Extra! Extra! Read All About It…Extra Fees To Develop Downtown
“Developers who construct skyscrapers and other buildings near the new Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco will have to pay up to $850 million in extra fees over a 20-year…
Signature Cuts At Candlestick But Continues Townhouse Build Out
From the San Francisco Business Times: In a rare glimmer of optimism in the still-troubled new home construction industry, Signature Properties CEO Mike Ghielmetti has directed his contractor to pull…
Bank Owned And Back On The Market On The South Slope Of Bernal
Purchased for $510,000 in September 2005 and then flipped five months later for $631,000 (“Buy, sell, repeat, retire!”), 622 Gates Street was taken back by the bank in September 2008.…
Call It Yet Another “Anecdote” (Or Data Point), It’s Down From 2004
As we wrote in February: Purchased for $2,000,000 in June of 2004, 2203 Broderick in the heart of Pacific Heights returned to the market with a remodeled bath in October…
JustQuotes: Five Years From A 49ers Free San Francisco?
“Santa Clara officials are expected to finalize a proposal with the San Francisco 49ers as early as today to build a 68,500-seat stadium in the South Bay city, in part…
113 New Apartments at 430 Main/429 Beale Approved By Planning
A plugged-in tipster reports on last night’s Planning Commission meeting: “Looks like 430 Main / 429 Beale was approved last night with a 6-1 vote. The one in opposition, of…
The World Market Is Flat!
Earlier this week a sale pair for a Noe Valley condo was submitted by a reader for consideration as an “apple.” And while the pair passed our basic test (no…
The Wrecking Ball Is Rolling Out In Visitacion Valley
An update on the former Schlage Lock Factory demolition and Visitacion Valley redevelopment by way of a plugged-in tipster: The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last month to support the…
Perhaps A Photoshopping Tax Could Fill Our Undergrounding Coffers
A week ago an offshoot of our discussion of 465 Hoffman turned to the undergrounding of utilities in San Francisco. Some new numbers from the Examiner today: The cost of…
Drawings And Details For The Proposed Development Of 2001 Market
The website for 2001 Market Street has filled out with drawings and details for a proposed mixed-use development to replace the shuttered S&C Ford dealership on Market at Dolores and…