Luxury S.F. developer ordered to pay back $48.1 million to investors after ‘fraudulent’ behavior sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f…

Five of the biggest companies in SF — Gap Levi's® Visa Wells Fargo J.P. Morgan — create volunteer coalition to clean up downtown: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/dow…

First volunteer day is today with ~250 employees picking up trash and cleaning parks.

“There’s endless conversation about streamlining, housing entitlements, but no emphasis on dealing with the reality: developers have not had access to capital.'

Aaron Peskin pitches new financing tools for 'missing middle' housing. San Francisco Chronicle

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Exclusive: Aaron Peskin announces financing plan to create more ‘missing middle’ housing in S.F. sfchronicle.com/realestate/art… via San Francisco Chronicle

Just in: More 100 units of affordable senior housing could be the first homes built as part of the $2.3B planned remake #SanFrancisco 's aging Freedom West co-op. San Francisco Chronicle

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These tech workers want to build a co-living ‘campus’ across a square mile of S.F. But for whom?

By Laura Waxmann

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“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society.”

Fascinating look at a local co-living experiment by Laura Waxmann

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This is a Must Read. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Here’s a gift link if you need it: ➡️ sfchronicle.com/sf/article/tec…

A new nonprofit envisions turning 1 sq mile in #SanFrancisco into a multigenerational 'City Campus' for communal working, experiences & living.

The project would solve shortcomings of S.F.’s “current social infrastructure' its creators say. San Francisco Chronicle

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There she is👀Ida Mojadad

An open-air rotunda garden, a night club, go-karts and more food halls — Here's how UC Berkeley and Stanford University students would redo #SanFrancisco 's dying downtown mall. San Francisco Chronicle

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Must read J.K. Dineen story on SF's 'inclusionary housing' program for middle-income households.

It's yielding mass vacancy rather than housed middle-income families.

Why? B/c of panoply of death-by-good-intention allocation & pricing rules.
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Scoop: After a city audit cast doubt over the Mexican Museum’s ability to raise the needed capital to build out its new downtown #SanFrancisco location, the nonprofit museum is revisiting its previously dismissed lawsuit against the city. San Francisco Chronicle

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Get yourself a whole office tower for a large seed round.

An office tower on the IKEA block sold for $6.5M—that's a 90% drop in value from when it last sold.

A day before losing the tower, its owner bought another office building at a discount. Read about #SanFrancisco 's crazy ownership shuffle👇 San Francisco Chronicle

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Latest: Weakness in  #SanFrancisco ’s commercial real estate market & the slow-moving recovery of economic drivers such as  #tourism  stand to jeopardize the city’s ability to repay its debt. San Francisco Chronicle

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New sublease alert: Following a challenging year for cruise's robotaxis, the company now has close to 200K square feet of #SanFrancisco office space that it no longer plans to occupy. San Francisco Chronicle

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A closer look at a stretch of Fillmore, between Clay and Pine streets, revealed a curious ownership shuffle in recent months on the ritzy S.F. neighborhood’s commercial corridor.

Buildings are quietly selling at high prices — but who is buying?
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Scoop: In the same week in which Maximus Real Estate was determined to be at risk of defaulting on $1.8B debt tied to its Parkmerced community, the city moved to collect tax payments owed by the #SanFrancisco developer for its downtown HQ. San Francisco Chronicle

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After a wave of closures, SF’s biggest mall has leased three vacant spaces. No word yet on who sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…