While the unemployment rate in San Francisco declined in July, the number of San Francisco residents that filed a new/initial unemployment claim last month actually ticked up 5.3 percent to 25,354, reversing a two month run in which the number of new claims had either dropped or held. And... Read More »

As noted by a plugged-in tipster, the buyers of a $5.85 million, two-bedroom unit on the 55th floor of the new tower at 181 Fremont Street have just filed suit against the tower’s development team, agents and brokers involved in the sale back in late 2016, claiming fraud, deceit... Read More »

With the number of newly proposed units of housing to be built in San Francisco having ticked up in the fourth quarter of last year, the number of apartments and condos under development in San Francisco (i.e., the city’s housing pipeline) ended 2019 at a new record high and... Read More »

With the plans for a five-story, 129-unit development to rise up to 55 feet in height on the on the northeast corner of Howard and Ninth having been approved back in 2017, the now former Chevron/Burger King/Starbucks on the site was then shuttered and razed in 2018. As first... Read More »

As part of the widening probe and criminal investigation into San Francisco’s former Director of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru, the City Attorney’s Office has just issued 14 subpoenas related to the (waylaid) Hayes Valley development at 555 Fulton Street. Six (6) of the subpoenas were issued to companies linked... Read More »

The ground for the 141-unit modular development to rise on Mission Bay South Block 9, adjacent to San Francisco’s new Public Safety Building and across the street from Phase 2 of the Giants’ massive Mission Rock development, is tentatively slated to be broken this June. If everything goes as... Read More »

With the first phase of Kilroy Reality’s massive Oyster Point development underway, Kilroy’s precise plan for the remaining four phases of the 31-acre project, which has been entitled but still needs to be approved, will be presented to the Design Review Board of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and... Read More »

The 45-story tower rising at 706 Mission Street, which was officially flagged a Four Seasons residential development last year, as we first reported at the time, has officially topped off. Once again, the building’s 146 condos will be managed by Four Seasons staff, with typical units ranging in size... Read More »

Oceanwide Holdings has officially suspended development of one of the two Oceanwide Center towers under construction at First and Mission Streets. While development of the faceted, 910-foot-tall tower fronting First Street, which will yield 109 condos over 1.1 million square feet of office space and a ground floor “urban... Read More »

As we first reported earlier this year: Mission Rock Partners, which is a Joint Venture between the San Francisco Giants and Tishman Speyer, is positioning to break ground on the first phase of their massive (yes, massive) redevelopment of the Port’s 28‐acre Seawall Lot 337 (a.k.a Oracle Park’s Parking... Read More »