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Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory

March 27, 2024

Built to house a furniture factory in 1922, the historic 15,000-square-foot brick and timber building at 310 7th Street was purchased by designer Ken Fulk for $3.05 million in 2007…

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Upgraded Penthouse Trades at a Loss

January 18, 2023

As we outlined in September of last year: We’ve been fans of penthouse unit #613 atop the historic Embarcadero Lofts building at 300 Beale Street since we first featured the…

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Another Upgraded Penthouse Just Listed at a Loss

September 15, 2022

We’ve been fans of penthouse unit #613 atop the historic Embarcadero Lofts building at 300 Beale Street since we first featured the condo back in 2008. Having last traded hands…

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Plans to Expand and Convert Central SoMa Data Center Into…

September 2, 2022

Built in 1924 and acquired for $9.25 million in March of 2006, plans to expand and convert the Colgate Building at 620 3rd Street, which also fronts Rich, is a…

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Tweaks and Timing for Historic Infill Project [UPDATED]

February 9, 2022

Plans to raze everything but the historic façade of the recently refurbished Polk Gulch building at 1217 Sutter Street have been in the works since late 2020, as we first…

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Historic Red Victorian Hotel on the Market for $5 Million

February 7, 2022

Shuttered by the pandemic and then briefly occupied by the Fishbowl Collective, a multiracial group of trans & gender-nonconforming artists and housing advocates that were granted permission to host socially…

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Historic Addition Further Refined, Recommended for Approval

December 10, 2021

Having undergone another round of refinements, as newly rendered by Leavitt Architecture below, the plans for a five floor addition atop the historic Key Klub building at 850 Bush Street,…

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Counterintuitive Landmarking Slated to Proceed

November 12, 2021

San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission is slated to initiate a formal landmarking of the historic brick building on the southeast corner of Kansas and 15th Streets next week, a designation…

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Conversion of Historic Clay Theater Closer to Reality

October 7, 2021

Having shuttered in February of last year, plans to convert the historic Clay Theater at 2261 Fillmore Street into a retail space have since been drawn. And a formal application…

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Landmark Office Complex Closer to Reality

September 10, 2021

Designed by Gustave Albert (G. Albert) Lansburgh and built for H. Levi & Co. in 1912, the five-story brick warehouse building on the southeast corner of Kansas and 15th Street…

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Neighborhood Activist on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
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Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory

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