AL's Place Hits the Mission; Heatmap Update; Playland Bar Busted For Selling Cocaine; More!
Welcome to Eater Tastings, where Eater SF editor Allie Pape shares the best restaurant and bar news of the week.
AL's Place. Photo via Patricia Chang
MISSION—Aaron London's lovely new AL's Place opens tonight in the Mission, with casual food from the Michelin-starred chef. Bonus: most of the menu is appropriate for pescetarians and vegetarians.
AL's Place. Photo via Patricia ChangMISSION—Aaron London's lovely new AL's Place opens tonight in the Mission, with casual food from the Michelin-starred chef. Bonus: most of the menu is appropriate for pescetarians and vegetarians.
BAY AREA—The Eater Heatmap is poppin' fresh. Here's your back-pocket guide to SF's 20 hottest new restaurants.
NOB HILL—Playland Bar took its name a little too seriously—and lost its liquor license when an employee was caught dealing pot and cocaine.
SF Is the Fifth Most Popular City Worldwide for the Uber-Rich
New York has the highest number of properties owned by ultra-high-net-worth individuals—those are the 211,275 people worldwide who have $30 million or more in assets—followed by London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The ranking comes from the 2015 edition of the Global Luxury Residential Real Estate Report, recently out from Sotheby's International Realty. Even though San Francisco is only the fifth most common place to own a home if you're uber-rich, it's the only city in the top five with a population under 1 million. Our closest companion, population-wise, is LA, which has more than four and a half times the people.
· Global Luxury Residential Real Estate Report 2015 [Sotheby's]
As Facebook prepares to open its new Frank Gehry-designed headquarters, the company has acquired a 56-acre industrial parkjust south of its current digs in Menlo Park, for a price estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 million. The company's plans for the site could extend beyond just offices to things like housing, retail, or a hotel. Facebook does not plan to develop the industrial park in the near future but bought it with plans for growth in the coming years. [SF Business Times]Totally Charming Telegraph Hill Cottage Lists for $1.895M
From the outside, 28 Prescott Court is nothing more than an unassuming yellow stucco box squeezed into a narrow alleyway in Telegraph Hill. But inside, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is gorgeous and unique, with exposed wood-beam ceilings that give it the feel of a cottage somewhere in the European countryside. The home is small but makes good use of its space with thoughtful design, especially in the kitchen, which looks quite functional despite its size. The open staircase that leads to the second level makes the entire first floor feel more expansive than it actually is. 
LGBT-Friendly Church in the Castro to Be Born Again As Condos
The Castro's Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, known for serving the city's LGBT community, has closed its doors and sold its building at 150 Eureka Street to a developer that plans to put in four luxury condos. The church will relocate into rented space within the First Congregational Church of San Francisco at 1300 Polk Street. Its former home was run-down and thought to be beyond repair, which was why the church voted to put it on the market. The developer that bought the building has already completed one major church redevelopment project in the city: the stunning transformation of a former Broderick Street Baptist Church into a $5 million single-family home. 
Sad 170-Square-Foot Studio with No Kitchen Asks $1200/Month
For would-be renters who require neither daylight nor the demands of regular food intake, here we have a "junior in-law" apartment seeking $1,200/month in Central Richmond. At 170 square feet, it's smaller than a micro-unit but, hey, roomier than a jail cell. Amenities include a closet, small fridge, and a bookshelf, but no kitchen. We're guessing that the unit is part of a house—maybe a basement cubby or converted storage area?—though very little thought has gone into things like space planning and, um, logic. You'll have to close accordion doors every time you want to go to the bathroom (and then bang your knees against them when you sit down). The landlords at least had the decency not to provide a mirror, saving their future tenant from the indignity of having to meet his own gaze.
