San Francisco - Real Estate & Development

Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 Hotels are being handed over to lender, as Park Hotels & Resorts opts to cease payments on its $725 million loan and walk away from the SF market.

Explore the historic Sutro Tower and its $50 million worth of structural improvements, including the retroactive permit granted to remove its panels and the 'virtual tour' they will be producing in lieu of their plan to permit artists to paint them.

San Francisco's commercial real estate market is facing a downturn with significant discounts on major properties leading to questions about implications for smaller commercial real estate sales. Smaller property owners must adapt to changing market demands in order to stay competitive, with some property values expected to drop over 80%.

From ammunition depot to sports venue to giant porn production house, the San Francisco Armory has gone through several iterations in its 109-year history, and may soon be slated to return as an active event space. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, there are new plans to turn a portion of the innards of the giant, castle-like Armory in the Mission District into a jazz club and VIP lounge.

The SF Board of Supervisors just approved a $60 million low-income senior housing complex, coming to a former funeral home at Geary Boulevard and Sixth Avenue.

There are new images and plans just released for the possible 2,900-unit housing village and parks in what is currently the Stonestown Galleria parking lot, an ambitious proposal that would completely reimagine that section of the 19th Avenue corridor.

The Alexandria Theater at Geary and 18th Avenue has been an empty eyesore since 2004, but a reported new plan could make it as many as 76 units of housing.

A Bay Area developer is now floating plans to bulldoze a small, older shopping strip across from the southern portion of UC Berkeley, as well as a couple of apartment buildings, to make way for a large residential project.

A large transit-centered development just got the green light to move ahead on a 28-acre site at Tanforan Avenue near the San Bruno BART Station, straddling both South San Francisco and San Bruno.

Nearly six years after receiving approval, a former real estate office at 2201 Market St. (at Sanchez) will be demolished and replaced with a six-story mixed-use building.

This vacant lot has been a sanctioned tent encampment, and at one point was slated to be a meth sobering center, but now will get a dignified happy outcome as 70 units of affordable housing for low-income and homeless families.

A new affordable housing complex at 16th and Shotwell Streets drew the likes of Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, as Casa Adelante will be home to more than 300 low-income people, plus provide on-site childcare and a rooftop farm.

City Hall has approved plans to demolish the Phoenix Irish Pub building on Valencia Street, and from the wording of the documents, it does not seem the Phoenix will rise from those ashes.

The city attorney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to four construction companies who are not only allegedly performing work without permits, but have been kicking up clouds of hazardous dust for more than a year.

A developer is seeking approval to demolish the building at 2051 Market Street that previously housed Castro's sex club and sauna Eros.

A private high school on the border of Pacific Heights and Laurel Heights is planning for a big addition to the already scattered campus, and that means a strip mall will have to be bulldozed.

The Castro's new 12-room boutique hotel, the Hotel Castro (4230 18th St.), is set to open just in time for New Year's Eve.

The fate of a 46th Avenue home that boldly goes where no one has gone before is going to probate court, as a dispute over ownership could blow up the enterprise.

Last week the Planning Commission unanimously approved the demolition and redevelopment of 240-250 Church Street, which previously housed 24-hour diner Sparky's, and continues to house decade-old bakery Thorough Bread and Pastry.

The SF Board of Supervisors gave the final green light to the Grubstake Diner’s six-year quest to rebuild with a towering condo complex on top, denying the neighboring condo residents’ appeal over shadows and historical resources.

In a quick rubber-stamp vote with no discussion, the supervisors approved the $87 million purchase of the Panoramic, adding 160 units of supportive housing stock.

The historic 99-year-old Bank of America building at the corner of Castro and Market streets has been listed for sale for an undisclosed price.

The easy part was approving the purchase of the Mission Inn for transitional housing for the homeless, but two of the three other similar projects face furious neighborhood opposition.

One of only two hotels in Japantown, the Kimpton Buchanan Hotel, has been identified as one of four properties around SF that the city hopes to purchase by the end of the year to turn into permanent homeless housing, but neighbors are pushing back.

Can an affordable housing nonprofit sell off land bought with taxpayer dollars if they’re not using the land? That dispute is playing out in Diamond Heights.