tower at 1900 Broadway has yet…
Bay Area Home Sales and Median Price Drop
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 6,825 in December, down 5.9 percent from a downwardly revised 7,250 sales in November…
Designs for a Destination Waterfront Hotel
With the proposed 326-unit building to rise up to eight stories in height on the Jack London Square parcel known as “F2” softly rendered in the background, the design for…
Plans for Proposed 423-Foot-Tall Uptown Oakland Tower Revealed
Plans to raze the three-story Community Bank of the Bay building at 1750 Broadway, between 17th and 19th Streets in Uptown Oakland, are in the works. And as proposed by…