As we outlined in the third quarter of last year: Shuttered back in 1999, the old Schlage Lock factory and Southern Pacific Railyard parcel along Bayshore Boulevard, near the heart of Visitacion Valley, was leveled 10 years later in order to clear the way for a proposed 20-acre transit... Read More »

Shuttered back in 1999, the old Schlage Lock factory and Southern Pacific Railyard parcel along Bayshore Boulevard, near the heart of Visitacion Valley, was leveled 10 years later in order to clear the way for a proposed 20-acre transit village to rise. As approved back in 2014, at which... Read More »

Martin Building Company has been working on plans to squeeze over 200 new apartments and 150 parking spaces on the sliver of Visitacion Valley land that sits between the massive redevelopment of the Schlage Lock factory site and the Bayshore Caltrain station and tracks to the east. The proposed Blanken... Read More »

According to San Francisco’s Office of Economic Analysis, with 1,268 condos and 411 rental units, the 1,679 unit Schlage Lock Project will increase the total number of for-sale units in San Francisco by 1.0 percent and increase the number of rental units by 0.2 percent once the development is... Read More »

The details of Urban Paragon’s revised plans for redeveloping the former Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley are starting to emerge. The exact number of proposed residential units to rise is now 1,679 (up from 1,250) while the amount of retail space has dropped from 105,000 to 46,700 square... Read More »

The old Schlage Lock factory along Bayshore Boulevard closed in 1999, was left derelict for a decade, and was finally razed in 2009 in order to make way for a 20-acre transit village to rise. Waylaid by the Great Recession and Governor Jerry Brown’s shuttering of local redevelopment agencies... Read More »

As the former Schlage Lock Factory site looked in April above, as it looks today below. And another update on the site in specific, and Visitacion Valley redevelopment in general, by way of a plugged-in tipster: Except for the original office building (which will be retrofitted and ultimately adapted... Read More »