Airbnb Sues San Francisco
Arguing that its listings are protected by the First Amendment and a couple of Federal Communications Acts, regardless of whether or not said listings are for offerings which are illegal,…
The Rerefined Plans for Razing Home and 60 Rentals to Rise
The plans for razing the long-shuttered Home restaurant at the Corner of Market and Church and constructing a four to seven-story building on the 2100 Market Street site were approved…
The High-Tech Conversion of Saint Joseph’s Church Is Underway
The plans to rehab Saint Joseph’s Church at 1401 Howard Street, and convert the Western SoMa building into a high-tech office space, with a restaurant and 2,500-square-foot assembly hall in…
Bonus Height Fight Headed to the Ballot Box
With San Francisco’s proposed Affordable Housing Bonus Program, which would allow market-rate developers to build up to two stories higher than currently zoned in exchange for pricing 30 percent of…
New Timing and Details for That Twisty 400-Foot Tower Project
The Disposition and Development Agreement for Transbay Block 1, upon which Tishman Speyer is planning to build a twisty 400-foot-tall tower designed by Jeanne Gang at the corner of Folsom…
SoMa Rising Closer to Reality (or Not)
Approved for the development of a nine-story building, with 15 apartments and 88-feet in height, at the end of last year, the Western South of Market parking lot parcel at…
Purchased Last Year, Foreclosed upon This Week
Listed for “$800,000” early last year, or roughly $560 per square foot in an area where properties had been selling for around twice as much, it shouldn’t come as too…
Angling to Expand a Hayes Valley Development by 50 Percent
With the planning for a modern 26-unit building and beer hall to rise on the slender Central Freeway Parcel T, fronting Octavia Boulevard between Page and Rose, well underway, the…
Developer Looking to Cash Out Rather Than Build in Western SoMa
Approved for development last month and positioned for a quick start, Equity Community Builders’ Western SoMa parcel and plans for a four-story development, with 46 residential units over parking for…
Land for More BMR Units, But Later and Deeper in the Tenderloin
Rather than including 36 below market rate (BMR) units within the walls of its 304-unit development to rise at 1066 Market Street, or paying a $17.7 million in lieu of…