The premises, located on Main Street, first opened in 1955 and had been at the heart of the village for nearly seven decades before its closure in January 2023. Since then, it has been used as accommodation, initially for refugees arriving from Ukraine and, more recently, for short-term emergency housing in three of its 12 rooms.
A 5,000 square foot underwater parcel bordering on Candlestick State Park has gone on the market for the rock bottom price of $250 - and it's raising some eyebrows. But not all eyebrows: Someone closed the deal. Nicolo Gobbi, the realtor who listed the seafloor plot, told Mission Local that the parcel sold for above the asking price, at nearly $800 - still quite low by San Francisco real estate standards.
In April, Harper, a retired San Francisco Muni driver, received an eviction notice stating she owed $93,000. A second letter later reduced that amount. "Something is not right. How can you go from $93K to $10K. At first, I'm concerned they have bad bookkeepers," Harper said. Now, the uncertainty has left her fearing to end up homeless "on the sidewalk," Harper said.
At this late-December meeting, thecommission was considering: a mixed-use apartment complex in West Oakland, a cell tower near a deep East Oakland development, an application for an Uptown bar, electrical upgrades at four parks, and the now-defunct proposal to build a ballpark and housing at Howard Terminal.
Proponents of a tax to revamp Cubberley Community Center came out in force tonight (May 18), to urge the council move forward with plans to OK plans that may lead to a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot measure to fund long-sought upgrades to the dilapidated center, despite lacking poll numbers.
The revised budget proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled out Thursday calls for giving the effort $125 million in funding raised by Proposition 4, a parks and climate resilience bond voters approved two years ago. That would cover most of the $175 million purchase price that the Stronach Group, the track's Canadian owner, agreed to in a deal announced earlier this year with the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, which plans to buy the site and transfer it to the East Bay Regional Park District.
The Elmwood neighborhood's commercial strip could be declared a historic district if city officials approve a proposal backed by local preservationists and hundreds of residents. But to critics, the drive looks more like an attempt to thwart plans to build housing in the wealthy and exclusive neighborhood than a genuine effort to honor history.
The Grocery Outlet at NorthPoint Centre is set to open in late summer of this year, a Grocery Outlet representative confirmed to SFGATE. Earlier this week, an eagle-eyed Redditor posted a photo of a new Grocery Outlet sign at the location. In late March, Hoodline spotted construction barriers, plywood walls and banners reading “Future home of Grocery Outlet” at the site, indicating the store is under construction.
Recently, Disneyland filed building permits with the city of Anaheim for one of the locations named in DisneylandForward, the massive multiyear development plan that will likely lead to the company's third California park.
New Rochelle pursued the downtown overlay because its traditional zoning produced fragmented, underused parcels and left the city's core underperforming. We knew we had underutilized our downtown, Salgado said. City leaders saw stalled projects, aging buildings and surface parking lots where walkable, mixed-use buildings could go instead. They wanted a predictable framework that could attract serious capital while still meeting community goals on design and affordability.
U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon announced a $500,000 federal allocation for firefighters in Berkeley and several nearby communities to train together. Firefighters from Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Kensington, and Richmond have formed a consortium to share facilities and enhance training efforts.
Disney secretly owns nearly all the homes on the east side of Keystone Street, creating a living picture of single-family paradise in sunny Los Angeles. The long run of houses, driveways and front lawns looks that way because the Walt Disney Company demands it.
