City Seeking Affordable Housing Developers for Tenderloin Site
Back in 2005, the then-owner of the parking lot parcel on the southeast corner of Jones and Turk filed for permits to build a 5-story building at 180 Jones, a…
Development to Rise on Main Street Theater Site Closer to Reality
Having preliminary cleared a key environmental hurdle, the refined plans to raze the rustic Main Street Theater and develop apartments on its Excelsior District site at 915 Cayuga Avenue, which…
Waylaid Mission District Development Modified, Slated for Approval
Waylaid by a groundswell of local opposition, plans to mostly demolish the brick and timber Fitzgerald Furniture Company building on the northeast corner of 19th and Bryant Streets and develop…
Price Cut for Approved SoMa Development and Land
Approved by the City last year, the plans for a 24-unit development to rise up to six stories in height upon the former CrossFit site at 1228 Folsom Street and…
The Antithesis of Swoopy at Fifth and Brannan as Newly Proposed
While Tishman Speyer is pushing forward with plans to completely redevelop the northeast corner of Brannan and Fifth Streets, across from the contentious San Francisco Tennis Club project, an all-new…
Dogpatch Development Positioning to Break Ground sans BMRs
Entitled for development early last year, the building permits for the 109-unit project to rise up to seven stories in height at 2177 3rd Street have now been issued and…
Recommendation for Affordable Housing Requirements Revealed
With San Francisco Supervisors having drafted two competing proposals for overhauling the percentage and mix of below market rate (BMR or “affordable”) units that developers of market rate projects are…
Bigger Plans for Outer Sunset Gas Station Site
As originally proposed a couple years ago, the 76 station on the southwest corner of Lawton and 42nd Avenue in the Outer Sunset was to be razed for a four-story…
A Below Market Rate Reduction to under $500 per Square Foot
Purchased as new for $330,000 in 2007, or roughly $409 per square foot, as part of San Francisco’s inclusionary (a.k.a. Below Market Rate or Affordable) housing program, the 807-square-foot, one-bedroom…
The City’s Affordable Housing Recommendations and Dissent
Voters in San Francisco passed Proposition C last year, a ballot measure which effectively doubled the percentage of below market rate (BMR or “affordable”) units that developers of larger market…