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Tower That Supervisors “Killed” Slated for Approval, But…

Tower That Supervisors “Killed” Slated for Approval, But…

As we outlined last year: While the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed 27-story, 495-unit infill tower to rise on Nordstrom’s underdeveloped parking lot parcel at 469 Stevenson Street was certified by San Francisco’s Planning Commission in July of 2021, the certification was subsequently appealed and overturned... Read More »

Timing for Hundreds of Approved Units Pushed Back, Again

Timing for Hundreds of Approved Units Pushed Back, Again

As we outlined back in 2019: Speaking of previously approved projects that have yet to break ground, the entitlements for the 230-unit development to rise at 667 Folsom Street are slated to expire in two months time and building permits for the project have yet to be requested. With... Read More »

Big Plans for a Bernal Heights Infill Project in Play

Big Plans for a Bernal Heights Infill Project in Play

As designed by Kerman Morris Architects and rendered below, plans for two new condos to rise on the undeveloped Bernal Heights lot at 1513 York Street have been drafted, but that’s not all. In addition to the duplex fronting the street, plans for another four duplex buildings to rise... Read More »

Redevelopment of “Junky” Nob Hill Theater Closer to Reality

Redevelopment of “Junky” Nob Hill Theater Closer to Reality

Purchased by a doctor for $2.7 million in 2018 and subsequently shuttered, the revised plans for redeveloping the iconic Nob Hill “Touch our Junk” Theater at 729 Bush Street, which had operated as a gay night club and male porn venue for 50 years, were conditionally approved last month.... Read More »

Price for Mission District Infill Site Drops

Price for Mission District Infill Site Drops

As we outlined back in the fourth quarter of 2021: Having been in and out of contract a handful of times over the past couple of years, a sale of the former used car lot turned Firepie site on the northeast corner of Valencia and Cesar Chavez, which is... Read More »

Plans for Another Big Polk Gulch Infill Project on the Boards

Plans for Another Big Polk Gulch Infill Project on the Boards

Plans to raze the two-story, 15,000-square-foot office building at 1460-1462 Pine Street are in the works. And as proposed, a 9-story building designed by RG-Architecture would rise up to 85 feet in height on the Polk Gulch site. As proposed, the 1462 Pine Street project would yield 104 residential... Read More »

Re-Revised Plans for Building Up on Geary Closer to Reality

Re-Revised Plans for Building Up on Geary Closer to Reality

As we outlined a few years ago, there was a fundamental problem with the proposed plans for a bonus-sized, 9-story development of “group housing” units to rise up to 89 feet in height upon the Grand Hot Pot Lounge building’s parcel at 3565 Geary Boulevard. And in fact, said... Read More »

Bonus Plans for Lower Potrero Hill Parking Lot Closer to Reality

Bonus Plans for Lower Potrero Hill Parking Lot Closer to Reality

Plans for a 5-story, 48-unit apartment building to rise on the odd-shaped Regents Cab Company parking lot parcel at 98 Pennsylvania Avenue in Lower Potrero Hill were approved back in 2016 and building permits for the project were secured and issued in December of 2018, as we outlined a... Read More »

Supersized Western SoMa Infill Development on the Boards

Supersized Western SoMa Infill Development on the Boards

Acquired for $3.25 million last year, plans for a supersized 9-story building to rise on the Western SoMA parking lot parcel on the southwest corner of Folsom and 10th Street, adjacent to Sextant Coffee Roasters, have been drawn. While the corner parcel is currently only zoned for development up... Read More »

Bonus Plans for Mission District Development Closer to Reality

Bonus Plans for Mission District Development Closer to Reality

While originally envisioned as a four-story development that would rise up to 45 feet in height on the northwest corner of 26th and Shotwell and yield 22 apartments over 6,600 square feet of ground floor commercial space on the B&W Automotive Service Center site, a density bonus for the... Read More »