Jordan Park Arts & Crafts Fixer With Five Bedrooms Asks $3.5M
Sitting in the Jordan Park area of Laurel Heights is an Arts & Crafts five-bedroom home designed by Joseph Leonard, the architect responsible for developing most of the Jordan Park area. The shingled house was built around 1910 and is filled with wood wainscoting, millwork, beamed ceilings, and stained-glass windows. A rounded turret upstairs tops it all off. An upper level attic almost feels like the interior of an old ship's belly, with angled, dark wood walls and a wood plank floor. The home just hit the market asking $3.5 million. 
8 Octavia, designed by Stanley Saitowitz, was one of the biggest condo projects of the year in 2014, but no tenant was ever announced for the commercial space at its base. Now, that space has officially been filled by the team behind Hayes Valley sake spot True Sake. The 8 Octavia version will be named True Cup and will include a casual sake bar and food with an "experimental Western" twist served in sake-style cups. [Hoodline/Photo via Sally Kuchar]SoMa's All Star Donuts Could Be Demolished for Housing
Photo via LiveSOMAThe greasy SoMa dive All Star Donut shop may not be long for this world if developer Realtex Inc.'s new proposal for an 89-unit residential building becomes reality. A Preliminary Project Assessment, which is the very first step for a new development, has been submitted to SF Planning detailing plans for a nine-story building with 89 units at 399 5th Street, near Harrison. Both the donut shop and an office building would be demolished to make way for the new construction.
At Balboa Reservoir, Many Prefer Empty Parking Lot to Housing
Photo: Lamar AndersonHousing in San Francisco has been so woefully underproduced these last few decades—such that population growth vastly outpaces construction—sending the city scrambling for a solution. That's led a few advocates in some counterintuitive directions, such as the proposed moratorium on market-rate residential construction in the Mission, which could become a ballot measure in November, and also a similar but shorter moratorium proposed this week by Supervisor David Campos. Things have gotten so bad that someone cooked up the inspired but massively code-violating scheme to build housing in the streets, and the press is covering it as if it makes sense.
Author Dave Eggers' nonprofit 826 Valencia, a children's writing workshop, is headed to the corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth Street in the Tenderloin. The new location will be the largest of 826 Valencia's seven. The nonprofit operates as a pirate store in the Mission, but no theme has yet been disclosed for the Tenderloin version. The new location is on a corner notoriously plagued with drug dealing and crime, and the presence of 826 Valencia is part of an effort from the Mayor's Office of Workforce development and Tenderloin neighborhood groups to make the area safer. [SF Chronicle]Open House Report: Noe Valley Edition
Location: 471 Jersey St. at Diamond St.Size: 3-bed, 1.5-bath, 1,555-square-foot condo
Price: $1.495M
Pitch: "This stylish and light-filled interior designer owned home is located on one of the best blocks in the heart of Noe. Top floor, spacious Edwardian condo has an abundance of original detail. Designer touches throughout include a gorgeous open kitchen with box beam ceilings, custom built-in banquette and stunning light fixtures. The kitchen opens to a sunny deck, overlooking an expansive south-facing landscaped yard. Situated on a wide 30 foot lot allows for gracious rooms and closets. Also enjoy hardwood floors, cove-ceilings, bay windows and a flexible floor plan. One car independent parking and storage in the garage. A walker's paradise & just one block from 24th St cafes and boutiques, transit and tech shuttles."
