RADical Oakland Tower Redesigned
Facing pushback with respect to the lack of a pronounced step back along 15th Street, which was seen as being inconsistent with “the lower height context of the buildings within…
SF Employment Dropped in First Half of 2017, First Time since 2009
With no growth in the number of people living in San Francisco with a job last month (542,100), despite an increase in the labor force by 2,800 to 559,800, the…
Fire Consumes Major Development near Oakland’s Auto Row
A fire has consumed Wood Partners’ 193-unit development under construction at 2302 Valdez Street, one of the largest projects in the works or anticipated to rise within Oakland’s Broadway Valdez…
8,000-Square-Foot Guest House on the Market for $13.5 Million
Built as a guest house for the founder of 24 Hours Fitness, who owns the larger 13,757-square-foot home next door, the 8,064-square-foot pad at 3941 Happy Valley Road is now…
Proposed 18-Story Oakland Hotel Closer to Reality
The plans for a proposed 18-story Marriott hotel (with 276 rooms over 1,600 square feet of ground floor retail space and a parking garage for 95 cars) to rise up…
Tower to Rise over Historic Building Raises Concerns
As we first reported earlier this year, Ellis Partners is planning to abandon the previously approved plans for a 20-story tower to rise adjacent to the historic Key System Building…
Steph and Ayesha Curry’s East Bay Pad Officially Listed at a Loss
The East Bay pad that Steph and Ayesha Curry purchased for $3.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, after which another $400K was spent to remodel the kitchen (which…
Design for Second Brooklyn Basin Building Revealed
With plans for the first building of the massive Brooklyn Basin project (a 64-acre East Bay development which will yield up to 3,100 units of housing, 200,000 square feet of…
Bay Area Home Sales (Mostly) Rebounded in May
Having dropped a downwardly revised 13.0 percent in April, the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco rebounded 17.2 percent to 560 in May, which…
Chef Pushing Forward with Plans for Former Oakland Fire Station
An Oakland-based chef and restaurateur is close to closing escrow on the purchase of the former City of Oakland Fire Station No. 14 at 3455 Champion Street, around the corner…