The Bay Area's largest (and most feasible) post-pandemic conversion of a downtown commercial to residential project opened officially yesterday. Spartan Village on the Paseo is home to nearly 700 SJSU students. go.sjsu.edu/SVP Here's a roundup of some media coverage...

UHF (obviously)

We could have both: Costco is putting 800 units above a new location in Los Angeles sfgate.com/la/article/cos…

Architecture firms in California are usually set up as S-Corps, the state won't allow licensed professional services businesses to set up as LLCs (among the other good reasons listed in this thread)

"And then there was Mark Farrell. In what can only be viewed as a blatantly opportunistic — and pretty unhinged — response, Farrell expressed neither remorse 4 the victim of a shooting nor appreciation 4 the officers who made the arrest." -Willie Brown sfexaminer.com/forum/ricky-pe…

Technically, he’s right. It’s a point I’ve been making for years. Yes, most criminals vote Democrat. So do most non-criminals. So do most Christians AND most non-Christians. Most vegetarians AND most meat eaters and ppl who drink water and EVERYBODY BUT WHITE PEOPLE Because

Here Joe Eskenazi digs into the details of San Francisco's Prop M - a measure that will cut taxes for small and large businesses while raising them for medium ones... And it will also nullify Prop L (ride share tax to fund public transit). missionlocal.org/2024/09/san-fr…

More and more people are saying it: #fundthebus

Obviously this is an outlier, but: The highest-density ED1 project has a density of 1,442 du/acre and a FAR of 31.4

Billionaire venture capitalist Neil Mehta made headlines this week when word leaked out that he had bought a half-dozen legacy businesses on a three-block stretch of Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights.

Everyone must be looking forward to going down to the new corner signage shop

landscape architecture budget was "take a compact car to home depot"

David Brooks commits so many acts of intellectual dishonesty in here but the biggest is blaming liberals for defunding public schools. Again I ask, why can NYT columnists submit their work to factcheckers? This is not urgent writing on deadline nytimes.com/2024/09/04/opi…

all respect to Olly Wainwright ‘s most recent article on The Grenfell Tower catastrophe, I do take issue with this left field claim with no citation. Is anyone actually building specifications with LLMs? How? There are plenty of tools to assist in spec writing…

This week’s Economist cover story is brought to you by US automakers and regulators, both of whom have been ignoring car bloat for decades.

Going backwards on Market Street shows the big difference between Farrell and everyone else in the race IMO.

99% of opposition to Missing Middle projects are because projects are being designed with the same software engine as Rollercoaster Tycoon.

I like how they broke up the massing with the blue siding

I mean sure this might be true but on the other hand my elderly neighbor stopped crossing the street at our corner two years ago because of how many people are blowing the stop sign

We have plenty of space for solar farms that don't require cutting down endangered trees