As the city prepares to re-activate the long-troubled building, the vibrant mural that's adorned its facade for years has been painted over.

Over the next four years, Mayor Lee has pledged to end homelessness forever for 8,000 San Franciscans.

Kahn & Keville's auto shop (and its beloved billboard) may soon be replaced with eight stories of 100 percent affordable housing.

Those drenched by the season's first storm can pick up free, custom-designed backpacks this week and free lightly used clothing next week.

The lot would hold two buildings for formerly homeless San Franciscans, but first, the Board of Supervisors must approve the idea.

Mayor Lee is expected to approve funding for the 121-unit, all-affordable housing project this month.

The former McDonald's at Van Ness and Golden Gate will be demolished soon, but plans for developing the site are still pending.

New developments with less than 10 units are not required to provide affordable housing. But Planning isn’t letting two downtown developers off that easy.

After failing to attract a single tenant for its 42,000 square feet, the restored historic bank is hoping to house multiple tenants instead.

The 103-year-old theater turned strip club is being demolished for a 90-unit mixed-use residential building.

A nine-story, 100-foot residential building with ground-floor retail could come to 600 Van Ness, the former site of a two-story McDonald's.

Without a new storage space by February, a program that offers free furniture to formerly homeless families will be forced to shut down.

The USPS' lease at 101 Hyde has been extended to February at the earliest, as it continues to seek a new location in the Tenderloin. Its space will eventually be razed for 85 new residential units.

After three years of staving off eviction attempts with help from City Hall, the tenants have gotten new Ellis Act eviction notices.

The long-troubled single-room occupancy hotel at 12th & Market has been tapped as the next transitional homeless shelter.

The visualizations follow the Planning Department's first community workshop on rezoning the area around Market Street, Van Ness and Mission.

The city's second homeless-serving Navigation Center is headed to the corner of Market & 12th.

Shorenstein Residential hopes to give the city an 85-unit development as affordable housing, in lieu of 36 units onsite at a nearby development.

Plans were revised to align with the neighborhood's aesthetic and create 8 additional units.

Under the proposal, 25% of the units in the 520-foot-tall building would be priced below market rate.

The hotel is already fully booked for September; an October 1 reservation starts at $465/night.

Developers of a planned 100% affordable housing development at 500 Turk St. are seeking community input tonight.

A $1 million grant could fund a new café with food, drink, and ice cream from Bi-Rite.

By February, the 90-unit building is expected to be ready for occupancy.

SF Planning wants developers to do more to preserve historic visuals at the corner of Hyde and Eddy streets.

Developers of the nearly 100% affordable building hope to start construction in about 2 years.

Plans for San Francisco Conservatory of Music student housing include new apartments at existing rent-controlled rates for current residents of 200 Van Ness Ave.

Some residents are concerned about plans to house them during and after construction of new student housing for the SF Conservatory of Music.

The Tenderloin campus will be expanded and renovated, starting with a new building that will displace the college's Demonstration Gardens.

An 11-story condo complex could replace a venue that's housed several notable restaurants near City Hall.

A new 12-story building with ground-floor retail would include 2-story units with sidewalk stoops and underground parking.

The estimated cost of renovating the dilapidated property has doubled.

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If the theater's landlord prevails, it'll be curtains for the indie movie house.

A surface parking lot near the War Memorial Opera House could be converted into 197 new residential units, 29 of which would be permanently affordable.

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Culinary incubator La Cocina will oversee a food hall on the site of a future affordable housing project, set to begin construction in 2025.

The church will return to its original address in a shared space with condos.

Among the services the new gym hopes to offer: live DJs, concierge services, wifi and a restaurant.

"The Aviary" is offering purposefully low rents, in the hopes of attracting creative new restaurants to the neighborhood.

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The master plan meets the terms of a 2016 legal settlement with the City. The Planning Commission closed public comment on its proposed master plan last week.

More than five years after it was first proposed, the demolition of the long-vacant building is finally underway.

Demolition of the old KRON 4 headquarters on Van Ness Avenue is underway to make room for a new 13-story assisted living facility.

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