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Conversion of Iconic Building Even Closer to Reality

September 3, 2021

As we outlined earlier this year: The plans for redeveloping the iconic I. Magnin/Macy’s Building on the southwest corner of Geary and Stockton, across from Union Square, have been refined…

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Conversion of Iconic Union Square Building Closer to Reality

May 13, 2021

The plans for redeveloping the iconic I. Magnin/Macy’s Building on the southwest corner of Geary and Stockton, across from Union Square, have been refined and newly rendered by Handel Architects.…

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Plans to Redevelop the Historic Barneys Building

September 4, 2020

With Barneys New York having declared bankruptcy and shuttered its flagship Union Square store at 77 O’Farrell Street (a.k.a. 48 Stockton) that it had occupied since 2006, plans to redevelop…

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Plans for Condos Atop Iconic Union Square Building Progress

June 25, 2020

As we first revealed earlier this year, plans to redevelop the iconic I. Magnin/Macy’s Building on the southwest corner of Geary and Stockton, across from Union Square, were in the…

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Plans for Condos Atop Iconic Union Square Building (And More)

January 16, 2020

Purchased from Macy’s for $250 million early last year, plans to redevelop the iconic I. Magnin Building on the southwest corner of Geary and Stockton, across from Union Square, have…

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Plans for Another Union Square Infill Hotel

August 20, 2018

Plans to level the two-story retail and Barbizon studio building at 420 Sutter Street, across from the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, are in the works. And as envisioned by Stanton…

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Redevelopment of Macy’s Men’s Store Building Slated for Approval

April 5, 2018

In the works since the end of 2016, as we first reported at the time, plans to strip the concrete and travertine skin from the exterior of the Macy’s Men’s…

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Boutique Union Square Infill Hotel Closer to Reality

January 18, 2018

Approved for development back in 2001 but then waylaid by the dotcom collapse, followed by a decline in tourism after 9/11 and then by “the collapse of the housing market…

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Proposed Makeover of the Macy’s Men’s Store Building Revealed

October 11, 2017

As envisioned by Morgan Stanley and designed by Gensler, the solid concrete and travertine skin of the Macy’s Men’s Store building at 120 Stockton Street will be replaced with a…

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Landmark Union Square Retailer Lands a New Home

September 13, 2017

While Britex Fabrics has operated out of its iconic four-story space at 146 Geary Street since 1952, the family that founded and operates the store sold the Union Square building…

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Conversion of Iconic Building Even Closer to Reality

Conversion of Iconic Union Square Building Closer to Reality

Plans to Redevelop the Historic Barneys Building

Plans for Condos Atop Iconic Union Square Building Progress

Plans for Condos Atop Iconic Union Square Building (And More)

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