Potential Fix to Right the Sinking 58-Story Millennium Tower Identified
A potential solution to right the sinking Millennium Tower, which has now settled a total of 17 inches with lean of nearly 14 inches as measured from its roof, has…
Pricing Index for New Condos in San Francisco Hits a 3-Year Low
While sales activity for new condos in San Francisco dropped 27 percent from May to June with the start of a typical summer slowdown in play, the number of purchase…
Controls to Limit Legal Grow Houses in S.F. to Be Extended
New laws are being made across the world as people look more favorably at marijuana and cannabis. A lot of countries, like Italy, have decriminalized marijuana and the industry is…
Developer Spikes Plans for Massive Inner Sunset Project
While the development team had been planning to break ground on the massive 445-unit Kirkham Heights project next year and the Environmental Review for what would have been the largest…
Prominent Market and Castro Street Site Back in Play
While approved for the construction of a six-story building, with 24 residential units over 3,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and a 14-car garage back in 2013, a…
Net Absorption of Office Space in San Francisco Has Dropped
Having slipped a nominal $0.11 per square foot (0.1 percent) in the first quarter of 2017, the average asking rent for office space in San Francisco inched up $0.50 per…
Salesforce Secures Rights to Transbay Transit Center and Park
Having already secured the naming rights to the tallest tower in San Francisco, Salesforce is on the verge of securing the naming rights to the adjacent Transbay Transit Center, Grand…
Development to Rise on Navigation Center Site Even Closer to Reality
The proposed development of 157 below market rate apartments to rise up to nine stories in height at 1950 Mission Street, upon the former Phoenix Continuation High School site turned…
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Redwoods, Sculpture and Funicular Ousted from Plaza Plans
The approved plans for the future half-acre Mission Plaza at the base of the Transbay/Salesforce Tower feature a grove of 20 redwood trees, a 41-foot-tall sculpture assembled from concrete blocks…
Plans for 520-Foot Tower at Van Ness and Market Have Been Drawn
Lendlease Development has drafted their preliminary plans for a 520-foot-tall tower to rise at 30 Van Ness Avenue. And while previous plans for the Hub District parcel had envisioned razing…