San Francisco - Real Estate & Development

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.

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.

Local environmental advocacy organizations have raised concerns about a development of a 350-unit apartment complex and 500-car parking garage on a tidal lagoon in Redwood City.

Even Juanita MORE! chimed in calling for more stories of housing above Pine Street’s historic Grubstake Diner, which will be demolished and rebuilt as an eight-story housing development.

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.

After being family-owned for nearly 100 years, the Market & Noe Center (2276-2288 Market St.) has been listed for sale for the eye-popping price of $17 million.

The neglected greenhouses at 770 Woolsey Street in the Portola District were once part of a thriving flower nursery over 100 years ago. However, they might be restored as an education center for urban farming after the land was offered to be sold to a local nonprofit.