Draft Design For Building To Replace Historic Market Street Bar
As we first reported earlier this week, a new set of plans have been submitted to Planning for a proposed five-story residential building to rise across the Market Street site…
Lucky 13 Likely To Be Razed For 31 Condos To Rise
Plans to raze the iconic little building currently occupied by the Lucky 13 bar at 2140 Market Street, and its adjacent patio and parking lot, have been submitted to San…
Save Two Facades, Site Cleared For Pine Street Towers To Rise
Left standing like a Hollywood set, two thin brick facades are all that remain of a pair of historic buildings on the north side of Pine between Franklin and Van…
Ritz-Carlton Club Planning to Convert Hotel Rooms to Condos
When the Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences project was originally approved for development, adding eight stories to the old Chronicle Building at 690 Market Street and converting it to residential use,…
Hiding Behind The Façade Of A Historic Resource
Deemed a historic resource, the façade of 421 Arguello Boulevard was saved while the building behind was razed to make room for 8 new housing units to rise. It’s the…
Disapproved For Development In 2010, Another Plan Is Pitched
Permits to demolish the one-story warehouse on the northwest corner of 15th and Shotwell and construct a four story building with ten apartments on the site were disapproved in 2010,…
The South Mission Historic Thirteen (and Another 988)
The Planning Department’s recently completed South Mission Historic Resource Survey of 3,752 individual properties within the roughly 100 block square bounded by 20th Street, Cesar Chavez, Potrero Avenue and Guerrero…
The Survey Of Detroit’s San Francisco’s Historic Auto Row
On the agenda for San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission this afternoon, a vote to adopt, modify, or disapprove the Planning Department’s Automotive Support Structures Historic Survey and context statement. The…
Saving Tatanka The Tonga Room
While it’s true that the proposed Fairmont Hotel Revitalization And Tower Rebuilding Project would in fact result in the demolition of the Tonga Room, and the Planning Department’s Draft Environmental…
The “Resourceful” Demolition Of A Historic Resource? (1268 Lombard)
From the Chronicle with regard to the pending demolition of 1268 Lombard: “Over preservationists’ protests, city officials are poised to approve demolition of one of San Francisco’s oldest buildings –…