Rolling Out The Rolls To Move A Mansion By The End Of The Year
Positioned as “a glamorous and fun incentive” for agents to move the Herbst Manor over the next couple of weeks, a plugged-in tipster reports that a restored 1962 Rolls Royce…
Collapsed Home Was Being “Remodeled” By Prominent Developer
The Twin Peaks house at 125 Crown Terrace which partially collapsed last night and slid down the hill toward Graystone Terrace is owned by Mel Murphy, the prominent and well-connected…
Transbay Block 8 Attracts Who’s Who Of Developers And Architects
The City of San Francisco cancelled their initial request for proposals to develop Transbay Block 8 back in 2009 when bids for the one-acre parcel fronting Folsom between First and…
A Rather Extensive “Remodeling” (Of Everything But The Façade)
While the façade of 2178 Pine Street hangs like a Hollywood set with nothing left behind, technically the potential historic resource hasn’t been demolished but is rather being “remodeled,” with…
A Rush To Restrict Ellis Act Evictions And Buyouts In San Francisco
Reacting to the recent rise in Ellis Act evictions of rent controlled tenants in San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Campos are in a race to draft proposed…
Six Designs For A Zero Net Energy Building In San Francisco
This year’s Architecture at Zero competition, co-sponsored by PG&E and the American Institute of Architects San Francisco in collaboration with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, was to create a zero…
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The Fate Of The 8 Washington Street Site: What Happens Now?
With voters in San Francisco having overturned the approved plans and increased height for the development of the 8 Washington Street site above and some bad information making the rounds,…
Is San Francisco Getting The Short End Of The Saitowitz Stick?
With the Stanley Saitowitz designed “Garden Village”, a 77-unit development of 18 interconnected buildings of three to five stories in height with 16 rooftop farm plots above and a fleet…
Governor Brown Vetos Affordable Housing Bill 1229
Passed in California’s State Assembly last month, Assembly Bill (AB) 1229 was written to expressly authorize any county or city in California to include inclusionary housing requirements (a.k.a. Below Market…
Shutdown Slowdown For Mortgage Approvals
With only 67 of the FHA’s 2,972 workers working through the current government shutdown, and fewer federal workers to verify Social Security numbers and provide Internal Revenue Service tax records,…