Curbed SF - [Photo Credit: Walt Disney Museum] Although a B&B will open there this spring, and despite a much-visited Walt Disney Museum, dozens of offices plus Lucas’ megaplex, a wildly-popular nearby orange bridge, and Crissy Field, there’s no full-service hotel anywhere near the Presidio. Or any way to capture lucrative conference and wedding business. The Presidio Trust changed the rules last year to accommodate a real hotel near the historic Parade… read more…

Curbed Sf – At Monday’s Art Commission hearing, the first phase of schematic design for the Dolores Park renovations was approved, meaning the architects can actually start designing the damn thing. Thus far all design has been conceptual, laying out site plans and massing models, and including identified historic features. With this first phase approval, the landscape architecture firm Royston Hanamoto… read more…

Curbed SF - Today we’ll be taking a look at the cheapest residential real estate in the Sunset District. We combed the listings to find you the least expensive houses and condos currently for sale on the MLS. All of the homes below are up for grabs, meaning we didn’t include any listing that has a sale that’s currently pending. Boundaries are Lincoln Way to Sloat Boulevard and Great Highway to, well…. a… read more…

Curbed SF – Where would you expect more support for the city recognized “historical landmark district” program than in a historical landmark neighborhood like the Duboce Triangle? Yet the New York Times reports that homeowners there are tired of being “historic,” at least in terms of the Planning Department red tape that comes along with that official adjective. These Dubocians, who don’t enjoy year long delays, exorbitant permit fees, nor… read more…

Curbed SF: It’s a bit of deja-vu for those of us who remember the Dot.com boom of yester-decade: Rueters reports that IPO-driven real estate prices are becoming more common with companies like Zynga and Yelp poised to enter IPO status. And when these companies offer employees the chance to cash out before the company goes public, even the rumor of impending IPO is enough to spur optimistic homebuyers,… read more…

Curbed SF - Curbed SF has a new partnership with Zillow, so now you can search for listings directly on our site via the search module to the right. Because it’s the holidays and the holidays are about giving, starting today we’ll be writing a new weekly feature where we’ll dig into the search engine and see what totally amazing listings we can share with you. Onwards!

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Curbed SF - Via Google, a view of Sue Bierman Park from above, pre-grass The pro-Monkey Bar lobby may have won a small victory yesterday as the BOS unanimously voted to lift a 2001 ban on any structures in the lovely and newly-green Sue Bierman Park. Meaning that Rec & Parks can start planning a playground with funding to come from donations. We’re thinking it could be the first America’s Cup Playground, or… read more…

The battle continues over the fate of private tennis courts and swimming pools on the Embarcadero between Washington Street and Broadway as the 8 Washington Street project wends it way inexorably through the approval process. At stake (or perhaps, on the stake) is a 165-unit luxury and affordable housing proposal that would cut Golden Gateway’s Club’s number… read more…

San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood is full of fantastic and secretive narrow alleys and dead end one block streets. Some feature pockets of colorful Victorians, other have impressive and new contemporary abodes. All are residential. The best thing about these hidden treasures is that you’d never know they existed because they’re so inaccessible– until now. We’ve put together a map with the best and most hidden secret spots in… read more…

Here is a video presentation SFResidence has done for YouTube. We hope you enjoy it and stop by to see our new listing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MMd6uddJ9M&feature=youtu.be