Back in December, SF Tennis Club members were able to convince the ‘Supes to pass a resolution creating a moratorium on any development that would eliminate a recreational facility. That seems to be the nail in the coffin for Pulte Homes, which had been looking to put 500 condos on the site of the current SF Tennis Club at 5th & Brannan. From today’s SF Business Times, Pulte Homes has abandoned plans to build 500 condos at the South of …

From Friday’s SF Business Times, The Presidio Trust has given developer Forest City the green light to build a 186-unit housing development at the former Public Health Service Hospital Complex, a project that had faced vociferous opposition from Richmond District neighbors. The project, which was significantly scaled back after a series of neighborhood hearings, will include a little more than half the 350 units Forest City had originally proposed. It will also have 76,000 square feet of educational, office, and …

From Plan C San Francisco, Ever wonder where San Francisco’s TICs are forming? We’ve taken data from the thousands of TICs sales reported by the Multiple Listing Service from 2000 to 2007, and mapped the locations against a map of San Francisco’s political districts. The results are striking, but not surprising – TICs are forming where there are lots of small, multi-unit buildings (Districts 8 and 5 especially – Castro, Noe Valley, Haight Ashbury, Hayes Valley). Not so much in …

I’ve been to this trade show in the past and it’s worth a trip. From the PCBC site: PCBC is homebuilding’s premier tradeshow and conference — an annual event bringing together the people who imagine, design and create our neighborhoods and communities of the future. Held each summer in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, PCBC draws over 33,000 residential builders, developers, architects, financiers, product manufacturers, and consultants from the industry. Originally named the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, PCBC was launched in …

Exactly one year after I posted an article from the SF Business Times, they have published an update which includes changes to the plan as well as a new developer. Four months after Union Capital Properties dropped an agreement to build 200 condos in West Portal’s woodsy Christian Science enclave known as Arden Wood, a Washington, D.C., developer with deep San Francisco roots has taken over the project. Republic Urban Properties, which has developed more than $4 billion in office, …