Community Meeting Updates: Presidio Main Post And 55 Laguna
While the Presidio Trust’s last Main Post public meeting that was to be held this Thursday is being rescheduled (time and place TBD), a plugged-in tipster reports that AF Evans…
Entitled, Envisioned And For Sale (But Not Permitted): 1600 Market
The corner of Market at Franklin and Page as it looks (for the most part) above, the same corner (1600 Market) as envisioned by Stanley Saitowitz and as is being…
Two Years And Twenty Percent Down (Not Including The New Kitchen)
Two years ago 25 Mercedes Way was listed for $1,895,000 and sold for $2,200,000. Six months ago 25 Mercedes Way returned asking $2,099,000. And five days ago the sale of…
Which Is Destined to Age More Gracefully, Its Residents or Design?
The discussion of Arquitectonica’s proposed design for 1960-1998 Market Street somehow takes a turn toward the Institute on Aging’s new Senior Campus rising at 3575 Geary where the Coronet Theater…
Now THAT’s The (An) Arquitectonica Design For Market At Buchanan
We weren’t planning on publishing today, but a plugged-in tipster delivers the goods for the Arquitectonica design of 1960-1998 Market at Buchanan. Never mind those EIR massings (but not the…
A Step Forward For The Plans To Expand Fox Plaza (1390 Market)
A Preliminary Mitigated Negative Declaration has been issued by San Francisco’s Planning department for Archstone-Smith’s proposed expansion of Fox Plaza (1390 Market Street). The proposed project would entail demolition of…
Hunters Point Redevelopment Architecture To Mimic Mission Bay
The architectural stylings for the redevelopment of Hunters/Candlestick Point have been revealed. And based on the proposed designs for the “model” blocks, think Mission Bay: One of the blocks, on…
1470 Noe Closes For 100% Of Asking (But $25,000 Less Than In 2005)
It’s true, we missed it when the apples to apples sale of 1470 Noe recently closed escrow (hey, it happens). But luckily a reader calls us out (and we’d expect…
Out Of The Shadow And Into The Spotlight: 555 Washington Designs
The developers behind a proposed 38-story and 248-unit condo tower in the shadow of the Transamerica Pyramid are pushing forward. From the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the 555 Washington…
Let’s Build Something (On Bayshore) Together: Lowe’s Signs A Lease
Lowe’s has been circling the old Goodman Lumber Bayshore Boulevard site ever since Home Depot scuttled their plans to build a year ago last week. And now Lowe’s has signed…