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Plans for Excelsior District Site Close to Being Entitled, But…

Plans for Excelsior District Site Close to Being Entitled, But…

Plans to redevelop the Excelsior District gas station site at 4199 Mission Street, which was purchased for $500,000 in 1998, have been in the works since 2007, at which point a four-story, 40-foot-tall building, with 12 condos over 2,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and a garage... Read More »

Re-Revised Plans for Building Up on Geary Closer to Reality

Re-Revised Plans for Building Up on Geary Closer to Reality

As we outlined a few years ago, there was a fundamental problem with the proposed plans for a bonus-sized, 9-story development of “group housing” units to rise up to 89 feet in height upon the Grand Hot Pot Lounge building’s parcel at 3565 Geary Boulevard. And in fact, said... Read More »

Refined Plans for That Supersized Telegraph Hill Development

Refined Plans for That Supersized Telegraph Hill Development

The refined plans for a supersized, 10-story building to rise up to 94 feet in height, or 108 feet in height when accounting for a 14-foot-tall mechanical penthouse and “terrace lobby,” upon the parking garage parcel at 955 Sansome Street, at the base of Telegraph Hill, will be presented... Read More »

Another Approved Tower Not Positioning to Break Ground

Another Approved Tower Not Positioning to Break Ground

As we outlined and suggested earlier this year: The refined plans for a 14-story tower with a variegated upper mass to rise upon the Polk Gulch parcel at 925 O’Farrell Street could be entitled next week. Having added an additional 10 feet in height since formally proposed, the 140-foot-tall... Read More »

Plans for 14-Story Variegated Tower Slated for Approval

Plans for 14-Story Variegated Tower Slated for Approval

The refined plans for a 14-story tower with a variegated upper mass to rise upon the Polk Gulch parcel at 925 O’Farrell Street could be entitled next week. Having added an additional 10 feet in height since formally proposed, the 140-foot-tall tower on the through block lot would yield... Read More »

Telegraph Hill Project Has Been Supersized as Well

Telegraph Hill Project Has Been Supersized as Well

While Planning’s preliminary review of the preliminary plans for a seven-story, 24-unit building to rise up to 84 feet in height upon the parking garage parcel at 955 Sansome Street, at the base of Telegraph Hill, didn’t raise any major red flags, it did elicit “multiple inquiries from individuals... Read More »

The Supersized Plans for the Sloat Garden Center Site

The Supersized Plans for the Sloat Garden Center Site

Supersized plans for redeveloping the landmark Sloat Garden Center site at 2700 Sloat Boulevard have, in fact, been drawn, plans which now envision a 12-story rising up to 125 feet in height across the Outer Parkside block, as newly rendered by Korb and Associates. The new plans for the... Read More »

Opposed Twin Peaks Infill Project Officially Approved

Opposed Twin Peaks Infill Project Officially Approved

While San Francisco’s Planning Department had received 41 letters in opposition to the proposed infill development to rise up to 46 in height upon the seemingly shoehorned Twin Peaks parcel at 4512 23rd Street, which technically fronts a little known spur of 23rd Street and Argent Alley, between Market... Read More »

Inflation in the Excelsior and on the Boards

Inflation in the Excelsior and on the Boards

While plans to raze the 20-foot-tall discount store building at 4550 Mission Street were first drafted back in 2006, the ground has yet to be broken. And the former Woolworth’s turned “One $ Only” store is now “$1.25 or Less.” And while plans for a five-story, 24-unit building to... Read More »

Bonus Plans for Building Up on Clement Closer to Reality

Bonus Plans for Building Up on Clement Closer to Reality

As we outlined early last year, plans to raze the shuttered China Dance School & Theater building on the southeast corner of Clement and 32nd Avenue are in the works. And as envisioned, a six-story building could rise up to 64 feet in height upon the 3055 Clement Street... Read More »