Exclusive: Popular Trader Joe’s in Oakland could be replaced by two apartment towers for seniors—The low-slung grocery store at 5727 College Ave. and its expansive parking lot in the city’s Rockridge neighborhood… www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

Scoop: Months after revealing controversial plans to turn a Safeway in #SanFrancisco’s Marina District into a massive housing project, the developer behind that effort is proposing to transform a Trader Joe's Joe’s in an affluent part of Oakland into a pair of towers for seniors. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: After years of sitting mostly empty in Union Square, @BarneysNY's former flagship may be getting a second act. #SanFrancisco billionaire investor Michael Moritz is said to be eyeing the iconic building at Stockton & O’Farrell. @sfchronicle.com

The real competition in downtown #SanFrancisco isn’t tower vs. tower. It’s project vs. timeline. Who’s ready when tenants are? #realestate #design #architecture #office #tech @sfchronicle.com

As #SanFrancisco pushes to turn its struggling downtown into a 24/7 neighborhood, a quieter effort in nearby Chinatown is envisioned to create lasting economic and cultural activity: The Empress of China building's sale to a nonprofit with plans for a new museum. @sfchronicle.com

No Kings organizers tout record global turnout as Bay Area protests draw huge crowds-Thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, Oakland and dozens of other Bay Area cities Saturday… www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

These autonomous robots drive to your electric car — and charge it—Moving on quiet electric motors, guided by sensors and with a charging arm stowed neatly at the front of their rectangular frames and… www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

This aging #SanFrancisco SRO in Chinatown teetered on the edge of decline. Today, its $9M rehab stands as both a quiet victory and a pointed lesson: preserving existing affordable homes may lack flashiness of new construction, but it is no less urgent. @sfchronicle.com

NEW: On Treasure Island, where the fog curls over the Bay with predictability & #SanFrancisco skyline feels within reach, something unusual disrupted the orderly neighborhood this week: a self-driving robot, the size of small refrigerator, gliding methodically across a parking lot. @sfchronicle.com

In @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com piece on future of former Contemporary Jewish Museum site, we raised concerns over need for community-led vision for arts & culture, as well as input into reorg of arts agencies and hiring of new exec leader. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...

Exclusive: Downtown San Francisco’s newest office tower is mostly empty despite improving market conditions. Its sole tenant is eyeing an exit. Now, the developer is in the process of turning over the overlooked high-rise and centerpiece of ambitious $1B '5M' plan to new owners. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Juul paid $400 million for this #SanFrancisco tower. A new deal values it at a fraction of that. @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

This Safeway on S.F. Peninsula is next up for a big housing project by Align Real Estate—The proposal involves razing the existing grocery store at the site and replacing it with a larger Safeway, topped by… www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

The owner of the Caltrain railyards in #SanFrancisco is advancing a plan that would turn the 20-acre property into a dense high-rise neighborhood with an 850-foot skyscraper, thousands of homes and millions of square feet of commercial space. @sfchronicle.com

The move reflects San Francisco’s growing pull not only in Bay Area venture capital circles but across the national startup ecosystem.

NEW: Eight Midwestern universities are opening a shared innovation hub in #SanFrancisco, establishing an unprecedented foothold near the city’s fast-growing artificial intelligence corridor in Mission Bay. @sfchronicle.com

While details of the pending deal to sell the Transamerica Pyramid remain unclear, its European buyer's entrance into the market could be a quiet but potent bet that the building, and San Francisco’s office market, still have another chapter to write. @sfchronicle.com

For the second time in half a decade, #SanFrancisco’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid will be sold. @sfchronicle.com

#SanFrancisco's new zoning plan requires a minimum # of homes to be built on select sites. The rule seems to be working as intended: A plan for ≈100 luxury homes in an upscale area has been scrapped. But is it now too expensive to build denser housing there instead? @sfchronicle.com

NEW: #SanFrancisco's retirement system, SFERS, is ready to flee troubled Mid Market, setting sights on the Financial District. Could a last min intervention by downtown Supervisor Matt Dorsey keep 100+ office workers in an area that desperately needs them? @sfchronicle.com

Read @laura-waxmann.bsky.social's @sfchronicle.com article about our lawsuit against SF! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...

