Community Meeting Ruckus Over Mission Development
Last night’s community meeting in the Mission, intended to sway the opposition to the development of a 331-unit building at the corner of 16th and Mission, devolved into a shouting…
Talk Of “Housing Moratorium” In The Mission Shouldn’t Surprise
Tongues are wagging over reports that San Francisco Supervisor David Campos is preparing to propose a “moratorium” on the development of market-rate housing around 24th Street in the Mission. But…
Scoop: New Designs For Big Development At Mission And 16th
The formal environmental review for a proposed 331-unit development to rise up to ten stories on the northeast corner of Mission and 16th Streets, at the entrance to the 16th…
Legislation To Protect Clubs From Encroaching Condos
With noise complaints from residents in buildings that have recently risen or been converted in neighborhoods that were formerly commercial in character and have historically catered to clubs and other…
Changing Demographics: Condos To Replace Mission Laundromat
Plans to raze the laundromat and mural on the southeast corner of 24th and York, adjacent to the Brava Theater Center, have been drawn. And as proposed, a five-story building…
Developer Aims To Undermine Opposition By Raising A Playground
In an attempt to win-over local opposition to their plans for building a ten-story condo development with 300+ units above the 16th Street BART station on the northeast corner of…
The Gentrification Of San Francisco And Oakland By Neighborhood
The Development Without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area report by Causa Justa maps the gentrification of San Francisco and Oakland by zip code and stage. While the report…
Ironic Or Not: Designs For Condos Cater-Corner To Protest Site
Plans to raze the existing Unocal 76 Station on the northwest corner of Valencia and 24th Streets and construct a six-story condo building on the parcel have been drafted by…
Mission Creek Then And Now (And Remembrances Of RVs Past)
It’s a nice then (2003) and now look down Mission Creek to AT&T Park from the Chronicle. “The area next to the ballpark had just 540 residents in the 2000…
Conservation Of Crime (And Gentrification): Tenderloin To The Marina?
While the Marina exports an element to Hayes Valley, a plugged-in tipster reports that the Marina seems to be importing elements of the Tenderloin. Recently, a friend of mine living…