Major Hotel Expansion Redesigned and Closer to Reality
While the mass of the proposed four-story addition to rise upon the parking lot of the Fisherman’s Wharf Holiday Inn at 1300 Columbus Avenue hasn’t really changed, its façade has…
Supervisors Overturn Approval of Lower Nob Hill Hotel
While approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission last month, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has sided with a public appeal of the project and unanimously voted to overturn the required…
Plans for a Boutique Hotel in the Heart of the Castro
While a reincarnation of the restaurant Maroc has recently been reported as ‘coming soon’ to the vacant Cafe La Taza space on its second floor, plans to level the Bite…
Planning Seeks More Celebratory Design for Big Hotel Expansion
Built in 1971, with a total of 342 hotel rooms and 220 parking spaces on its nearly two-acre parcel at 1300 Columbus Avenue, plans to add 174 new rooms to…
Proposed North Beach Hotel Closer to Reality
As we first reported last month, plans to raze the former Tower Records Annex turned bike rental shop at 1196 Columbus Avenue and develop a 75-room Moxy Hotel upon the…
Proposed 18-Story Oakland Hotel Closer to Reality
The plans for a proposed 18-story Marriott hotel (with 276 rooms over 1,600 square feet of ground floor retail space and a parking garage for 95 cars) to rise up…
Plans for a Moxy Hotel to Rise in North Beach Back in Play
Having effectively been on hold for a couple of years, plans to raze the former Tower Records Annex turned bike rental shop run by Sports Basement at 1196 Columbus Avenue…
Plans for a Hotel to Sprout on Shuttered ‘Oasis of the ‘Loin’ Site
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…
Plans for Boutique Union Square Hotel Back in Play
Originally approved for development in 2001 but then waylaid by the dotcom collapse, followed by a decline in tourism after 9/11, and then by “the collapse of the housing market…
Plans for a 12-Story, 300-Room Hotel Right Here
The big plans for either 112 condos or 190,000 square feet of office space to rise up to 11 stories in height upon the auto shop parcels at 565-589 Bryant…