San Francisco - Real Estate & Development
San Francisco Union Square
Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 Hotels Handed Over to Lender as Owner Bails Out of SF Market
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.
San Francisco
Sutro Tower Removes Steel Panels, Forgoes Permitting Artists to Paint Them
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 Financial District
Commercial real estate in SF grapples with 350 California's expected price drop of over 80%
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%.
San Francisco
The SF Armory, aka the former 'Kink Castle', may return as concert/event venue with added jazz club
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.
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.