Mayor Lee to Lucas: This Is the Site You’re Looking For
While George Lucas hasn’t yet abandoned all plans to build his $700 million Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in Chicago, Mayor Ed Lee has been lobbying behind the scenes for Lucas…
Epic Battle Heating up over the Monster in the Mission
A public hearing to review and collect comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed 331-unit development to rise up to ten stories on the northeast corner of…
Appeal Challenges Development of Oakland’s Auto Row
While the plans for a seven-story Oakland development with 225 apartments over 23,000 square feet of retail space at 2400 Valdez Street were granted a key neighborhood plan-based exemption from…
SF’s LGBTQ History Could Hinder Mid-Market Development
From the recently completed Citywide Historic Context Statement for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) History in San Francisco, which was funded by a grant from the City’s Historic…
Plans for 225-Unit Auto Row Development Progress
The proposed plans for a seven-story Oakland development with 225 apartments over 23,000 square feet of retail space and an underground garage for 222 cars at 2400 Valdez Street have…
Refined Designs and Detour for a 13-Story Market Street Project
Plans for a 13-story building to rise at 1028 Market Street, with 186 apartments over four (4) ground-floor restaurant/retail spaces and a basement garage for 42 cars, are pushing forward…
City Approves Warriors Arena Impact Report But Challenges Remain
San Francisco’s Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure has approved the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Golden State Warriors proposed Mission Bay Arena, but opponents have ten days to…
Comments, Responses And Key Vote For The Warriors Arena
Over twenty-five hundred pages of public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Golden State Warriors’ proposed Mission Bay Arena Project, and the City’s responses, have just been…
Comments And Responses To Huge Potrero Hill Redevelopment Plan
A 586-page summary of the comments received on the master plan for redeveloping the 33-acre public housing development atop Potrero Hill and the Planning Department’s responses to said comments was…
Golden Gate Park Turf War Isn’t Over, Sierra Club Counter Attacks
Despite the fact that voters in San Francisco approved a ballot measure in support of the approved conversion of the Beach Chalet’s four grass soccer fields to synthetic turf and…