Transbay Terminal Design Update: And Then There Were Three
The Foster + Partners team was dropped and the Calatrava team dropped out (last month), and so the design competition for San Francisco’s new Transbay Terminal and Tower is down…
JustQuotes: Highrise Housing (And More) For Candlestick Point
“Top Vision has hired architect C.P. Wang of the renowned C.Y. Lee & Partners — the firm that designed Taipei 101, the world’s tallest fully inhabited skyscraper — to design…
Why You Should Care About All Those New Developments (Part II)
From a single anecdote of a family considering selling their single family home in Noe Valley in order to move into a condominium in South Mission Bay, to a second.…
JustQuotes: A New Vision For A Hunters Point Neighborhood
“In a joint venture with partners Devine & Gong and Ridgepoint Non-Profit Housing Corp., Stewart and his team are proposing to raise $300 million to demolish a 267-unit public housing…
San Francisco Seawall Lot Rezoning Public Forum (5/14/07)
The Port, along with Telegraph Hill Dwellers and Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association, will be co-sponsoring a public forum to review proposed State legislation relating to lifting public trust land use…
Ask (Nicely) And Ye Shall Receive: Cathedral Hill Tower Renderings
J.K. Dineen at the San Francisco Business Times delves deeper into the proposed Cathedral Hill tower to rise at 1481 Post Street and uncovers some coveted renderings.
Seven Hundred Fewer Condos In The San Francisco Pipeline
Speaking of supply and demand, over the past month at least 700 potential condominiums have been pulled from the San Francisco housing pipeline (and our Complete Inventory Index). The dead…
SOM Design And Details For 300 Condominiums On A Hill
The Skidmore, Owings and Merrill design for a proposed 38-story and 300 unit condominium development across from St. Mary’s Cathedral has been unveiled (7.4MB pdf). The glass-walled oval tower would…
Mint Plaza: Approved, Moving Forward, And Coming Soon
As we wrote five months ago: “If all goes as proposed, the ‘290-by 54-foot-wide portion of Jessie Street extending between 5th Street and Mint Street’ (off Mission) will be transformed…
Not So Fast (And Did We Say Fickle?)
We report 898 Francisco is on the market, the Wall Street Journal reports it’s off, and now we report…it’s back on! Commission dispute? Publicity stunt? Actual celebrity fickleness? Who knows…