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Historic Addition Further Refined, Recommended for Approval

Historic Addition Further Refined, Recommended for Approval

Having undergone another round of refinements, as newly rendered by Leavitt Architecture below, the plans for a five floor addition atop the historic Key Klub building at 850 Bush Street, which is located within the Lower Nob Hill National Register Historic District and was most recently home to Hopwater... Read More »

High-Density (Grocery Store) Site in Play

High-Density (Grocery Store) Site in Play

The 3,149-square-foot parcel upon which the Food & Liquor World grocery store building currently sits at 726-28 Post Street is on the market with a $2.5 million price tag. In addition to being zoned for development up to 80 feet in height, prior to any bonuses, the Lower Nob... Read More »

Historic Addition Redesigned, Rendered and Formally Proposed

Historic Addition Redesigned, Rendered and Formally Proposed

Having faced some pushback from Planning as originally envisioned, the plans for a five floor addition atop the historic Key Klub building at 850 Bush Street, which is located within the Lower Nob Hill National Register Historic District and currently home to Hopwater Distribution, have been redesigned and formally... Read More »

Infill Development Completely Redesigned, Closer to Reality

Infill Development Completely Redesigned, Closer to Reality

With the bulky plans for a 9-story, 106-unit development to rise on the two-story garage and office building site at 955 Post Street having met with resistance from Planning, from the building’s proposed finishes to its mass, an all new set of plans for the parcel have been drawn:... Read More »

Re-Approved Development in Play (Save Its Penthouse Unit)

Re-Approved Development in Play (Save Its Penthouse Unit)

Purchased for $2.75 million in 2005 with approved plans for a 13-story, 41-unit residential building to rise on the site, the two-story commercial building which had occupied the 7,000-square-foot parcel at 651 Geary Street was effectively lost to foreclosure in 2010, subsequently condemned and then demolished in late 2013.... Read More »

Proposed Navigation Center on Post Closer to Reality

Proposed Navigation Center on Post Closer to Reality

With the support of Supervisor Peskin, the formal application to convert the top two floors of the shuttered House of Fans building at 888 Post Street, at the corner of Hyde, which sits on the border of Peskin’s Supervisorial District Three and Supervisor Haney’s District Six (which is right... Read More »

Appreciation for a Classic Downtown Condo

Appreciation for a Classic Downtown Condo

Designed by Frederick Herman Meyer and finished in 1913, the Belgravia at 795 Sutter Street is a classic 18-unit building. Purchased for $1.5 million in May of 2016, unit #301 measures roughly 2,000 square feet and features a proportionate 9-foot ceiling, beautifully maintained finishes and a three-bedroom, two-bath layout... Read More »

Downsized Development Slated for Approval in the Tendernob

Downsized Development Slated for Approval in the Tendernob

Plans to raze the “fully remodeled Single-Family Home with all the bells and whistles” at 611 Jones Street, which was purchased for $3 million in 2015, and build up to 90 feet in height upon the narrow Lower Nob Hill site, a block from its border with the Tenderloin,... Read More »

Site of Project Blocked by Supes to Be Sold Rather Than Developed

Site of Project Blocked by Supes to Be Sold Rather Than Developed

With the approved plans for a 6-story, 30-room hotel to rise upon the vacant Lower Nob Hill parcel at 824 Hyde Street having been overturned by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors last week, the owners of the parcel have just put the site back on the market rather than... Read More »

Supervisors Overturn Approval of Lower Nob Hill Hotel

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 conditional use authorization for the proposed 6-story, 30-room hotel to rise over 50 feet in height upon the vacant... Read More »