SF: Bayview Archives
Peskin & Co. Screw With SF Streets Plan
get everyone off their lazy asses encourage San Franciscans to meet-and-greet while strolling/ biking/ Segway scootering along the promenade. If the Supes have their way, however, Sunday Streets will be subjected to the Board's whims before it even gets off the ground— and we all know how bureaucracy rolls around these parts. Business folk at Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf have damage with the plan— in this town, it's not a real event unless someone has beef, after all— even though Gavin's jumping through hoops, having already scaled the 4-hour event back from three to two Sundays in August.
· Supervisors Buckle Up to Drive Over 'Sunday Streets' [Rincon Hill Examiner]
· Gav to Shut Down Embarcadero for Pedestrian Invasion [Curbed SF]
Under 500 Club: So About This Market...
The Under 500 Club is Curbed SF's exclusive members-only support group for those shoddy, poorly-staged homes (if at all!) languishing on the market for under $500,000. It's a sad state of affairs out there, San Francisco. All sad sacks and shitboxes should appeal to the Curbed SF inbox.
What: Top-floor condominium
Where: 901 Bayshore Boulevard Bayview
How Much: $399,000; 603 square feet at $662 per.
Note: Partial views of Bay, ballpark; largely renovated with new appliances; deeded parking for one car; near restos, markets, public transpo.
What: Studio with sleeping alcove, walk-out balcony
Where: 1050 North Point, Russian Hill
How Much: $450,000
Note: "Rarely available studio with pano views of Marin, East Bay, and more!" Heated outdoor swimming pool, 24-hour doorman, 3 elevators.
Proposition G, Take Two: Desperation Row for Lennar and Co.?
News broke last Friday that several community organizations have gone to the mattresses with über-developer Lennar Corp., walking away with a legally-binding agreement that puts Proposition G on the hook for a total of 35 percent affordable housing, a ten percent increase from its initial plan. Advocates of the Daly-backed proposition F aren't yet convinced— 50 percent or die!— but even staunch "progressives" have to admit that even though much remains to be seen, this kind of cooperation is all but unprecedented. Family-sized housing (not the studios and one-bedrooms that often make BMR housing out of reach for families); funding for job training and community programs— Lennar's second crack seems like a fairly solid one. (See below for details.) In today's Beyond Chron, however, Paul Hogarth recapped the comments of another journo at last night's press conference
[Are] Lennar’s concessions to the community a desperate, eleventh-hour move to save their measure? By facing an alternative measure that would be financially unfeasible for most private developers, Lennar had simply no choice but to “play ball” with the community if they wanted to stay in town.
· CurbedWire Late Edition: Lennar Corp. Agreement Allows for More Affordable Housing [Curbed SF]
Full deets, straight from the San Francisco Labor Council >>
Brace, Eastern Nabes: Change is Nigh
Ready yourselves for the big boom, eastern nabes: Members of the city's Planning Commission are charged today with the delightful task of poring over a 1,373-page document dubbed the Eastern Neighborhood Plan. If ratified, 2,200 acres' worth of the Central Waterfront, Bayview, Potrero Hill, the Mission, and some parts of SoMa will be entirely rezoned. Expect increased housing density, building heights, and new-and-improved building codes— enough to support a projected 20,000 new residents by 2025. If all proceeds according to Gavin's Master Plan, San Francisco will be entirely carbon neutral by then; to wit, four new parks, along with revamped transit, bicycle, and pedestrian routes have also been worked into the plan. No suspension of disbelief here, good citizens: Wont to toss about the hyperboles as we are, this one will be a shitshow, a civil war, an all out melee— Critics are already foaming at the mouth over nabe preservation and such. (Picture Daly and Mirkarimi convulsing wildly— thankfully, Peskin's out of the picture here, for the moment, at least.) A whopping 88 building projects are on hold pending the plan's approval; they could resume as early as next year. Brace.
·Wave of development could sweep through four eastern neighborhoods [SF Examiner]
Preservationists Prevail: Supes Zap Bayview Housing
What started out as a congenial gesture from a developer is on its way into evolving into a full-on shitstorm. Earlier this year, the land at 900 Innes Street was donated to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic by local developer Joe Cassidy—whose generosity is surely only surpassed by his tax breaks—for the purpose of building housing for Bayview residents. Sounds great so far, right? Here's the rub: on that land sits a Shipwrights Cottage, which may be the last Victorian workers' cottages on the San Francisco waterfront. Cue preservationists and let the battle of the nonprofits begin, as some want to relocate the cottage and turn it into a maritime museum, while others say that moving it would strip away its historical significance. If the cottage is landmarked, however, the development will lose 12 housing units. As of yesterday, that's exactly what will happen: the Board of Supervisors did recommend landmark status for the site, albeit with the understanding that it will eventually include affordable housing. Perhaps the most sound argument against the landmarking came from the aptly-named Stormy Henry, an area resident who, invoking the ghosts of longshoremen, claimed "The people who once lived at 900 Innes Street would want us to use this site."
