400-Foot Tower Dubbed “Jasper,” Leasing This Spring
The 400-foot tower rising at 45 Lansing has been dubbed “Jasper.” Originally intended to be developed as a 227-unit uberluxury condo building by Turnberry Associates, the project was redesigned by…
Rosewood Napa Valley?
The Hong Kong-based family which owns the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel, a favorite haunt of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and the cougars that hunt them, has been identified as the…
Game Changer: Polk Street “SRO” Going Upscale
The renovation of the former New Pacific Hotel at Polk and Eddy, a 66-room residential hotel, or “SRO,” which previously served the indigent and otherwise homeless, is nearing completion. And…
Payouts Of Up To $50K Per Eviction Proposed
While San Francisco’s previously adopted law which required landlords who invoke the Ellis Act to pay evicted tenants an upfront sum equal to the difference between their current rent and…
Listings For Over 6,000 Illegal Rentals In S.F. On Airbnb Alone
As of noon today, there are roughly 6,500 listings for illegal short-term rentals in San Francisco on Airbnb alone. For as of February 1, 2015, unless a residential unit in…
Plans for 76 Micro-Units and a Multi-Million Dollar Flip
As we first reported last August: The long-standing 10th Street Car Wash at the corner of Harrison and 10th which has occupied the Western SoMa site since 1969 is in…
Has A Million Really “Vanished” From The SoMa Community Fund?
According to the city, $925,666 appears to have “vanished” from the South of Market Community Stabilization Fund, money which was earmarked to fund improvements to local parks and pedestrian safety.…
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Little-Known Public Open Spaces Could Be Made Private
While not widely publicized, over 12,000 square feet of public open space was constructed in the form of two sunny terraces off the fourth and sixth floors of the 31-story…
Chinese Real Estate Giant Buys Site For Second-Tallest Tower In SF
Beijing-based Oceanwide Holdings has inked a deal to purchase the 50 First Street development site and plans for the second-tallest tower to rise over 900 feet in San Francisco for…
Legislation To Protect Clubs From Encroaching Condos
With noise complaints from residents in buildings that have recently risen or been converted in neighborhoods that were formerly commercial in character and have historically catered to clubs and other…