While the Mayor’s Office has agreed to spend a potential record-setting amount to purchase a Mission District development site in order to build 72 units of affordable housing, the City is pois...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2015/07/housing-policy-hypocrisy-in-san-francisco.html
Back in 1940, four single-story industrial buildings were built upon 17 acres in west Bayview, a total of just under 450,000 square feet of building space which is currently 96 percent leased and...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2014/03/17acres_of_opportunity_in_san_francisco_and_then_some.html
Rather than representing some ubermodern Sleeper-inspired design, the massings for the proposed SoMa development to rise on the corner of 9th and Howard are simply rendered to provide a sense of ...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2014/03/the_massings_for_a_not_so_massive_development_by_design.html
With thousands of units under development or already opening their doors along Market Street, and “the impossibly hip Hayes Valley, Mission, and Noe Valley encroaching on all sides,” a reader...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2013/11/is_the_identity_of_the_castro_being_threatened.html
With voters in San Francisco having overturned the approved plans and increased height for the development of the 8 Washington Street site above and some bad information making the rounds, a rath...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2013/11/the_fate_of_8_washington_street_what_happens_now.html
On the agenda for San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee this afternoon, a hearing to begin planning the filling of the Geary underpass between Webster and Steiner Streets,...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2013/09/planning_to_fill_the_geary_underpass_and_a_cranky_citiz.html
The proposed Warriors Arena to built upon San Francisco’s Pier 30-32 isn’t a vanity project, it’s a shrewd financial move on the part of the team’s ownership. As a plugged-in reader notes...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2013/08/its_not_about_vanity_its_about_valuation.html
With a pressing need to support the City’s projected job growth and continued economic development, San Francisco’s Planning Department has spent the past two years developing the growth plan...
Under the framework of the plans for the New Mission Theater, we promote a plugged-in reader’s comment to an editorial on “The New Mission,” not only in terms of the theater, but also the n...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2012/09/the_new_mission_dont_fear_the_multiplex_or_change.html
A little while back the owners and operators of the Café in the Castro purchased the Rawhide II club building at 280 Seventh Street, once “the largest and…only Country Western Dancing club i...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2012/04/the_280_seventh_street_scoop_and_evolving_neighborhood.html
Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos came out swinging today against the proposed and Planning approved 8 Washington Street development. From Agnos’ open forum letter published in the Chronicle...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2012/04/art_agnos_open_opposition_to_the_development_of_8_washi.html
Listed for $1,100,000 last month, the 1,810 square foot Albert Lanier designed home at 4378 Cesar Chavez quickly went into contract. As a plugged-in reader soon reported, “The sign in the Herth...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2011/12/but_it_would_have_been_50_percent_over_had_they_priced.html
It’s time for a (slightly edited) guest editorial from a plugged-in reader: I am a homeowner in SF’s 11th political district. The neighborhoods in my district have the potential to be charmin...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2011/08/simply_lip_service_for_green_landscaping_in_san_francis.html
They’ve been called names. And the planting of palm trees in San Francisco can be a polarizing issue. An issue that might be short lived, for as a plugged-in reader editorializes and educates: ...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2011/06/for_the_love_or_hate_of_palms_in_san_francisco.html
It’s a guest editorial from Rincon Hill resident Jamie Whitaker related to yesterday’s Board of Supervisors’ approval of $1,844,273 in grants from the SOMA Community Stabilization Fund (fun...
https://socketsite.com/archives/2010/04/guest_editorial_redonkulous_rincon_hill_development_fee.html