Having been expanded to include the Safeway parcel and parking lot at 4950 Mission Street, in addition to the Valente Marini Perata Funeral home parcel at 4840 Mission, the proposed development to rise up to seven stories in height across the Excelsior District site would now yield a total... Read More »

In the works for over a decade, the approved plans to completely overhaul and supersize the outdated Sunnyside Safeway at 625 Monterey Boulevard have been scrapped. Instead, the existing store will simply be renovated and “upgraded” in place, possibly without ever closing its doors. The original plans, which would... Read More »

Plans to convert the former Temescal Safeway and A&F auto parts store at 490 40th Street in Oakland into 19 live-work lofts have been drafted and submitted to the city’s Planning Department for review. And if approved, the proposed plans for the site, which is a block from the... Read More »

In the works for over seven years, the plans to overhaul and supersize the outdated Sunnyside Safeway at 625 Monterey Boulevard could finally be approved this week.  As proposed, the store will be expanded from 19,000 to 45,000 square feet, building across the store’s existing surface parking lot and... Read More »

The recycling center at Church and Market which has been operating on the eastern corner of Safeway’s Market Street parcel for nearly three decades has been issued an eviction notice. According to the Haighteration report and Safeway spokesperson Wendy Gutsall, the reason for the eviction is twofold: “First, the... Read More »

In their draft Market-Octavia Neighborhood Plan, San Francisco’s Planning Department identified the Market Street Safeway site bounded by Market, Church and Duboce Streets as “the single largest opportunity site outside of the Central Freeway parcels,” proffering Planning Policy 6.1.2 to encourage its development. The triangular block is... Read More »

The site of the old San Francisco Seals Stadium until 1959 and currently home to a 227,000-square-foot strip mall anchored by a 60,000-square-foot Safeway, the Potrero Center at 2300 16th Street has been put up for sale. “Under the Eastern Neighborhoods rezoning, the nine-acre site at 2300 16th St.... Read More »