Building Up Berkeley: “Higby” Is Breaking Ground
Gerding Edlen and the city of Berkeley will hold a ceremonial ground breaking for “Higby” this afternoon, a mixed-use development with 98 residential units and 6,500 square feet of ground…
Planning To Chop The Clock Tower From Atop 200 California Street
The six-story building at the corner of California and Front was built as the headquarters for Home Savings of America in 1988, replacing a three-story building which had sat on…
Kaiser’s Modern Mission Bay Building Slated For 2016 Opening
Speaking of Kaiser Permanente’s moves in San Francisco, the development of Kaiser’s nine-story Mission Bay Medical Office Building at 1600 Owens Street is now scheduled to be finished in late…
Kaiser Permanente’s Geary Campus Expansion Plan And Design
As we first reported earlier this year, while the southwest corner of Geary and Divisadero is in the process of being landscaped with planters for trees, a 75,000 square foot…
Zoned For 400 Feet In Height, 200 Feet Proposed For 300 California
The eight-story building at 300 California Street was constructed in 1946, rising 112 feet in height with 77 parking spaces for autos in an underground garage below. A plan to…
Dorms For Developers In San Francisco?
While it was originally reported that Build Inc. was planning to build around 120 rental units on the half-acre SoMa parking lot which fronts 12th, Norfolk and Harrison Streets, plans…
More Height and Housing in the Mission and Planning’s Thoughts
Purchased for $1,300,000 three months ago, plans to demolish the auto repair shop at 1900 Mission Street on the corner of 15th and construct a six-story building with nine dwelling…
The Designs For Apple’s Proposed Union Square Store Plaza
As part of the design for Apple’s proposed flagship store on Union Square, the Grand Hyatt Hotel Plaza between the existing Levi’s Store and Grand Hyatt Hotel will be reconfigured.…
High Speed Rail Ruling Threatens Transbay Terminal Plan As Well
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny has ruled that California’s High Speed Rail Authority cannot access the $9 billion in bonds that voters had approved for the HSR project back…
Seeing Red And Green At 285 San Anselmo Avenue
Sitting on a near half-acre lot, the 6,700 square foot St. Francis Wood home at 285 San Anselmo Avenue was originally designed by Samuel Lightner Hyman and Abraham Appleton. The…