Housing Policy Hypocrisy In San Francisco?
While the Mayor’s Office has agreed to spend a potential record-setting amount to purchase a Mission District development site in order to build 72 units of affordable housing, the City…
Proposed Waterfront Tower Rendered With Five New Towers As Well
Earlier this week we revealed the new design for the proposed 20-story residential tower to rise at 75 Howard Street, with 133 market rate condos over 6,000 square feet of…
City To Pay Luxury Price For Affordable Mission District Development
The City of San Francisco has agreed to pay $18.5 million for the former “Quality Tune-Up” site at 490 South Van Ness Avenue and 16th Street in the Mission, a…
Signatures For Mission District Housing Moratorium Delivered
The sponsors of the proposed ballot measure which would impose a Mission District Housing Moratorium have delivered 15,101 signatures in support of the initiative to San Francisco’s Department of Elections.…
SRO Units To Replace Shuttered Suriya Thai Space In SoMa
Shuttered three years ago this month, the former Suriya Thai restaurant space at 1532 Howard Street has been vacant since. But plans to raze the restaurant and construct a six-story…
Frozen Valencia Street Development Cleared To Recommence, But…
Frozen mid-construction by a Superior Court Judge who ruled that San Francisco’s Board of Appeals had abused its discretion and “failed to set forth the analytic route it traveled” when…
Team Preparing To Break Ground For 400-Foot Transbay Tower
Essex Property Trust and TMG Partners are preparing to break ground earlier than expected for the 400-foot tower to rise at the corner of Folsom and First on Transbay Block…
Minimum Bid For 750-Foot Transbay Tower Site: $160M
The minimum bid for Transbay Parcel F, which is located mid-block between First, Second, Howard and Natoma Streets and zoned for building a tower up to 750-feet in height, has…
Appeal Succeeds But Development Will Proceed As Proposed
The appeal to invalidate the Planning Commission’s exception to San Francisco’s Planning Code which was granted for the 420-unit development to rise at 150 Van Ness was technically a success.…
Group Housing ‘Loopholes’ Could Soon Be Closed
Many of the recently proposed Group Housing developments in San Francisco, with shared kitchens and living areas, have been positioned as creative solutions to maximize density and minimize rents in…