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City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Remodeling and Renovation Trends

On the Market and Outed Anew, Another DUM on the Down-Low

December 16, 2021

Purchased as a two-unit building for $831,500 in October of 2011, permits to remodel the two one-bedroom, one-bath units at 1566 19th Street and 395 Arkansas, on the north slope…

City Planning Industry Stuff Remodeling and Renovation Trends

A DUM Remodeling “Mistake” That Could Be Rather Costly

December 2, 2021

Purchased as a vacant two-unit building for $690,000 in September of 2001, a permit to remodel the kitchen on the main/second floor of the rather lovely Victorian at 1016 Pierce…

City Planning Industry Stuff Remodeling and Renovation

The City’s Assessment of DBI’s Integrity and Required Reforms

September 17, 2021

Having completed a “Public Integrity Review” of the Department of Building Inspection’s (DBI’s) permitting and inspection processes, driven by a need to root out departmental fraud and a history of…

Breaking News City Planning Industry Stuff

Former Building Commission President Indicted

July 6, 2021

While the former president of San Francisco’s Building Inspection Commission, Rodrigo Santos, has been indicted for bank fraud, as charged last year, the City Attorney’s investigation into permitting, inspection and…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

Seeking Forgiveness for an Illegal Grow House Conversion

June 8, 2021

Illegally converted into a cannabis grow house early last year, with unpermitted electrical work and construction, a formal request “to convert” the former Bay Area Ironworks Suppliers building at 1440…

City Planning Industry Stuff Remodeling and Renovation

The Curious Case of the Reapparating Kitchen

April 14, 2021

Having been flagged for the addition of an unpermitted in-law unit back in early 2015, the Excelsior District home at 68 Vienna Street hit the market in July of 2015,…

Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

Seeking Forgiveness for the Former Abby Hotel

April 6, 2021

With the master lease to the San Francisco Art Institute, which had been using the building for student housing, having expired last year, and 52 of the 54 units, 27…

Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Presidio Heights Remodel Raises a Few Red Flags

March 3, 2021

Purchased as a “grand and totally vacant” 2-unit building, “with ample opportunity for expansion and renovation in a prime Presidio Heights location,” for $3.95 million in October of 2019, a…

Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

Infamous Dolores Park West Home Avoids Foreclosure, But…

October 28, 2020

As we outlined back in February: With the project team having successfully secured forgiveness for the under-permitted redevelopment of their rather spectacularly “reimagined” home at 3847-3849 18th Street at the…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Take Two (With an ADU) for a Suspended Noe Project

April 13, 2020

Purchased for $1.485 million in April of 2015, plans to “reconfigure,” remodel and expand the vacant two-unit building at 1369-1371 Sanchez Street were submitted to Planning and approved. Based upon…

Brahma (incensed renter) on Another 2 Million Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in San Francisco
Regarding the Angus McCarthy-proposed project at 1088 Sansome St. I brought up earlier in this thread, it looks like the…
The Milkshake of Despair on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Ironically Wilshire Blvd is nearly set up for a complete mega datacenter vertical integration. It already has the oil wells…
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Speaking of the Southland: "https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-09-27/insatiable-demand-for-data-centers-reported-as-ai-and-cloud-service-expand" Per the article: One Wilshire one of the early post height limit skyscrapers - I…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
As far as “what other uses that [more modern, yet currently vacant] office space could be converted to”, at the…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Sure. But as private entities, I think it's safe to assume that the funds and/or partnerships that KKR and Oakland-based…
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
the decline was linear over each relevant time frame That, of course, is the complication since the peak likely came…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
While it was only one data point, what I was going for was to suggest that with an 89.5 percent…
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
S(mall) S(ample) S(size) was the gist of my qualifying: clearly CRE has entered a territory few would have thought possible…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Compare that acquisition (however it took place) of the 15-story 180 Grand Ave. and its neighboring 370-stall parking garage in…
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
If you're referring to 180 Grand, the story is a little more complex: the "buyer" didn't buy it , per…

On the Market and Outed Anew, Another DUM on the Down-Low

A DUM Remodeling “Mistake” That Could Be Rather Costly

The City’s Assessment of DBI’s Integrity and Required Reforms

Former Building Commission President Indicted

Seeking Forgiveness for an Illegal Grow House Conversion

The Curious Case of the Reapparating Kitchen

Seeking Forgiveness for the Former Abby Hotel

Presidio Heights Remodel Raises a Few Red Flags

Infamous Dolores Park West Home Avoids Foreclosure, But…

Take Two (With an ADU) for a Suspended Noe Project

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