Million Dollar Price Cut for Peter Thiel’s Mansion
Listed for $9.25 million this past May and briefly pulled from the MLS when the Million Dollar Listing agent changed brokerages, the list price for Peter Thiel’s Marina mansion at…
Plans to Redevelop the Historic Gas Light Company’s Garden House
With the redevelopment of the adjacent gas station site underway, plans to raze the historic San Francisco Gas Light Company’s former garden house and workshop at 3620 Buchanan Street, which…
Peter Thiel’s Mansion Pulled from the MLS
While Peter Thiel, the iconic Silicon Valley investor and co-founder of PayPal, prepares to take center stage at the Republican National Convention, the staged listing for his Marina Mansion at…
An Appeal to Prevent Marijuana Sales on Lombard
While the controversial plan to open the first (legal) Medical Cannabis Dispensary (MCD) north of Geary Boulevard, at 2414 Lombard Street on the border between Cow Hollow and the Marina,…
Iconic Silicon Valley VC Selling His Marina Mansion and HQ
The Marina District mansion that PayPal co-founder, turned iconic Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Peter Thiel, purchased for $6.5 million in 2010 (and then spent a pretty penny to reconfigure and…
Plans for Long-Vacant Lombard Site in the Works
With the 21-unit VELA nearing completion at 2353 Lombard Street, we turn our attention to the adjacent undeveloped parcel to the east known as 2301 Lombard, a parcel which has…
Lombard Street Development Dubbed VELA, Leasing Late Spring
Dubbed “VELA,” the 21-unit apartment building rising at 2353 Lombard Street, which has been under construction since June of 2015, should be ready for occupancy this summer. A mix of…
Lombard Street Fixture Shuttered, to Be Razed for Condos to Rise
The Kentucky Fried Chicken which has occupied the southwest corner of Lombard and Fillmore for over forty years has been shuttered, and the freestanding building, which was rebuilt as a…
A Fast Food Fixture’s Days Are Numbered
Rebuilt in 2007 but having occupied the southwest corner of Lombard and Fillmore for over forty years, plans to demolish the freestanding KFC/Taco Bell building at 2101 Lombard Street are…
Brick-Clad Marina Condos with Lots of Parking Slated for Approval
The plans for a four-story Marina building, with 28 market-rate condos to rise upon the shuttered Chevron station site at the corner of Bay and Buchanan, are slated to be…