Armchair and professional planners, architects, designers, artists and makers take note: San Francisco’s Planning Department is partnering with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to produce the Market Street Prototyping Festival. The Prototyping Festival will be held on two miles of Market Street from Embarcadero to 10th on October 2,... Read More »

Plans to raze the Mid-Market Hollywood Billiards building at 1028 Market Street and construct a 13-story building with 186 dwelling units have been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department for review.  The existing two-story building has sat vacant and boarded-up since 2008. As designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, the... Read More »

Plans to raze the iconic Flax Art & Design store at 1699 Market Street in order to make way for a proposed nine-story building with 160 units of housing, 123 parking spaces, and 4,500 square feet of commercial space on the site have been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning... Read More »

Plans to raze the shuttered Home restaurant at the Corner of Market and Church and construct a seven-story building designed by Arquitectonica with 64 apartments, 15 parking spaces, and 4,700 square feet of retail space on the ground floor have been submitted to Planning for review. Having sat vacant... Read More »

As we first reported earlier this week, with Starbucks’ bid to occupy the existing retail space on the southwest corner of Market and Sanchez having been rejected last year, new plans for a six-story building with nine condos over a ground floor commercial space to rise on the 2201... Read More »

With San Francisco’s Planning Commission having rejected Starbucks’ bid to take over the one-story retail space at 2201 Market Street last year, the owner of the property has drafted a new plan for the parcel at the corner of Sanchez, with designs for a six-story building with nine condos... Read More »

The design for the proposed 8-story building to replace the adults-only Market Street Cinema incorporates boxed windows spanning multiple floors to create strong vertical lines across its Market Street façade and materials to match the context of the street. The Planning Department’s reaction to the preliminary design and a... Read More »

Having drafted plans to raze the Market Street Cinema at 1075 Market Street and construct an 8-story building the site of the former “adult entertainment complex, that would have been used by a site similar to Babestation” the San Francisco-based Encore Housing Opportunity Fund is in contract to buy... Read More »

As we first reported last month, plans to raze the two-story FastFrame building on the northwest corner of Market and Gough and build a 7-story building with 42 “single room occupancy” units over 1,500 square feet of ground floor retail have been submitted to Planning for review. While the... Read More »

Plans to raze the two-story commercial building occupied by Fastframe and a few offices on the northwest corner of Market and Gough and build a 7-story mixed-use building on the parcel has quietly been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department for review. The proposed 75-foot-high building to rise at... Read More »