The Growth of San Francisco’s Downtown
Of the record 67,800 residential units in the current pipeline of development across San Francisco, roughly 10,000 of the units, or 15 percent, fall within the boundaries of the city’s…
Designer $8.4 Million Home Suddenly Returns
As we wrote early last year: Designed by the owner-architect, Mary Maydan of Maydan Architecture, and built on a quarter-acre Palo Alto lot back in 2005, the still contemporary home…
Plans for Another Union Square Infill Hotel
Plans to level the two-story retail and Barbizon studio building at 420 Sutter Street, across from the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, are in the works. And as envisioned by Stanton…
Refined Design for Modern Infill Project as Envisioned
In the works since 2016, plans to level the two-story Auto Trust Services building at 255 Shipley Street and develop a modern four-story building upon its Western SoMa site could…
Downsized Plans for Towering Hotel Slated for Approval
As we first reported earlier this year: “While the preliminary plans for a 21-story hotel with 480 rooms to rise up to 200 feet in height across the Central SoMa…
Refined Plans and Timing for the Next Big Transbay District Park
The concept design for San Francisco’s future 2.4-acre Under Ramp Park, which will run from the south side of Folsom Street to Howard, between First and Second and predominantly under…
Former Egyptian Consulate in Contract
As we reported earlier this year: Designed by Bliss & Faville and built following the Great Quake of 1906, the nearly 14,000-square-foot Pacific Heights mansion at 3001 Pacific Avenue was…
New Timing for Major Visitacion Valley Redevelopment
Shuttered back in 1999, the old Schlage Lock factory and Southern Pacific Railyard parcel along Bayshore Boulevard, near the heart of Visitacion Valley, was leveled 10 years later in order…
Mission District Iglesia on the Market, Positioned for Development
Purchased by Monte Sinai Iglesia De Dios for $180,000 in 1995, the former 5,500-square-foot garage at 2859 22nd Street has served as the church’s home since it was converted circa…
Oakland Tower Newly Rendered, City Seeks Outstanding Design
As we first reported earlier this year: Plans for a pair of residential towers to rise up to 275 feet in height at 325 Seventh Street, on the edge of…