As we outlined back in the fourth quarter of 2021: Having been in and out of contract a handful of times over the past couple of years, a sale of the former used car lot turned Firepie site on the northeast corner of Valencia and Cesar Chavez, which is... Read More »

While originally envisioned as a four-story development that would rise up to 45 feet in height on the northwest corner of 26th and Shotwell and yield 22 apartments over 6,600 square feet of ground floor commercial space on the B&W Automotive Service Center site, a density bonus for the... Read More »

As designed by PYATOK Architects for the Friendship House Association of American Indians, a modern six-story building dubbed the “Village SF” is proposed to rise up to 79 feet in height on the mostly vacant lot adjacent to the existing Friendship House building at 56 Julian Avenue in the... Read More »

Having been undermined by advocates back in 2016, Lennar’s approved plans for a 157-unit development to rise up to six stories in height at 1515 South Van Ness Avenue, on the shuttered McMillan Electric Company building and parking lot site, were appealed and waylaid. Subsequently acquired by the City... Read More »

Purchased for $711,000 in November of 2013, the one-bedroom unit #17 at 350 Alabama Street, a “light-filled oasis with views to the west and Twin Peaks” in the “vibrant and hip Inner Mission,” resold for $780,000 in December of 2014, representing appreciation of 9.7 percent in just over a... Read More »

Purchased for $2.6 million in late 2014, the two-level, 2,215-square-foot Mission District condo at 859 Alabama Street, which “epitomizes sophisticated San Francisco city living and a rare opportunity to own an architecturally significant home,” returned to the market listed for $2.75 million in early 2016 and ended up... Read More »

As we first revealed earlier this year, the single-story House of Brakes building/garage on the southeast corner of 24th Street and South Van Ness, a rather nondescript concrete structure above which the iconic Carnaval (a.k.a. Golden Dreams of the Mission) mural was painted and subsequently restored on the building... Read More »

Having been entitled last month, the supersized plans for a 50-unit development to rise up to 65 feet in height on the shuttered Mission District garage site at 1721 15th Street has now joined the growing list of approved developments across the city for which a buyer is being... Read More »

While plans to raze the shuttered Schwarz/Home/Engelhart sausage outlet at 1726-1730 Mission Street and develop a six-story building upon the Mission District site were approved back in 2017, and building permits for the project were approved and issued the next year, the ground has yet to be broken. As... Read More »

The refined plans for a six-story building with 18 condos over a ground floor commercial space to rise on the Mission District parcel at 2955 Mission Street, upon which a two-story, mixed-use building currently stands, is slated to be approved by the City next week. While originally slated for... Read More »