The Liverpool Lil’s neighborhood pub (2942 Lyon Street) suffered a fire April 29 that was soon contained by the San Francisco Fire Department, though not before the two-alarm... Read More
Plans for marijuana dispensary The Apothecarium’s second San Francisco location have been much talked-about in the Marina; the proposed location is 2414 Lombard, which would ... Read More
Last fall, neighbors in Dolores Park complained that Facebook titan Mark Zuckerberg had hired people to save parking places for construction workers who were working on his home th... Read More
With many property owners in the city either undergoing mandatory seismic retrofits or planning and dreading them, the city has thrown them a possible bonus. In early March, the Bo... Read More
Cities across the country have changed the way they handle public housing. San Francisco joined that group in February when city leaders and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Sec... Read More
In the Steven Spielberg science fiction film Minority Report, Tom Cruise portrayed a policeman in the future where technology helps detect crimes before they happen — precrime. T... Read More
Marina residents at a meeting in March voiced strong worries about an expansion in property crime, homelessness, and even home invasions. Though violent crime is down by about 25 p... Read More
Like cabs did with Uber, Muni buses could learn the modern meaning of “You snooze, you lose” this year with the launch of a new private shuttle service designed to be m... Read More
A pending lawsuit by the California State Lands Commission over the validity of Proposition B has caught the eyes of legislators, developers, urban planners, and antigrowth advocat... Read More
The redevelopment of 13 acres stretching from Crissy Field to the heart of the Presidio took a step further in late March with the release of new conceptual designs for the space. ... Read More
For the economy, it’s not quite the best of times, but it’s definitely not the worst. Wages still lag for most people, but the six-year economic recovery is finally pos... Read More
The city’s housing shortage becomes much clearer when taken in the context of housing construction trends over the past 74 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, the number of new ho... Read More
In 2013, the hipster-afflicted Mission district was rated one of the country’s “hottest” neighborhoods, but in 2015, it is replaced in the top 10 list by Daly Cit... Read More
At the beginning of February, San Francisco’s so-called “Airbnb law” went live, legalizing short-term rentals under certain conditions and imposing insurance and ... Read More
Office real estate in San Francisco continues to perform well, helped by constrained supply — even with all of the new construction under way — and the same booming economy tha... Read More