Neighborhood Changing Development Closer to Reality
Banking on the survival of San Francisco’s Central SoMa Plan, Tishman Speyer is pushing forward with plans to completely redevelop the northeast corner of Brannan and Fifth Streets, across from…
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Planning for Contentious Central SoMa Development Proceeds
In the works since 2012 and dependent upon the survival of San Francisco’s Central SoMa Plan, at least with respect to its new height limits, the application to proceed with…
Much Bigger Plans for this Central SoMa Gas Station Site
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 Station site on the southwest corner of…
Recommendation to Prioritize Development in Central SoMa
Approved by voters in 1986, Proposition M limits the amount of new office space that can be built in San Francisco and provides San Francisco’s Planning Commission with the sole…
Appreciation for a Historic Heublein Building Loft
Purchased for $930,000 in March of 2016, the 953-square-foot unit #101 in the historic Heublein building at 601 4th Street, across the street from a new Central Subway stop at…
Even Bigger Plans for Prominent SoMa Gas Station Site
As we first reported last year: Plans to level the Central SoMa Shell station on the northeast corner of Bryant and construct a modern, 9-story office building on its 598…
Lusk Street Penthouse Loft Fetches its 2015 Price
Purchased for $1.45 million in July of 2015, the 1,614-square-foot unit #4 atop 38 Lusk Street returned to the market priced at $1.475 million this past October. The penthouse level…
Detailed Plans for a Key Central SoMa Site and a Non-Tower Design
Up-zoned for development up to 200 feet in height, assuming the adoption of San Francisco’s Central SoMa Plan is upheld, detailed plans for redeveloping the nearly one acre parcel at…
Chic Central SoMa Loft Nearly Fetches its 2016 Price
Purchased for $1.2 million February of 2016, the “chic” penthouse unit #801 at the Palms on 4th Street, returned to the market listed for $1.295 million at the end of…
Home of the Largest Sex Club in SF on the Market in SoMa
Hidden behind a rather nondescript industrial façade at 933 Harrison Street, the “largest sex club in San Francisco,” the 6,000-square-foot Blow Buddies club, has operated for nearly 30 years. And…