Civic Center
Bay Area Tech Giants Bring Office Leasing Home as Market Value Jumps 28%
Bay Area-headquartered public companies have gained 28 percent in market value over the past year and are steering a growing share of their...
The Registry Ranks: SF Will Convert Fewer Than 1,000 Office Units to Housing by 2030. Here’s Where They’ll Be.
San Francisco now has a 30-year tax-increment district, transfer-tax and fee waivers, and a recovering office market. It also has only about four...
Plant Construction Tops Out New Seismic Core in UC Law SF’s $230MM Overhaul of Historic 100 McAllister Tower
Plant Construction and its project partners have topped out a new reinforced concrete core threaded up through UC Law SF's 28-story tower at...
CMBS Investors Take Total Loss on $48MM Loan as 103,000 SQFT of San Francisco’s 1155 Market Sells for $8MM
The $48 million CMBS loan on the lower eight floors of 1155 Market Street has been liquidated with nothing returned to principal, after...
Mission Bay Office Asking Rents Hit Record $130.90 Per SQFT as SOMA Rates Jump 32% Year Over Year
San Francisco office landlords are pricing their remaining large blocks like a seller's market again, driving Mission Bay/China Basin asking rents to a...
Crescent Heights Wins Revised Approval for 921-Unit, 820-Foot Tower at 10 South Van Ness
San Francisco's Planning Commission trimmed Crescent Heights' approved unit count from 1,019 to 921 at the 820-foot 10 South Van Ness tower, even...
Manna Capital Stacks State Housing Laws for 40-Story, 288-Unit Tower in San Francisco
Chicago-based Manna Capital is wagering that California's density bonus law and SB 330 can turn a 0.2-acre surface parking lot at Eighth and...
STG Group Buys Eight Floors of San Francisco’s 1155 Market for $8MM, a Decade After $80MM Peak
A Petaluma value-add investor has taken control of the troubled lower half of 1155 Market Street for a fraction of its boom-era worth,...
Emerald Fund, SDG File Permits to Convert 150 Hayes Street Into 104 Apartments in San Francisco
Emerald Fund and SDG have filed building permits to convert a long-vacant 1968 office block a block from City Hall into 104 apartments,...
San Jose Approves Urban Catalyst’s 645-Unit Icon/Echo Project on Former Chevron Site
A scaled-back version of Urban Catalyst's long-planned Icon/Echo development in the city's Civic Center neighborhood was approved during a San Jose Planning Director...
San Francisco’s Office-to-Housing Pipeline Clears 300 Units as AI Rebound Squeezes Conversion Candidates
After a decade with almost nothing to show, San Francisco is set to receive applications for three office-to-residential conversions totaling more than 300...
Muni’s Weekend Ridership Tops Pre-Pandemic Levels, Signaling Downtown San Francisco’s Turn
San Francisco's transit numbers just cleared a psychological threshold that landlords and civic boosters have been chasing for five years, with weekend Muni...
