Rincon Hill Tower Slated For Approval This Week
San Francisco’s Planning Commission is slated to approve Crescent Heights’ plan to construct a 250-foot tower with 118 dwelling units at 325 Fremont Street this week. The plans to build…
Bond, Affordable Housing Bond: Beyond The Battle Of The Ballots
Officially lobbed by Supervisor Chiu, Mayor Ed Lee is slated to answer the following “housing crisis” question of the week in a prepared address to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors…
The State Of San Francisco’s Downtown
Having emerged from “growing public awareness during the 1970’s that development threatened the essential character of downtown San Francisco,” San Francisco’s adopted Downtown Plan states that, “without sufficient and appropriate…
Jeanne Gang’s Design For 400-Foot Transbay District Tower Unveiled
Jeanne Gang’s designs for a proposed 40-story tower and mid-rise project to rise on the northwest corner of Folsom and Spear Street have been unveiled. A “reinterpretation of the city’s…
Behind CPMC’s Construction Fence On Cathedral Hill
The old Jack Tar Hotel is history. The excavators have been working overtime. And behind the fences on Cathedral Hill, the piles to shore up the site for CPMC’s Cathedral…
Plans For Twelve-Story Tenderloin Development Move Ahead
While SB Architects appears to have replaced Heller Manus as the architects of record, the plans for a 12-story building with a mix of market-rate residential units over ground floor…
A Peek Inside 222 Second Street’s Public Space And Art
Already fully pre-leased to LinkedIn, Tishman Speyer’s 450,000-square-foot building rising on the southwest corner of Second and Howard will reach 26 stories in height and should be ready for occupancy…
Designs For Six-Story “Student-Oriented” Development In Berkeley
Panoramic Interests is pushing forward with the proposed development of a 6-story “student-oriented” rental building to rise on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. As designed by Lowney Architecture, the 2539 Telegraph…
Mid-Market Fireworks: Rendering Flash And Rocketing Rents
Shorenstein is pushing forward with the development of 1066 Market Street, a proposed 300-unit building designed by Arquitectonica to rise a narrow twelve stories along Market Street with the bulk…
Home Depot’s Bayview Plans “On Hold,” 8 Acres Up For Grabs?
Home Depot filed an application to build a 120,000 square foot store at 2000 Marin Street on the northern edge of Bayview two years ago, four years after having walked…