Plans to Restrict New Roof Decks in San Francisco
Building permits to add a new roof deck atop a single-family home or little residential building in San Francisco can currently be approved “over-the-counter,” without the need for a Residential…
Transbay Budget for Sinking Tower Litigation Nears $16 Million Mark
On the heels of the grand opening celebration for San Francisco’s new Transbay/Salesforce Transit Center two weeks ago, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) is about to seek board approval…
Lucca’s Mission District Parking Lot in Play
While Lucca Ravioli is expected to remain in business on the southwest corner of Valencia and 22nd Streets in the Mission, its detached parking lot parcel a few doors down…
New Timing and Affordability for Massive India Basin Development
With the projected timing to secure the necessary entitlements to move forward with Build Inc’s massive India Basin project – a proposed development which could now yield up to 1,575…
Downsized Plans for Towering Hotel Slated for Approval
As we first reported earlier this year: “While the preliminary plans for a 21-story hotel with 480 rooms to rise up to 200 feet in height across the Central SoMa…
Former Egyptian Consulate in Contract
As we reported earlier this year: Designed by Bliss & Faville and built following the Great Quake of 1906, the nearly 14,000-square-foot Pacific Heights mansion at 3001 Pacific Avenue was…
New Timing for Major Visitacion Valley Redevelopment
Shuttered back in 1999, the old Schlage Lock factory and Southern Pacific Railyard parcel along Bayshore Boulevard, near the heart of Visitacion Valley, was leveled 10 years later in order…
Mission District Iglesia on the Market, Positioned for Development
Purchased by Monte Sinai Iglesia De Dios for $180,000 in 1995, the former 5,500-square-foot garage at 2859 22nd Street has served as the church’s home since it was converted circa…
Oakland Tower Newly Rendered, City Seeks Outstanding Design
As we first reported earlier this year: Plans for a pair of residential towers to rise up to 275 feet in height at 325 Seventh Street, on the edge of…
Development Opposes New Development Next Door
The plans for a four-story building to rise on the southern end of the historic San Francisco Gas Light Company’s parcel in the Marina, where a former workshop addition flagged…