Dogpatch Development Positioning to Break Ground sans BMRs
Entitled for development early last year, the building permits for the 109-unit project to rise up to seven stories in height at 2177 3rd Street have now been issued and…
Planning Seeks More Density for Development in Presidio Heights
As proposed, the redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street will yield 240 units of high-end housing – including 12 new single-family homes, 14 new…
Challenge of Elbo Room Redevelopment Slated to Fail
The building permits for the proposed three-story addition and residential conversion of the two-story Elbo Room building at 645-647 Valencia Street have been requested and triaged. And the formal challenge…
Pricing for New Condos in S.F. Slips along with Sales and Inventory
While sales activity for new condos in San Francisco doubled from April to May with seasonality in play, versus tripling from April to May last year, the number of purchase…
Plans for Redeveloping Balboa Reservoir Site Revealed
The final three plans for redeveloping the western 17 acres of the Balboa Reservoir site, which is currently a 1,000-space parking lot under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Public…
Eviction Law Amendments Could Hold Landlords More Accountable
San Francisco’s Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance allows landlords of rent-controlled units to legally evict their tenants without cause, if said eviction is intended to allow the landlord or landlord’s…
Plans for Boutique Union Square Hotel Back in Play
Originally approved for development in 2001 but then waylaid by the dotcom collapse, followed by a decline in tourism after 9/11, and then by “the collapse of the housing market…
Downsized Development Slated for Approval
Approved for a 10-story building with 32 condos over a ground floor commercial space and a 26-car garage to rise up 115 feet in height on the Polk Gulch site…
Coworking Space Could Be Shut Down, Others at Risk
Five years ago, the owners 414 Brannan Street sought permission to change the permitted use of the industrial building, which had once been home to an electrical contractor, to general…
New Condo Sales and Pricing Drop in San Francisco
While sales activity for new condos in San Francisco has typically ticked up from March to April, the number of purchase contracts signed last month (35) was 62 percent lower…