CityPlace Parcels Along Market Scheduled For Foreclosure This Week
As we first reported last year: Five parcels along Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets have been hit with Notices of Default (NOD’s) including 935-939 Market, 943 Market, and…
The Bluepeter Building Loses Its Battle
As a plugged-in reader reports, the fight to save the Bluepeter building at 555 Illinois is over and the wrecking balls and heavy machinery have won. While neighbors had wanted…
Going Up (And Perhaps Coming Down This Weekend)
While Palms might be known as “high-rise condominiums for rats,” apparently vines are escalators. From a plugged-in builder in San Francisco: Hate to point out a glaring negative, but ivy…
Getting “Artistic” With The 2012 Dream House Marketing Materials
Apparently there wasn’t enough of an actual Bay view from this year’s San Francisco Dream House for their marketing materials, so as a plugged-in tipster catches, they simply photoshopped in…
Macys.com Headed To 680 Folsom Street As First Reported
Two months ago a plugged-in reader first reported a deal with Macys.com was in the works to lease 250k square feet at 680 Folsom Street. Yesterday, a 15-year lease for…
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Conversion Of 1945 Hyde Street Set To Get Started
Following a two year approval process and failed appeal led by the Russian Hill Community Association to block development, permits have been pulled for the Ogrydziak/Prillinger led residential conversion of…
The 333 Fremont Scoop: Let The Shoring Begin
It’s a plugged-in tipster that first caught the construction equipment arriving on the 399 Fremont site yesterday, but it’s not for the Californian to start rising. No, it’s actually to…
A Plugged-In Reader’s Disasterlicious Comment/Caption Of The Month
In the words of a plugged-in reader: “The only thing more disasterlicious than a stairway without a handrail is the same with a 90 degree turn at the very top.…
A Chef’s Restaurateur’s Kitchen And Misstep(s)
Purchased for $1,225,000 in August 2006 and financed with a mortgage for $980,000, in 2007 a second was drawn for $97,206, perhaps to help pay for the “swank” remodel for…
Scoop: A Record $3,000 Per Square Foot In San Francisco Within Sight
Quietly delisted from the MLS last week, tongues are wagging, and lips are being licked, with respect to Penthouse B atop 1170 Sacramento Street. And yes, it’s in contract. According…