Agreement To Keep Affordable Housing Out Of New Tower
The proposal to keep affordable housing out of the 800-foot tower rising at 181 Fremont Street has been recommended for approval and will be presented to San Francisco’s Planning Commission…
Lennar Planning Major Development in The Mission
Not to be confused with the modern 40-unit building which has already risen at 1515 15th Street, Lennar Urban has filed a proposal to raze the McMillan Electric building at…
Cost To Build Affordable Housing On Sixth Street: $690K Per Unit
With a 99-year ground lease from the City of San Francisco for which Mercy Housing will pay a total of $99 as proposed, the projected cost of building the affordable…
Long-Abandoned Mission Street Site Slated For Major Development
A transfer of the long-abandoned Phoenix Continuation High School site at 1950 Mission Street, between 15th and 16th Streets, from the San Francisco Unified School District to the Mayor’s Office…
Timing And Details For Starchitect Designed Transbay District Tower
Related California is planning to start construction on the 56-story tower designed by Architect Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to rise at the corner of Folsom…
Grand Jury: Gloomy Outlook For Affordable Housing In SF, Unless…
In order to meet the Mayor’s goal of creating 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes in San Francisco by 2020, developers will need to deliver an average of 5,000 units of…
Housing Balance Versus Housing Now
Supervisor Jane Kim is moving forward with a ballot measure which would require developers to obtain special authorization from the Planning Commission in order to build any market rate housing…
Plans For Condos To Rise On The Parking Lot At 7th And Minna
Plans for an eight-story SoMa building with 39 condos over two ground floor retail spaces at the corner of Seventh and Minna are slated to be approved by San Francisco’s…
8 Octavia: Timing, Sales, And A Peek Inside
Construction on 8 Octavia, the modern 47-unit building designed by Stanley Saitowitz rising on the former Central Freeway parcel along Octavia between Market and Haight, is on-track to be finished…
Earning $81K Qualifies One For Below Market Rate Housing In SF
When politicians and developers speak of “affordable” housing in San Francisco, they’re typically referring to housing that falls within the City’s Below Market Rate (BMR) program. Housing units within the…