REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
Financial District

They’re basically building a 200-room glass hotel on top of the current Cort Furniture brick facade at Battery and Merchant Streets, but nary a Planning Department permit has been granted for the new plan.

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.

We found out how much new neighbors paid and asked about potential ground-floor tenants.

Here's what $3,500 will get you on an apartment rental in the Financial District.

Median rents for a 1-bedroom in the Financial District are hovering around $3,635 — compared to a $3,300 average for San Francisco.

A garage with an average 53 percent occupancy “may not be the highest and best use of the space,” said the agency.