Holdout’s Days Appear to Be Numbered
While the refined plans for the nearly blocked-sized Central SoMa development to rise up to 14-stories in height along Harrison Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets, were approved at the…
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Big Central SoMa Project Positioning to Break Ground Next Year
The proposed mass redevelopment of 12 contiguous Central SoMa parcels stretching from 400 Second Street to 665 Harrison, a.k.a. the One Vassar project, has just qualified for a streamlined environmental…
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Refined Plans for Redevelopment of Historic Tres Site
While Planning balked at the proposed approach for securing two separate office allocations for the redevelopment of the historic Central SoMa building at 130 Townsend Street, which is currently home…
Key Central SoMa Development Refined, Slated for Approval
The refined plans for the newly dubbed “Harrison Gardens” development to rise on the Key Central SoMa Development Site at 725 Harrison Street, between 3rd and 4th, could be approved…
One of Two Folsom Street Projects Positioned to Break Ground
Speaking of previously approved projects that have yet to break ground, the entitlements for the 230-unit development to rise at 667 Folsom Street are slated to expire in two months…
Hotel Plans Scrapped, Office Building(s) Now on the Boards
The plans for a 239-room hotel to rise up to 8 stories in height across the irregularly shaped Central SoMa parking lot parcel at 424 Brannan Street appear to have…
Partial Infill of Another SoMa Gas Station Site Slated for Approval
As we first reported back in 2016: With the lease for the Shell station on the corner of Fifth and Folsom expiring , plans for a slender eight-story building to…
Novel Proposal for Tres Site Doesn’t Pass Muster
As we outlined back in July: While limited by its historic façade, which would be preserved as proposed, plans to redevelop the Central SoMa parcel at 130 Townsend Street, upon…
Density Bonus Battle Lines Are Being Drawn
As we first reported earlier this year: While plans for an eight-story hotel to rise up to 85 feet in height upon the eastern three-quarters of the Central SoMa Shell…
Height of Proposed Tower(s) Likely to Be Reduced
As we first revealed last month, bonus plans for a 245-unit residential building to rise up to 294 feet in height on the northwest corner of Harrison and Hawthorne have…