Building Up on San Bruno Avenue
Built for a baker and wagon driver circa 1906, the single-story home at 2785 San Bruno Avenue currently measures roughly 1,300 square feet, not including an unauthorized 400-square-foot in-law unit…
Flipped for 3 Percent More Than in 2014!
Purchased for $1,080,000 in November 2014, the resale of the already remodeled Portola District home at 401 Cambridge Street has closed escrow after three months on the market with a…
A Remodeled San Francisco Home for Less than in 2014
Purchased for $750,000 in August 2005, the three-bedroom Portola District home at 401 Cambridge Street was foreclosed upon in early 2008 and fetched $499,878 in cash on the courthouse steps.…
A Replacement Grocery (Outlet) Is Budding In Portola
Grocery Outlet isn’t only planning to take over the long-shuttered grocery store site at 1245 South Van Ness in the Mission which Fresh & Easy was planning to occupy, but…
$10 Million Could Buy A City Block In San Francisco
After nearly two years on the market without any movement, and despite a neighborhood campaign to secure the land for community use, the asking price for the 2.2 acre Portola…
Fresh & Easy Shuttering Another San Francisco Store
The official list for Northern California has yet to be released, but the San Francisco Fresh & Easy at Silver and Somerset in the Portola neighborhood is one of the…
Before And After In Portola With A Foreclosure In-Between
The three-bedroom Portola District home at 401 Cambridge Street sold for $750,000 in August of 2005. In May of 2008, the property was foreclosed upon and re-sold for $499,878 in…
Portola District Nano Brewery Plans Fermenting
Fresh off a successful CrowdBrewed campaign to fund the purchase of a 100 gallon nano brewing system and four fermentors, the founders of Ferment Drink Repeat, a start-up “Nano Brewery,…
Burrows Street Pocket Park Project And Precedent For Improvement
A former dumping ground for trash and gathering spot for “vandals and illicit activity” along the Portola neighborhood’s commercial corridor, the cul-de-sac at the beginning of Burrows Street has been…
New Homes, Not A Park, Likely To Rise On Decaying Portola Block
Owned by the Garibaldi family since the 1920’s, while some neighbors had been hoping the Portola neighborhood land upon which the decaying greenhouses of the old University Mound Nursery sit…