Cab Company Seeking Legacy Business Status in San Francisco
In a sign of the times with a side of irony, the Luxor Cab Company, which has operated in San Francisco since 1928, has applied for Legacy Business status and…
Plans for a Modern Burger Shack to Serve Bayview’s Mendell Plaza
The vacant 700-square-foot shack at 4801 Third Street was built on what was to become Bayview’s Mendell Plaza back in 1974. Muraled a few years ago in conjunction with a…
Architects of Skinny Bayview Infill Building Get Creative
Responding to neighborhood concern that fewer off-street parking spaces won’t discourage car ownership but rather increase competition for on-street spaces and congestion, while also addressing concerns that backing cars out…
A Surefire Way to Secure an Over Asking Sale in San Francisco
Purchased for $670,000 in 2005, the subsequently remodeled Bayview home at 1426 Van Dyke Avenue resold for $630,000 in 2007. And in 2012, the property was foreclosed upon and taken…
Back Below 2005 in Bayview?
As we wrote about the Bayview home at 1426 Van Dyke Avenue last month (which sparked an interesting and honest dialog about the neighborhood): “Purchased for $670,000 in 2005, the…
Third Street Rising Take Three: Now with More Parking as Proposed
As we first reported last year, the plans for a six-story Bayview building to rise on the triangular 4101 Third Street parcel, between Hudson and Innes Avenues, had been downwardly…
Back to 2005 in Bayview?
Purchased for $670,000 in 2005, the remodeled Bayview home at 1426 Van Dyke Avenue resold for $630,000 in 2007. And in 2012, the property was foreclosed upon and taken back…
Designs for Building up in Bayview
Built for a saloon in 1900, the first floor of the two-story Bayview building at 4128 Third Street was converted into McAfee’s One Hour Martinizing in 1996. A fire damaged…
Bayview Police Station Sells for $1.6 Million
Built in 1915 to serve residents of Bayview and Potrero Hill, the original South East Police Station on Newcomb Avenue, between Third and Newhall, was shuttered in the 1990’s when…
Bayview Rising, Take Two
Plans to construct a four-story building with 12 residential units over a bit of commercial space upon the vacant 4101 Third Street lot, between Hudson and Innes Avenues, were abandoned…