Western SoMa Infill Project Closer to Reality but on Shaky Ground
While the Planning Commission hearing for the proposed 24-unit building to rise up to six stories in height at 1228 Folsom Street has been delayed until the first week of…
Redevelopment of Prominent SoMa Corner Closer to Reality
It was nearly twenty years ago that San Francisco’s Planning Department first authorized the theoretical conversion of the gas station parcel on northeast corner of Howard and 9th Street which…
Sixth Street Rising: Insert Eight or Nine Stories Here
Approved for a 5-story building with 36 condos over a ground floor of commercial space back in 2009, but then waylaid by a stated inability to secure financing, new plans…
Infilling Western SoMa
Plans to level the two-story Auto Trust Services building at 255 Shipley Street have been drafted. And as proposed, a modern four-story building designed by Natoma Architects will rise across…
Insert Eight Stories Here
A developer recently met with San Francisco’s Planning Department to discuss the potential for an eight-story building with up to 22 condos to rise behind the existing façade of the…
Folsom Street Rising: Six Stories in Western SoMa Closer to Reality
The Planning Commission hearing for a proposed 24-unit building to rise up to six stories in height at 1228 Folsom Street has been slated for October 13. As we first…
Plans for High-End SRO Units on Howard Will Need to Be Revised
In the works since 2006, plans to raze the single-story appliance parts store at 1450 Howard Street, across the street from the Saint Joseph’s Church which is undergoing a high-tech…
Growing Pains in Western SoMa
An application to legally change the use of the Western SoMa building at 1040 Bryant Street from an 18,000-square-foot distribution plant for meat to a “non-retail plant nursery” was approved…
Smog Queen Building on the Market in SoMa
With three years left on Smog Queen’s lease at under $4,000 per month, the 2,500-square-foot Western SoMa building at 160 10th Street is now on the market as an “owner/user…
Plans for Decade-Old Pit on Mission to Become Condos
A pit in the ground since 2006, when a two-story brick building on the eastern third of the 1145 Mission Street site was illegally demolished and approved plans to expand…