· Junior in-law studio [Craigslist]
CÃrculo de Vida, a Mission nonprofit that supports Latino cancer patients and their families, is being forced out to make way for DoubleDutch, a growing tech companythat also rents in the building. Landlord Vera Cort, who has been juggling several commercial tenants at the US Bank building at 2601 Mission, told Capp Street Crap that losing a large tenant like DoubleDutch, a mobile event app company with several dozen employees, would be less disruptive than losing CÃrculo de Vida. Cort added that DoubleDutch will pay the same rent that CÃrculo de Vida has been paying. [Capp Street Crap]Flipped Richmond Craftsman Doubles in Price, Loveliness
It's no secret that we're often skeptical of flips, many of which involve tearing out Edwardians' souls or trashing lovely architectural detailing. However, every now and then, flippers create something lovely, and that is the case with this flipped Craftsman on 35th Avenue in the Outer Richmond. In December 2013, the home, which needed work, sold for $1.05 million. The flippers set about removing the jewel-colored rugs and dated kitchen, replacing them with hardwood floors and a chef's kitchen. The design touches, especially the marble fireplace in the living room, are understated and elegant, and skylights appear to have been added to the top floor to let more light come in. 
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Supervisor Eric Mar is working on a November ballot measure that would seek to tax absentee property owners who let their homes sit vacant. Back in October, a SPUR report found that just 2.4 percent of units in SF lie vacant as pieds-Ã -terre. Meanwhile, a similar measure floated by the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York, where nearly 25 percent of apartments are not primary residences, is unlikely to go through. [CBS; SPUR; NYT; Curbed NY]Weekend Open House Report: Nob Hill Edition
Location: 1317 Hyde St. at Clay St.Size: 2-bed, 1-bath, 1,242-square-foot condo
Price: $1.049M
Pitch: "Beautifully preserved features, gracious rooms and stunning updates make this elegant Edwardian condo a warm and inviting home. Wood moldings and floors, coffered ceiling and built-in hutch in DR, and stunning mantle recall the charm of a bygone era. Both the bright and sunny kitchen with European appliances (Lacanche, Liebherr, Miele) and bathroom received tasteful and period appropriate remodels. Located in a handsome, classic San Francisco Edwardian, the condo and the building are both lovingly maintained. Enjoy the lush shared garden. Walk to the Financial District, Union Square, Russian Hill, Polk Street and California Street. Enjoy convenient public transportation, markets and cafes."
Open House: Saturday, 2 to 4pm; Sunday, 1 to 4pm
Tech Bus Drivers to Vote on Unionizing; A 'Gentrified' Porn Shop
Photo via Jeremy Brooks· SF supervisors push for stricter safety laws after fires [SF Examiner]
· Shuttle bus drivers for Apple, Yahoo and other tech giants to vote on unionization [Contra Costa Times]
· Then & now: Divisadero edition [Hoodline]
· Gentrified porn shop at 16th and Mission has "nothing to do with tech money" [SFist]
· Muni "double berthing" on hold two to four weeks [Streetsblog SF]
· Extremely graphic infographic visualizes 2014 Bernal Heights microhood real estate trends [Bernalwood]
· Mapping the morning commute [Flowing Data]
Renderings Revealed for Residential Mid-Rise on Kron-TV Site
O'Farrell Street view. Renderings courtesy Handel Architects.Plans for the burgeoning Van Ness corridor just got a little clearer with developer Oryx Partners' unveiling of renderings for the old KRON-TV site, which the station recently vacated in favor of a smaller footprint on Front Street. Designed by Handel Architects, the project would replace the KRON-TV building with a 14-story structure including 255 residential units and 5,200 square feet of retail. Oryx unveiled the renderings at a community meeting on Tuesday, and today the development's website went live. The project will include a mix of studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms, and three-bedrooms, as well as 12,000 square feet of open space. No word yet on whether the units will be condos or rentals.
Three Market-Rate Housing Sites Up for Grabs in Hunters View
Image via Mithun | SolomonThe Hunters View housing project is in the midst of a $450 million redevelopment that is replacing 267 dilapidated public housing units with 800 units of public, below-market rate, and market-rate apartments. Developer John Stewart Co. has already made progress on the public housing component, with projects designed by Paulett Taggart Architects and David Baker Architects (and a master plan by Mithun | Solomon). Now, three sites totaling 2.5 acres of city-owned Hunters View property, capable of accommodating hundreds of units of market-rate housing, have hit the market, reports the San Francisco Business Times. Once a developer scoops up the sites, which would be fully entitled, work can begin on the latest development to hit a rapidly changing corner of the city.
Banjo player and late-blooming novelist Steve Martin just listed his 7,377-square-foot Montecito mansion for $11 million. Designed by Roland E. Coate, Jr, a Venice Beach native, the home can be classified as 1970s residential brutalism to the max. Curbed National has the tour, this way. [Curbed National]SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER
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