Category: Bay Area Cities

If you frequent San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, you may already be familiar with one of the city’s most important redevelopments in history.  In 2011, Yerba Buena Island, the land mass that the bridge touches down on as it crosses San Francisco Bay, was announced to undergo a 20-year development that would create two new residential neighborhoods with room for up to 8,000 residents, Mercury News reports. Following evictions in 2015, names like Wilson Meany and Stockbridge Capital Group joined forces to develop the island enclave, which saw the launch of…

If you frequent San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, you may already be familiar with one of the city’s most important redevelopments in history.  In 2011, Yerba Buena Island, the land mass that the bridge touches down on as it crosses San Francisco Bay, was announced to undergo a 20-year development that would create two new residential neighborhoods with room for up to 8,000 residents, Mercury News reports. Following evictions in 2015, names like Wilson Meany and Stockbridge Capital Group joined forces to develop the island enclave, which saw the launch of…

Our city is under attack by a new radicalism, and it’s not the free-loving kind of the past. It’s a well-funded and dangerous “my way or the highway” rhetoric that slams any attempt at smart neighborhood planning as “anti-housing.” Last summer, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin partnered with the mayor to upzone the entire northeastern waterfront through joint Downtown Adaptive Reuse legislation. The legislation was carefully crafted in partnership with the Planning Department and the City Attorney’s Office to spur appropriate housing and mixed-use development downtown. Ex // Top…

Office vacancies in San Francisco reached an all-time high in the first quarter of 2024, but there are signs the market has reached a turning point, according to preliminary data released by real estate firm CBRE. The vacancy rate reached 36.6% in the first three months of 2024, up 1% from the final quarter of 2023. Compared to one year ago, the vacancy rate grew by nearly 12%.  But metrics that the firm uses to forecast future demand signaled the beginning of a transition out of the four year downturn.…