Rumormongering : Fresh & Easy Coming to the Mission? January 31st, 2011 A little bird just told us that grocery chain Fresh & Easy is this close to signing a 20-year lease for the recently shuttered Delano’s space on South Van Ness in the Mission. The length of the lease is raising eyebrows, and
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01/30/2011
PriceChopper: Piedmont: The Nineteen-Seventies Strike Back January 31st, 2011 Click the image above to view the full photogallery. First on the market last year and asking $3,000,000, this 5-bed, 6.5-bath house in the woods of Piedmont was re-listed this week at$2,850,000. Properties get re-list
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01/30/2011
Holding Horses: Slow Down Kids, Gus Murad Not Leaving the Mission After All January 31st, 2011 This morning word hit the Mission that Gus Murad, owner of the love-it-or-hate-it Medjool (you know, with the problematic rooftop bar) was packing up and leaving the neighborhood by selling off his thr
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01/30/2011
34th America’s Cup Race: A-Cup: Don’t Buy That Bay View Condo Just Yet January 31st, 2011 Photo Credit: Sail World Coffee-break reading: from SF Appeal we have a look at the revised term sheet for the America’s Cup agreement. Hammered out between the Mayor’s office and Team Ellison during the Ch
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01/30/2011
Big Spenders Still Spend Big January 31st, 2011 [via FoundSF] The Wall Street Journal today reports that in the Bay Area, sales of homes priced over $2,000,000 were up 20% in 2010 over 2009. In fact, they mention that sales might be even higher because some high priced home are sold in private s
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01/30/2011
PriceChopper: Clarendon Heights Mega House Takes Another Chop January 31st, 2011 Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Was: $4,500,000Then: $4,198,000Then: $3,998,000Then: $3,800,000Now: $3,498,000You Save: $1,002,000 28 Clarendon was built 1959 and then underwent a complete renov
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01/30/2011
Development Watch: Mid-Market: Burning Man at the Warfield? January 31st, 2011 It’s been a week of very good news for the neighborhood known as Mid-Market and its future as an arts district. Along with the announcement that ACT wants to build a theater complex there, today the folks who somehow
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01/30/2011
Comment of the Day: wow, I haven’t seen so much… January 31st, 2011 wow, I haven’t seen so much blue carpet since Ladybird Johnson remodeled the White House. - Jack Douglas [$7,000,000 and Very, Very Gorgeous] Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments » On the Market: Hot Tub Time Machine Jan
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01/30/2011
PM Linkage: Planning Commissioner Behaving Badly; Critical Mass Tonight; Creepy and Awesome Skull House; More! January 31st, 2011 [Stand Tall via Curbed Flickr Pool/Nick Fisher] · SFO gets daily Airbus A380 flight this May [SF Gate]· Gigantic ship and gigantic airplane become BFF [Telstar Logist
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01/30/2011
I'm always happy to help an agent from another territory. Below is a thoughtful Holiday Card I received from Helen Spear at Coldwell Banker in San Diego. Thanks for the referral and card, Helen. Dr. Paul Xavier and Mr. Roger Klein were both a pleasure to work with and great company.
01/16/2011