On the agenda for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this afternoon, an appeal of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed Booker T. Washington Community Services Center at 800 Presidio Avenue which would yield 50 housing units (24 for low income households, 24 for low income transitional age... Read More »

The renderings have been refined, the views from the court should be rather fan-tastic, and on Thursday San Francisco’s Planning Commission is scheduled to vote on the proposed new Booker T. Washington Community Services Center at 800 Presidio Avenue. The project proposes to construct a state-of-the-art community facility space... Read More »

Designed by Curlett & Cuthbertson and built in 1881 for Theodore F. Payne, the Payne Mansion at 1409 Sutter survived the fire in 1906 and has since been registered as a historic place in San Francisco. Serving in later years as a restaurant, an office building and even a... Read More »

The plans for 800 Presidio Avenue in Lower Pacific Heights as proposed, currently the site of a two-story, wood-frame 12,600-square-foot community center built in 1952 and operating as the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center: The proposed project would be constructed within one structure that would be divided into... Read More »

Twenty-one months ago 1515 Lyon was listed at $1,450,000. Two weeks later the asking price was reduced to $1,350,000. And five months after that it closed escrow with a reported contract price of $1,275,000 (on 10/25/06). Back on the market with a list price of $1,389,000 (and no permits... Read More »

It wasn’t the quick $130,000 price reduction (after less than a week on the market), or even the Los Gatos broker’s pre-reduction note (“fixup cost $250,000.00 Possible resale value would be $1,700,000.00”) which caught our attention. No, it was simply the vintage Wedgewood stove which conjured up warm thoughts... Read More »