San Francisco - Real Estate & Development
San Francisco Ingleside Parkside West Portal
Check out the new Stonestown village plans, proposed for what’s now just a giant mall parking lot
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.
San Francisco
Developer wants to demolish retail strip near UC Berkeley and replace it with 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.
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
Castro real estate office set to be demolished and replaced with 6-story, 14-unit condo building [Updated]
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.
San Francisco Tenderloin
Beleaguered 180 Jones site will rise as affordable housing for families
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.
San Francisco Mission
Nancy Pelosi on hand for grand opening of 143-unit affordable housing complex in the Mission
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.
San Francisco Bayview
Hazardous dust clouds in Bayview blamed on unpermitted construction activities
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.
San Francisco Laurel Heights Pacific Heights
Elite SF school submits plans for eye-catching expansion in Pacific Heights
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.
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle Mission
Planning Commission approves 7-story housing complex on former Sparky's Diner
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.
San Francisco
Eight-story condo project above Grubstake is a go, after neighbors’ appeal is denied
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.
San Francisco Japantown
Community pushback succeeds in slowing city effort to convert Japantown hotel into homeless housing
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.
San Francisco Polk
Condo project on Grubstake site appealed by next-door neighbor condo owners
The eight-story, 21-unit residential building being planned on the site of the historic Grubstake Diner (1525 Pine Street) has hit another hurdle this week, as we learn that an appeal has been filed opposing the project.
San Francisco Portola
Developer fined $1.2 million for cramming 29 units into 10-unit Portola building
After digging into a curiously unreported $180,000 loan to a building inspector, the SF City Attorney has won a $1.2 million settlement from a developer who may have benefited from DBI looking the other way.