A plugged-in tipster forwards a 55 Laguna update from Seth Kilbourn, Executive Director of openhouse: In April 2008, AF Evans Development and openhouse received entitlement from the City of San Francisco to develop the 55 Laguna Street site. Since receiving entitlement, the City, AF Evans and openhouse have been... Read More »
In what’s likely not to be good news for the development of 55 Laguna (at the very least with regard to timing), Oakland based developer AF Evans has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection citing “plummeting house prices and the credit crunch.” ∙ AF Evans Co. files Chapter 11... Read More »
Developer AF Evans has proposed to build 282 residential units, 332 parking spaces, and approximately 14,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space in a “seven-story building stretching from 1634 through 1690 Pine St. near Franklin Street, from which one 25-story and one 12-story tower would rise.” Planner Tammy... Read More »
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