As we first revealed back in early 2017: The designs for a modern 200-foot-tall hotel and condo building to rise at 447 Battery Street, a site which is currently occupied by the three-story Cort Furniture Rental building at the corner of Battery and Merchant, have been drawn and formally... Read More »
As we first reported last year, plans to redevelop the iconic Buon Gusto Sausage Factory building at 535 Green Street, which was once the largest sausage and salami producing facility in the west, and its adjacent parking lot parcel, were in the works. The draft plans had envisioned that... Read More »
The “two-bedroom” home at 2140 Great Highway hit the market earlier this year, with a marketing push touting its “Mondrian inspired” paint job (which the seller had successfully maintained for two decades). “Featuring unobstructed views of the sun, sky, sand and surf,” and a newly landscaped backyard (not to... Read More »
As we first reported last year: Built in 1948, the shuttered Buon Gusto Sausage Factory at 535 Green Street was once the largest sausage and salami producing facility in the west. The 8,600-square-foot building, which is in need of work and includes a 4,000-square-foot basement, sits on an 11,000-square-foot... Read More »
Founded as Wally Heider Recording back in 1969 and now known as Hyde Street Studios, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, CCR, Dead Kennedys, Green Day, Tupac, Cake, Chris Isaak and a long list of significant others have all laid down tracks at 245 Hyde Street in San Francisco’s... Read More »
Shuttered by a rent increase last year, plans to level the former Amsterdam Café at 937 Geary Street, along with the two adjacent storefronts at 939 Geary (Hanaro Cocktails) and 941 Geary, are in the works. And as proposed, a five-story hotel will rise up to 58 feet in... Read More »
The plans for a 96-unit building to rise up to 85 feet in height at the intersection of Market and Duboce, behind the historic façade of the former Gantner Brothers’ Funeral Home building at 1965 Market Street, which was built for the funeral home in 1924 and converted to... Read More »
The designs for a six-story hotel to rise behind the historic Art Deco façade of the Central SoMa garage at 224 Townsend Street have been drawn and proposed. But the City isn’t digging the plans. As designed by Stanton Architecture for Stonebridge Reality Advisors, which is in contract to... Read More »
The refined plans for a modern 9-story building to rise behind the one-story façade of the G&R Paint Company store at 1238 Sutter, between Polk and Van Ness, are slated to be approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission next week. As designed by D-Scheme Studio for Celtic Development, the... Read More »
With the sale of the 1965 Market Street site having closed escrow, the plans for an 88-unit building to rise up to 85-feet (eight stories) in height behind the existing stucco façades at the intersection of Market and Duboce, and up to 50-feet in height atop the site’s parking... Read More »
“Typical SCB crap... This is so sad. Oakland push for better design, I'm so disappointed....” [more]
“"And once again, we’re not going to set the official over/under for demands that the plans for the...” [more]
“Logic fail. Slippery slope and reductio ad absurdum. Well played, sir, or madam!...” [more]
“It went from interesting to okay to boring... why bother?...” [more]
“How come when someone is trying to eliminate homelessness some has to act stupid and write things to...” [more]
“While I agree, Paris has several factors that preclude us from ever getting as dense with their same...” [more]
“Those trend lines are looking wacky....” [more]
“this is actually a very clever use of the density bonus. as Mike said, the Density Bonus Law consid...” [more]
“Because of course, that would mean that the community couldn't get their oar in on any potential dev...” [more]
“Maybe if San Francisco got with the rest of California and lowered legal ceiling height to 7 feet vs...” [more]