SF’s First Whole Foods 365 Closer to Reality
As we first reported a couple weeks ago, plans to convert the shuttered Lombardi Sports building at 1600 Jackson Street, at the corner of Polk, into San Francisco’s first Whole…
San Francisco’s First Whole Foods 365 Slated for Approval
In the works since 2016 and having survived a proposed formula retail ban, plans to convert the shuttered Lombardi Sports building at 1600 Jackson Street, at the corner of Polk,…
Philz Sets Its Sights on Polk Street
Philz Coffee is planning to take over the former Russian Hill Bookstore storefront at 2230 Polk Street which has been vacant for five months. As proposed, while the interior of…
Bad News for Hemlock as Plans for Development Move Forward
Plans to level the three-story building which stretches from Hemlock to Sutter, on the west side of Polk Street, and develop a six-story building with 54 apartments averaging around 500…
A Clinical Addition, Micro Units and Potential Setback on Polk
North East Medical Services (NEMS), a non-profit community health center, is planning to build a new medical clinic at 650 Polk Street by adding four new stories atop the existing…
Polk Street Holdout Home Poised for Redevelopment
Built in 1914, the little single-family home at 2815 Polk Street has been boarded up for years, having been owned by an out of towner and long a target for…
Potential for Whole Foods and Formula Retail on Polk Remains
While San Francisco’s Planning Department had recommended the City’s Planning Commission support a modified prohibition on new Formula Retail establishments along the Polk Street corridor, with an exception for developments…
Prohibition on Formula Retail Likely for Polk, but with a Big Twist
With the neighborhood fight over the former Lombardi Sports site at 1600 Jackson Street having reached a fevered pitch, and battle lines having been drawn over a proposed Whole Foods…
Polk Street Rising: The Refined Plans for a Prominent Corner Parcel
The Polk Street Boxing Gym has been shuttered. The Out of The Closet Thrift Store and adjacent Fashion Exchange should soon follow suit. And if approved at the end of…
Polk Street Rising: Designs For Prominent Corner Parcel
The designs for a seven-story Polk Gulch building with around 50 condos over four ground floor retail spaces to rise on the southeast corner of Polk and California are working…