· Supes Back Preservation, Housing at 900 Innes [Beyond Chron]
· Bayview Development Actually for Bayview Locals [Curbed SF]
[Image via India Basin]
Riding the Bench: Giants Earn Second Place in Seawall Lot 337 First Draft Pick
In a shocking upset that has restored our faith in democracy (or not) the San Francisco Giants' plan for Seawall Lot 337 was passed over during the first draft pick as a port-sponsored, seven-member advisory panel instead championed the proposal pitched by Kenwood Investments and its co-captain, the Ferry Building; projects were judged by several criteria, including their design concept, and plan for land use, along with their ability to actually pay for the project. The contest isn't over yet, of course: the Giants' scheme promises the bling, with slow food luminary Alice Waters and the House of Blues on the front line. Oh yeah— and it's been widely favored all along by just about everyone, it seems. (Forgot about that!) Kenwood's proposal, on the other hand, champions the arts; the company has recruited the Black Rock Arts Foundation and star landscape architect Walter Hood to man Team Aesthetics. Game on.
· Giants take 2nd in seawall design contest [SF Gate]
· Seawall Lot 337 Review, Round 4: Boston Properties, INC; Wilson Meany Sullivan, LLC; Kenwood Investments LLC [Curbed SF]
· Seawall Lot 337 Review, Round 2: San Francisco Giants; The Cordish Company; Farallon Capital Management, LLC [Curbed SF]
· Seawall Lot 337 Proposals Revealed [Curbed SF]
· Curbed SF SWL 337 Planning Challenge [Curbed SF]
Um, Thanks: Developer's Gift Blocks Bayview Dev
Affordable housing and historic preservation— fodder for a real estate throwdown of San Franciscan proportions. Enter the following set up scenario: Back in December, a developer donated a 130 year-old boating shack to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which plans to build 208 affordable housing units on the site, located near India Basin Shoreline Park. Fine. Good. Until a couple of months down the line, when the project fell under fire as it since has. Over 550 petitions have been signed by locals— many boat-builders and union members— seeking to protect the hut from Big Bad Development, leaving the THC in a lurch; if the house stands, 12 units will have to be sacrificed to the preservationist cause in order to build around it. Looks like someone should have looked that gift horse straight in the mouth: the timber building is the last of its kind standing, and has been up languishing on the list of buildings nominated for landmark status since 2005.
· Historic cottage could dent India Basin development [SF Examiner]
That's Rather Hideous: Sleeper Agent at 1400 Keith Street?
That's Rather Hideous is the report filed by Curbed SF's own interior design vice squad. Spot an offender? File a complaint— or a compliment. Witness protection guaranteed. Note: As we don't employ a company sketch artist, digital photos are always appreciated.
"Love the staging. And by "love" I mean I'm vomiting." No words minced here as a reader tipped us to 1400 Keith Street, in Bayview. Nausea inducing, yes. But hold your dry heaves for a moment. Visionaries among you, please don your best cheap suit and assemble your Monopoly money and Fisher Price cash register: It's time for a game of Make Believe. You, let's pretend for a moment that you're an investor interested in speculative real estate. And let's also imagine that the Bayview nabe is beginning to blow the f'up (oh wait, it is). Now for the factiods: 1400 Keith Street is ugly. We've already established that. 1400 Keith Street also holds 2 units (2 bedrooms/ 1 bath each) plus a 1-bedroom (illegal) inlaw unit. Double garage. Bay and Candlestick views. $570,000 for 2125 square feet, or $268 per. Repeat: $268 per square foot. Exterior after the jump. Geography lesson below. Question: Invest, renovate like mad, and flip in the future? Or pass?
· 1400 Keith Street [MLS]
Design Challenge or Death Wish?: 1262 Gilman Avenue
1262 Gilman Avenue just came on the market about 30 seconds ago, and in reading the listing and peering deeply into its (ass ugly) interior, the right side of our brain couldn't help but wonder if we had a "project" in our midst. No doubt, 1262 Gilman is problematic: exposed exterior electrical wiring, cracks in the dining room ceiling, some floor damage, and a possible mold/ dry rot marriage on the exterior stairs are disclosed ailments. Yet Bayview is about to undergo dramatic change— we're thinking about the future here, people. And at 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (including an inlaw unit with its own kitchen) and 2,500 square feet— at $695,000 or $278 per square foot— could 1262 Gilman be some handman's lucky fetch? Or are we looking at a zoning/ contracting/ relationship-killing nightmare here? And so we ask ...
Giants Seek "Ballpark Village," Ponies
Anyone who had a problem with the winning designs in the Curbed SWL 337 Planning Challenge can now transpose their wrath directly onto the San Francisco Giants: Having partnered with Farallon Capital Management and Cordish Co., the Giants plan to build a "ballpark village" on what is now known as Parking Lot A. Said village will include a concert hall, shops, restos, clubs and parking for the $2K cars that will be displaced in the process. The team also reportedly in talks with Mattel; a stable of My Little Ponies will occupy the outfield should all go as planned.
· Giants Look To Turn Parking Lot Into Village [CBS 5]
· Curbed SF SWL 337 Planning Challenge: Giants Up the Ante [Curbed SF]
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