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Visualizing the Burgeoning Hub District Plan(s)

Visualizing the Burgeoning Hub District Plan(s)

As newly rendered by SOM along with the first two Hub District towers that have risen at 1580 Mission and 30 Otis and already yielded nearly 1,000 units of housing, the modified plans for the three towers to rise at 98 Franklin, One Oak and 10 South Van Ness... Read More »

More Height for Approved Tower sur la Table

More Height for Approved Tower sur la Table

A modification to the approved plans for the French American International School’s 365-foot-tall tower to rise on the parking lot parcel at 98 Franklin Street, at the intersection of Oak, is on the table. As newly proposed and rendered by SOM, with placeholders for One Oak and 10 South... Read More »

New Plans for Approved Swoopy Tower Site and Development

New Plans for Approved Swoopy Tower Site and Development

While the plans for two swoopy towers to rise up to 425 feet in height on the northeast corner of 4th and Townsend were approved back in 2019, the ground has yet to be broken, permitting is on hold and Tishman Speyer is now seeking approval for a new... Read More »

Be Best for Over 20 Percent Less

Be Best for Over 20 Percent Less

Purchased for $3.295 million in June of 2016 and then rented out for what would appear to be around $8,000 per month, the two-bedroom, two-bath unit #34C in the Lumina tower at 338 Main Street, which is “considered San Francisco’s best condominium project,” according to its Compass agents, returned... Read More »

Dogpatch Development on the Boards

Dogpatch Development on the Boards

Plans to raze the old Cresco equipment rental warehouse and equipment yard at 700 Indiana Street, between the Avalon Dogpatch dog park and the Dogpatch Arts Plaza, across from Esprit Park, are in the works. And as proposed, a three-story building would rise up to 49 feet in height... Read More »

Re-Revised Plans for Club Zone Project Closer to Reality

Re-Revised Plans for Club Zone Project Closer to Reality

As we outlined last year: While permits for a five-story, 19-unit residential building to rise up to 55 feet in height upon the Western SoMa site at 33 Norfolk, a merged parcel which abuts the rear property lines of a couple of 11th Street clubs, were approved and issued... Read More »

Hayes Valley Penthouse Listed for $500K Less

Hayes Valley Penthouse Listed for $500K Less

Positioned as part of “The Penthouse Collection at 8 Octavia,” the modern two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit PH-2 atop the Hayes Valley development sold for $1.5 million or roughly $1,500 per square foot in February of 2020. The unit is outfitted with floor to ceiling windows, air conditioning, high-end appliances, exposed... Read More »

Pac Heights Perfection Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Pac Heights Perfection Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Purchased for $1.785 million in May of 2016, the two-bedroom, townhome-style condo #B at 1902 Lyon Street, “perfectly situated on a tree lined street in Pacific Heights,” returned to the market listed for $1.895 million this past September, a sale at which would have represented total appreciation of just... Read More »

Pipeline Development Slated to Rise in the Inner Richmond

Pipeline Development Slated to Rise in the Inner Richmond

As we noted in response to a reader’s query as to what’s actually in the pipeline for the Inner Richmond, a 7-story building is slated to rise on the shuttered Ashley and McMullen-Wing Sun Funeral Home site, on the northwest corner of Geary and 6th Avenue. As designed by... Read More »

Make That 2031, at the Earliest

Make That 2031, at the Earliest

Plans for over 100 condos to rise over a newly stacked garage on the prominent parking lot parcel on the southeast corner of Second and Howard were approved back in 2006 but the development was then waylaid by the Great Recession and the 19-story tower never broke ground. With... Read More »