When Up is Down: Apples-to-Apples in the Mission
As we outlined last month, the signature 1,886-square-foot end unit #203 in the three-unit building at 201-207 Guerrero Street, which was designed by Kennerly Architecture and built in 2004, features…
Plan to Save the Sinking Millennium Tower Approved
The refined plan to permanently stabilize and potentially right the sinking Millennium Tower, by adding a series of 52 new cast-in-place reinforced concrete piles around the tower’s perimeter, has been…
Revised Designs for Bonus-Sized Development in the Mission
As we outlined last year, the proposed redevelopment of the shuttered Mission District garage site at 1721 15th Street had been put on hold pending a Density Bonus-based supersizing of…
Another Mortuary on the Market, Positioned for Redevelopment
Built in 1915, Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary building at 1465 Valencia Street, between 25th and 26th Streets in the Mission, is now being shopped, positioned by Beckett Capital as…
Bigger Plans for Previously Torpedoed Infill Site
Having never recovered from stated concerns that a proposed four-story hotel to rise on the former Tower Records Annex turned bike rental parcel at 1196 Columbus Avenue, a development which…
Big Bayview Project Permitted to Rise
With the 1980s-era plan for the redevelopment of the Bayview Industrial Triangle having just expired, along with its restriction on residential development within said triangle, the approved plans for an…
Infamous Sea Cliff Mansion Slated for Foreclosure, Again
On the market for $19.675 million back 2016, having avoided being foreclosed upon by way of a Bankruptcy filing, the seven-bedroom home at 224 Sea Cliff Avenue appeared to have…
Muted Appreciation for a Modernized Victorian (And Its Past)
As we outlined back in June of 2017: Purchased as a 2,136-square-foot home for $1.995 million in 2014, the Cole Valley Victorian at 164 Belvedere Street (which had once been…
The Numbers Behind a $19 Million Penthouse Build and Lawsuit
Having paid $11 million for the unfinished Grand Penthouse shell #2 atop “The Pacific” at 2121 Webster Street, a unit with roughly 3,800 square feet of raw interior space and…
Bigger Plans for Building Up the Excelsior (And Déjà Vu)
Plans to redevelop the Excelsior District gas station site at 4199 Mission Street, which was purchased for $500,000 in 1998, have been in the works since 2007, at which point…