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Hunting More Welcoming Home Prices For SF’s “Forgotten Middles”
Having left their hearts in San Francisco during the depths of Covid, people are returning to the City by the Bay. Lots of them have been drawn by the rebounding sense of normalcy afforded by the city’s comparatively high rates of inoculation. Many have also been lured by a renewed focus on what might be […]

Buyers Looking Up to Townhomes
An increasing number of cities are considering dropping single-family zoning preferences to encourage more housing. In Northern California alone, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose are looking into it while Berkeley already voted to end such zoning by the end of 2022. The trend is likely to increase interest among homebuyers who are looking up, […]

San Francisco Bayview Restaurateur Provides Community Support
Bayview Restauranteur and Friend of The SF Shipyard Wins Jefferson Award for Public Service. Bayview resident and restauranteur Kristin Houk was the recent recipient of the Bay Area Jefferson Award of public service. The owner of Tato, All Good Pizza and Café Alma, three local eateries in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods, was recognized for her […]

Development at The SF Shipyard
The SF Chronicle recently published an update on Lennar’s The San Francisco Shipyard masterplan community. Covering the community’s ongoing headway to start another phase of construction to provide much needed housing in the area, the article also highlighted the community’s incredible price points for new homes within the city. Current homeowners spoke with the reporter […]

Lennar Announces Opening and Virtual Tours of Last East-Facing Palisades Homes at SF Shipyard
Lennar announced the opening of the final east-facing phase of Palisades, part of the vibrant SF Shipyard community in the South Waterfront/Hunters Point area of San Francisco. Limited opportunities remain with expansive, east-facing bayfront vistas. Many more Palisades homes with waterfront views are still available, as well as homes in the Shipyard’s Monarch and The […]

Designer Profile: Architect Ron Metzker creates contemporary masterpieces and The SF Shipyard
Ron Metzker, principal of LPAS architects, started a love of architecture as a kid, checking out architectural books from the library and building small structures from scrap wood. Today, with a project-portfolio across the spectrum, Metzker says his style tilts toward modern design — which the Chronicle describes as “contemporary masterpieces” — including the SF […]