News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
CONTRARY TO EARLIER PLANS, California Pacific Medical Center now says it will scale back its operations in the neighborhood when a new state-of-the-art hospital opens next year on Van Ness Avenue. Patients are expected to move into the new hospital in early March. The current hospital will then concentrate on ambulatory care for patients who…
A PROPOSAL TO tear down the historic St. Dominic’s School and replace it with a modern new pastoral center over a 59-car below-grade parking garage got a chilly reception from the Planning Commission on May 24. The project came before the Planning Commission with a recommendation from its staff that the proposal be rejected as…
By SUSAN SWARD On a Friday in April of 1972, Charlotte Maeck got a purple postcard in the mail at her Pacific Heights residence that she initially thought was a hosiery advertisement from the I. Magnin department store. On closer look, she saw it was a city announcement of a hearing the following Tuesday on…
REAL ESTATE | PATRICK BARBER Continuously tight supplies and robust buyer demand have pushed up real estate prices in San Francisco’s most desirable neighborhoods over the past few years, making properties that sell for less than $1 million an endangered species. Between mid-February and mid-March, 19 condominiums changed hands in Lower Pacific Heights, Pacific Heights,…
REAL ESTATE | PATRICK BARBER In the dwindling days of December, an historic Presidio Heights Tudor sold for the first time — ever — making it the biggest single-family home sale of 2017 in San Francisco. The home at 3500 Jackson Street, known as the Roos House, sold for $11 million, down from its original…
IN THE two-and-a-half years since Yoshi’s walked away from the jazz club and restaurant it created in the much-heralded Fillmore Heritage Center, city leaders have met and talked extensively about what should take its place. Now they have punted. On November 3, City Hall abruptly announced that none of the five proposals that had been…
LEADERS OF St. Dominic’s Church are embarking on an ambitious building program that would demolish the 1929 school building on Pine Street and add five new buildings atop a 130-car parking garage. Three of the new buildings would house church administrative offices, a pre-school and a much larger parish hall. They would be built on…
FOR YEARS, residents of the 1700 block of Broderick Street, between Bush and Pine, have struggled with an overabundance of love from fans of the beloved ’80s sit-com Full House, supposedly set at 1709 Broderick. When a sequel, Fuller House, was launched last year, the opening credits still showed the Italianate Victorian at 1709, and…
VIDEO: Grand opening of The Pacific condos at 2121 Webster on September 15. REAL ESTATE | PATRICK BARBER The period before Labor Day is typically a slow time for real estate. But this year was a lot busier, thanks to new condominium buildings that have been opening across San Francisco’s northern neighborhoods. There were 32 condominium…
REAL ESTATE | PATRICK BARBER While the highest end of the housing market has been slowing in San Francisco over the past few months, buyers will still pay big prices for properties in prime condition in locations that also offer top-shelf views. Such was the case with 2755 Fillmore Street, which sold for its asking…