Category: San Francisco

By Isaac Monterose · March 6, 2024, 6:27 PM EST San Francisco’s struggling office market likely won’t be turned around by the city’s booming artificial intelligence industry, according to a joint report from commercial real estate brokerage Savills and commercial real… To view the full article, register now. Read More

The North Face location in Union Square is set to shut its doors later this month, adding to a rash of store closures in what has long been San Francisco’s premier shopping district. Three employees at The North Face location confirmed to The Standard that the store at 180 Post St. is closing on March 17. The outdoor recreation retailer… Read More

Moderate, pro-development candidates appear to have won many of the spots on San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee, the little-known group with outsize power to sway close elections, also referred to as “the D-Triple-C.”  “These votes aren’t final yet, but the trend is sure compelling,” said moderate DCCC candidate Supervisor Matt Dorsey on X, formerly Twitter, early Wednesday morning.  Four… Read More

Since the 1980s, the city has been focused on developing new homes on the east side of San Francisco, which is why our unanimously approved citywide housing plan concentrates on building more homes throughout the wealthier neighborhoods in the north and west sides of San Francisco, where development has been shut out for decades. But if we can’t add housing… Read More

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The San Francisco Department of Elections is reporting results for the seven local propositions on the March 5 ballot. With just over 83,000 ballots counted, here’s what we know so far. Current results consist of vote-by-mail results received before election day.  Results released on election night are preliminary and will change in subsequent days as the Department of Elections continues… Read More

Helen Byrne, a 94-year-old San Francisco resident, is confronting the possibility of eviction from her lifelong home after real estate investors purchased her building. Byrne, who has lived in the same apartment since she was 12, is being threatened with displacement alongside her fellow long-term neighbors due to the building’s acquisition by an LLC in 2020, aiming to capitalize on… Read More

More densely populated than anywhere in the country beyond New York City, San Francisco doesn’t have a lot of open space left to build on—and the higher into the sky you go, the scarcer and more expensive it gets. One fenced-off parcel stands out, though. Just a few blocks down from Twin Peaks’ dual summits, an extremely steep and undeveloped… Read More

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Senate Bill (SB) 1227, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener on February 15, 2024, would help speed the recovery of downtown San Francisco by creating a new CEQA exemption for qualifying commercial, institutional, student housing and mixed-use development projects in the Downtown Revitalization Zone, which includes the Financial District, Union Square, Eastern SOMA, Mid-Market, and Civic Center neighborhoods. SB 1227 would… Read More