Let There Be Housing, Parking Be Damned
Speaking of redeveloping a (one-time) church, a public hearing to review the plans for converting the Spanish Colonial Oakland church and school at 1638 47th Avenue into 60 apartments will…
Gold Coast Home Sells For $594 Per Square Foot, In Alameda
As we wrote when the four-bedroom home at 1208 Saint Charles Street in Alameda’s Gold Coast neighborhood hit the market earlier this year, we’d be willing to bet this isn’t…
Average Asking Rent For A Studio In San Francisco: Nearly $3K
The average asking rent for an apartment in a building with at least 50 units in San Francisco ticked up to a record $3,623 per month in the third quarter…
Comments, Responses And Key Vote For The Warriors Arena
Over twenty-five hundred pages of public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Golden State Warriors’ proposed Mission Bay Arena Project, and the City’s responses, have just been…
Designs For More Parking In Berkeley, Not Less
If approved this week, the five-story, 440-space Center Street Parking Garage at 2025 Center Street in Downtown Berkeley, which is owned by the City, will be razed and an eight-story,…
Another Two Years For Oakland Development Sought
The plans for a seven-story building to rise on southeast corner of Telegraph Avenue and 26th Street in Oakland’s KoreaTown, with 97 condos over nearly 9,000 square feet of retail…
San Francisco Employment Slips, East Bay Gains
The number of people living in San Francisco with a job slipped by 700 from August to September and now totals a revised 535,700 with an unemployment rate of 3.2…
Achtung! $265K Price Cut For East Bay Modern Masterpiece
Listed for $2.5 million three weeks ago, the asking price for the four-bedroom modern masterpiece hidden behind a custom gate at 256 The Uplands in Claremont has been reduced $265,000…
18-Story Berkeley Building Slated For Approval This Week
It has been nearly three years since the plans for an 18-story building with over 300 apartments, a new multi-screen cinema, and multiple restaurant and retail spaces to rise at…
Uber Paid $123.5 Million For Uptown Oakland HQ
According to Alameda County records, Uber paid $123.5 million to acquire its future East Bay headquarters in Oakland’s Uptown. At 380,000 square feet, that’s $325 per square foot and exactly…