Open House: Sunday, 2 to 4pm
Bliss Dance, the 40-foot-tall dancing woman sculpture that was first exhibited at Burning Man, will be leaving its current Treasure Island home on May 18. The piece is made of stainless steel and covered in 1,000 LED lights, and it hasn't adapted well to the sea breezes of the location. Efforts to de-rust the piece haven't succeeded. There's no word on where the sculpture will end up, but its creator Marco Cochrane is currently at work on another sculpture depicting the same subject, Bay Area-based singer and dancer Deja Solis. [SFist] UPDATED: Mapping 41 San Francisco Street Fairs and Festivals
Photo via SF CitizenIt's almost summer in San Francisco, meaning that the city's schedule of street fairs and festivals is about to swing into full gear. Events range from the very family-friendly Union Street Festival in Cow Hollow to the decidedly no-kids leather and fetish Folsom Street Fair. No matter the occasion, each of the festivals is about celebrating the city, its neighborhoods, and the distinct places and people that make up San Francisco. We've mapped 41 festivals and fairs around the city and included the dates that they will next be held. Have a favorite festival that we missed? Let us know in the comments after the jump. What the Kitchen Will Look Like in 2025, According to Ikea
All photos courtesy of Ikea"Food as design" was one of the big trends spotted at Milan Design Week last month and sure enough, very-busy furniture retailer Ikeadedicated a whole exhibit to Concept Kitchen 2025, a deep exploration of how the kitchen will change in the next decade. The project, a collaboration with design innovation firm Ideo and students from Lund University and the Eindhoven University of Technology, stems from a set of basic assumptions about the world in 2025, e.g. "Our homes will become physically smaller," "'Shopping' will mean 'home delivery'." Unlike "kitchen of the future" predictions from, say, the '50s, these prototypes are less about a magical convenience and more about practicality and the environment.
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A Hole on Haight Street; Ask Zuckerberg for Affordable Housing
Photo via Paul Frankenstein· How LinkedIn won over Mountain View [SF Business Times]
· Wild parrots of San Francisco! [Forest Knolls Blog]
· Hole opens on Haight Street, as predicted [Hoodline]
· For affordable housing, ask Mark Zuckerberg [Mission Local]
· The roles being cast for the Mission-Based TV pilot '94110' [SFist]
Effective immediately, Curbed SF is seeking a freelance contributor to write 3-5 blog posts on a weekly basis. We're looking for some combination of urban planning nerd, cranespotter, and San Francisco news junkie to help us track neighborhood happenings and the many new developments going up around town. Research chops help a lot—if you find yourself searching through Planning docs just to see what's going on, let's talk. If you find yourself scoping out construction sites or gaping at high-rises while everyone else hurries past, step right this way. [Previously]The Curbed SF Newsletter Doesn't Cost $1K Per Square Foot
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The pro-development nonprofit San Francisco Housing Action Coalition has launched a petition against Supervisor David Campos' proposed 45-day moratorium on market-rate residential construction in the Mission. The petition is addressed to Campos and to the moratorium legislation's cosponsors—supervisors Norman Yee, Jane Kim, John Avalos, and Eric Mar—and argues that the best way to build more affordable housing is not to stop building, but to continue to increase the housing supply. Or, as Bernalwood's Todd Lappin recently put it: "It may be true that San Francisco can't really build its way out of the current housing crisis. But it's definitely true that we can't not-build our way out of it either." [SFHAC; previously; Bernalwood] $8.6M Pac Heights Co-Op Is Basically One Giant Tin-Foil Hat
When unit 4 at 2170 Jackson Street last changed hands back in 2007, its price was just $2.7 million. However, the dated co-op needed a complete overhaul at the time thanks to interiors that looked like they hadn't been touched since the 1970s. The property got a down-to-the-studs renovation but retained a definite air of stuffiness. It also added one unusual feature. In an effort to block electric and magnetic fields (EMF)—radiation released by devices like cell phones, wireless routers, and GPS devices—the apartment's guts have been thickly coated in semiconductive graphite paint, essentially swathing all 3,428 square feet in the brush-on equivalent of aluminum foil. The electromagnetically fortified home is now back on the market asking $8.6 million. 
When the San Francisco Giants announced that they would make 33 percent of the units at their Mission Rock development below market rate, questions about the pricing and intended residents of those units immediately started flying. The president of a local teachers' union called for some of the housing to go to moderate-income earners like teachers, while Supervisor Jane Kim pushed for the units to go only to those making 120 percent of area media income—about $122,000 for a family of four—or below. The Giants haven't given a breakdown of pricing and availability of the units, but did say that they are targeting a range between 55 percent of area median income ($56,000 for a four-person household) and 140 percent ($142,000 for four people). [SFGate/Rendering via Steelblue/Perkins+Will/SF Giants]SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER
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