5800 Third Street Scoop: Sales, Restaurants, And Fresh & Easy Soon
San Francisco’s first Fresh & Easy should be open by April (if not March) 2011 and a Bayview outpost of Limon and a Crossroads Café should soon follow along with…
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The Clouds Have Almost Cleared From Over The Oriental Warehouse
While a bit of litigation (“your basic ‘construction defects’ issues such as water intrusion”) has been hanging over the units at The Oriental Warehouse (650 Delancey), a plugged-in tipster reports…
Keep An Eye Out For A Craig Steely On That Other Craig’s List…
The listing for half of the Craig Steely redesigned “Xiao-Yen’s House” at 3794 16th Street has been withdrawn from the MLS without a reported sale. We’ll be keeping an eye…
Before And After And Behind The Green Door Of 2140 Bush Street #3
The kitchen of 2140 Bush Street #3 before (above) and the kitchen after (below). The living room before (above) and the living room after (below). The price before (March 2007):…
The Modern Bath Behind A Period Façade At 2705 Buchanan
With a recently remodeled modern bath and “extensive seismic retrofitting” (estimated for the purposes of permitting at $94,600) soon after being purchased for $3,350,000 in October 2005, the sale of…
Pagoda Theater Preview (And Signs Of Progress All Around)
In addition to the proposed rehabilitation and expansion of David Ireland’s 500 Capp Street, and a vote on the proposed 48-unit development at 1645 Pacific, the long shuttered North Beach…
A Two At Eight Twenty-Nine Folsom Closes For Close To Six
Having reduced prices by around 25 percent at the end of January (at which point two-bedrooms with parking were priced from $699,000), the sale of 829 Folsom #214 closed escrow…
The Margarido House Sells “At Asking” (And 38% Below Original List)
Two weeks shy of a year on the market, the sale of the “Margarido House” over at 5950 Margarido Drive in Oakland appears to have closed escrow on October 12…
T-Minus Two Days (And A Decade In The Making) For Lowe’s In SF
After an eight year battle to build a Home Depot on the former Goodman Lumber site, Lowe’s swooped in and signed a lease. And now a year and a half…
Actual San Francisco Foreclosures Flat QOQ (Up 0.6% YOY)
Bay Area Notices of Default (NODs) fell 30.5% on a year-over-year basis in the third quarter of 2010, down 20.4% in San Francisco proper (from 607 to 483). At the…