Whole Foods Inks a Lease for Shuttered Best Buy Site, But…
It’s true, Whole Foods has inked a lease for the recently shuttered Best Buy location in the City Center mall at Geary and Masonic. But a formal application to allow…
Plans to Move Historic Victorian and Convert Mortuary Proceed
The formal application to add a fourth story and rear addition to the Bryant Mortuary at 635 Fulton Street and convert the historic Hayes Valley structure into a residential building…
New Home Sales in the U.S. Jump with Inventory at an 8-Year High
Having dropped 9.4 percent over the previous two months, the seasonally adjusted rate of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 18.9 percent in September to an annual rate…
SF and Oakland Rents Down, Relative Premium Up
Following the trend we first noticed forming twelve months ago, asking rents for apartments in San Francisco and Oakland have dropped over the past year. In fact, based on a…
Bonus Height Building Slated for Approval in Berkeley
As proposed and slated for approval from Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments Board on Thursday, October 26, the two single-story buildings on a single parcel at 1717 University Avenue will be razed…
Timing for Massive India Basin Development Pushed Back
As we wrote when the Draft Environmental Impact Report for Build Inc’s massive India Basin project, a proposed development which could yield over 1,200 units of housing, 1,800 parking spaces…
Contentious Development Redesigned and Now in Play
While forced to be redesigned in order to minimize its projected future shadow following a semi-successful challenge initiated by the owner of Zeitgeist across the street, the contentious plans for…
Bigger Plans for Low-Slung Berkeley Shopping Center Site
Originally pitched as a potential five-story project, as we first reported at the time, Landmark Properties is pushing forward with plans for an eight-story building to rise up to 86…
Accusations of Fraud and New Mansion Fight
Having hit the market listed as an “impeccable & elegant home” with “partial views and surrounding gardens” for $11.5 million in April of 2015, the remodeled 6,100-square-foot home at 2939…
Record Employment in San Francisco and around the Bay
The number of people living in the city of San Francisco with a job jumped by 6,700 in September to a record 555,200, pushing the unemployment rate back down to…