The Vision For San Francisco’s Fourth And King Street Railyard
At the heart of the Mayor’s proposal to tear down the end of I-280 in San Francisco is the redevelopment of the Caltrain railyard between SoMa and Mission Bay, the…
Conflicting Plans For The Corner Of Brannan And Fifth
The draft Western SoMa Community Plan which was approved by the Planning Commission this past December and will be before the Board of Supervisors in early 2013 would rezone the…
A Bold Plan To Tear Down I-280 North Of 16th Street In San Francisco
With a conceptual plan to take down I-280 north of 16th Street in San Francisco, eliminating the ramps at Sixth and Brannan and at Fourth and King and building a…
Three Thousand Square Feet And Zero Dollars To Heat?
The Twin Peaks home at 10 Portola Drive now boasts three bedrooms, three and one-half baths and almost three thousand square feet of living space. And thanks to a 3kW…
A Step Forward For 14 Stories And 117 Units At Mission And 10th
In contract since early last year, the 1415 Mission Street site on which a 14-story building designed by Heller Manus is approved to rise has sold to the Martin Building…
A Coppola’s Former Home And Living Room Mural
The living room mural within 832 Diamond Street was commissioned by the late August Coppola, former Dean of Creative Arts at San Francisco State, brother of Francis Ford Coppola, and…
Have San Francisco Rents Hit A Real Wall?
Average apartment rents in San Francisco were relatively unchanged in the fourth quarter of 2012 while rents actually dropped 1.4 percent in the South Bay according to the latest RealFacts…
If The Median Price Is Way Up, Why Wasn’t The Value On Valley?
On the market at the end of 2006 asking $2,879,000, at which point it was the most expensive single-family home actively listed for sale in Noe Valley, the four-bedroom home…
The 43,580 New Units In San Francisco’s Current Housing Pipeline
In 2011, less than a hundred market rate housing units came to the market in San Francisco. Including subsidized housing and accounting for units lost through demolition, merger or the…
San Francisco’s Historic <1 Percent and Eleven Landmark Districts
Since 1967, roughly 260 individual structures have been designated as San Francisco Landmarks. And since 1972, eleven Landmark Districts have been designated throughout the City, including 85 city blocks and…