The path forward for a new residential development at the old Lucky Penny site at 2670 Geary Blvd., would be well-defined if the Board of Supervisors approves a new Geary-Masonic Special Use District.

The live and recorded public meeting of BOS with the Land Use and Transportation Committee for our 5 Masonic project.

The project team is back to pushing forward with plans for an 8-story building to rise up to 80 feet in height upon the site, with a total of 95 apartments.

The Masonic Avenue Streetscape Project is an effort to improve safety for people walking, biking, taking transit and driving on Masonic Avenue between Geary Boulevard and Fell Street. It will bring a variety of improvements to the corridor including, wider sidewalks, a new median, new paving, landscaping, raised bikeways, better lighting and upgraded sewer infrastructure.

Home-SF, the new city law that allows builders to increase height and density in exchange for providing more affordable housing units, is moving from the conceptual to the real.

The 24-hour greasy spoon dated back to the 1960s, when it was called Copper Penny Family Coffee Shop, and served many a family who walked over from Kaiser Hospital down the street. But in a city with a crazy building boom, the one-story diner and its generous parking lot were a ticking time bomb, and SoMa Development Partners lit the fuse.

As we first reported a few months ago, while the shuttered Lucky Penny site at 2670 Geary Boulevard is only zoned for moderate density and building up to 80 feet in height, the compliant plans for a seven-story building to rise on the site, with 21 apartments over three stories of office space and a subterranean garage for 57 cars, had been kicked to the curb and non-compliant plans for an eight-story building, with 98 residential units over a ground floor retail space and an underground garage for 36 cars, were being drawn.

This Western SoMa project has gotten off the ground at rapid speed since getting construction financing last fall.

While zoned for building up to 80 feet in height, the shuttered Lucky Penny parcel at 2670 Geary Boulevard is also only zoned for moderate density. And as such, plans for a seven-story building, with 21 apartments over three stories of office space, a new ground floor commercial space and a three-level subterranean garage for 57 cars were first drafted back in 2014 and formally proposed the next year.

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - May 15, 2017) - Tech CU (Technology Credit Union) announced today that it is providing an $8.5 million construction loan for Presidio Bay Ventures, LLC. The loan will fund the development of a 20-unit, multifamily project in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood.

Tech CU (Technology Credit Union) announced today that it is providing an $8.5 million construction loan for Presidio Bay Ventures, LLC. The loan will fund the development of a 20-unit, multifamily project in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood.

While San Diegans often support protecting the structures that connect our region to its past, the city also has a history of giving up too easily on history, of relegating properties many consider ripe for preservation to the scrap heap instead

Today, San Diego has a chance for a third renaissance. Adjacent to the blossoming neighborhoods of Gaslamp and East Village is an area that, despite its apparent potential, has remained underutilized and uninviting for decades.

The C Street corridor needs exciting architecture and new development, and Save our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) supports this vision. While we care deeply about the past, it is not a sentimental journey. Rather, it is a quality-of-life issue. Plain and simple, historic preservation revitalizes neighborhoods by spurring economic growth, is more aesthetically interesting than new development and makes for better communities by providing the roots any great city needs as it moves into the future.

SAN DIEGO — A plan to replace the dilapidated California Theatre building in downtown San Diego with a 40-story skyscraper was unanimously approved Tuesday by the City Council.