Mayor Lurie’s signature housing plan is now under attack from both sides of S.F.’s housing wars—The dueling attacks underscore the political tightrope Lurie is walking… www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

The Trump administration has given the #SanFrancisco Housing Authority 30 days to verify the citizenship status of an unspecified list of tenants who are receiving rental assistance from the agency, which began reaching out to households last week. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Weeks after the San Francisco Centre mall closed the book on four decades in the city’s downtown, the property at Fifth and Market streets is on the verge of selling to new owners — probably at a deep discount. @sfchronicle.com

Anthropic has landed as expected. One of the artificial intelligence sector’s marquee companies closed a deal Friday to occupy all of 300 Howard, in what is expected to be one of largest single-tenant office leases signed in downtown #SanFrancisco since the pandemic. @sfchronicle.com

Scoop: San Francisco’s office recovery is increasingly being written by artificial intelligence, with two AI companies moving toward significant leases in Showplace Square — a neighborhood that previously symbolized the city’s tech-era pullback. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Major shakeup at iconic Transamerica Pyramid is underway, leaving in doubt the future the NY real estate entrepreneur whose management of the $1B project has been celebrated as one of few recent successes in downtown #SanFrancisco.

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @laura-waxmann.bsky.social, @sahotchkiss.bsky.social and author Jeff Selingo about what Vanderbilt's purchase of the California College of the Arts means for the Bay Area, arts in our region, and higher education overall. ❓What are your Qs about the deal? 📻 Listen:

I’ll be on KQED Forum this morning discussing the closure of the California College of the Arts, Vanderbilt University‘s takeover, and what it means for #SanFrancisco‘s cultural and economic future. Tune in at 9am 📡 @kqedforum.bsky.social

Movement on #SanFrancisco's notoriously stalled Oceanwide Center. Control of the project was just transferred at auction from its troubled developer to a lender. This is a big moment for downtown's office market. The foreclosure clears path for new developer/investor to step in. @sfchronicle.com

Long cast as a scenic, quiet alternative to the rest of #SanFrancisco & its frenzied rental market, the Presidio has delivered its tenants a massive jolt. On this national park land—exempt from local rent-control—hundreds of residents are confronting steep rent hikes of up to 10%. @sfchronicle.com

EXCLUSIVE: Vanderbilt University's expansion into the #BayArea reaches beyond the school’s purchase of the California College of the Arts campus in #SanFrancisco: It includes a prominent campus in an upscale Oakland area that's long been slated for a major housing development. @sfchronicle.com

NEW: Though #SanFrancisco Mayor Daniel Lurie urged major academic institutions to open a campus in city’s faltering downtown, Vanderbilt University chose instead a fast-growing pocket of the city—dashing hope for a much-needed boost to city's core. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Lawsuit challenges S.F. mayor’s housing plan, sending ‘Family Zoning’ to court—The lawsuit underscores that, despite years of work on the plan, the fight over the future of San Francisco development… www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

Scoop: Faced with bankruptcy as a result of its acquisition of Neiman Marcus, Saks Global is selling a major property in #SanFrancisco's Union Square that it acquired in 2024 as part of the merger. The deal comes amid news of Saks CEO stepping down. @sfchronicle.com

The 25-story tower pitched to replace a Safeway zoned for 4 stories in #SanFrancisco's affluent Marina District is an interesting case study for what’s to come in city's rapidly evolving housing landscape—along with the understanding that the building could have been much taller. @sfchronicle.com

NEW: The #SanFrancisco group seeking to shape downtown’s post-pandemic rebuild has secured $60M+ in early commitments from list of corporate/philanthropic heavyweights, including OpenAI, Amazon and Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective. @sfchronicle.com

EXCLUSIVE: A developer's recent push to transform 3 Safeway sites across #SanFrancisco into housing is not the full story: Align Real Estate filed plans to develop a 25-story apartment complex where a Safeway sits in the wealthy Marina District. @sfchronicle.com

When Brownstone Shared Housing’s $700/month sleeping pods in #SanFrancisco were slapped with an eviction notice, most expected that might be the end of the co-living experiment. Instead, the startup bought a building for a 400-bed megadorm. @sfchronicle.com

NEW: $1B lawsuit over troubled #SanFrancisco Shipyard cleanup may end with just $1,200 payout for each resident. @sfchronicle.com #sanfrancisco #realestate #housing #navy #tetratech

JUST IN: Anthropic is in talks for decade+ lease for a vacant building near Salesforce Park. Most new leases by nascent AI startups have been short-term, so Anthropic's pending deal would be a big sign of confidence for AI & SF's struggling office market. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Known for steep narrow streets & storybook cottages, Bernal Heights has resisted change for decades. Now, a plan for 370 homes at a #Safeway site on the flats below Bernal’s western slope could usher in major transformation. #sanfrancisco #realestate @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Safeway is slated to shutter its store near #SanFrancisco's Ocean Beach temporarily as developers plan to build a major housing complex anchored by the grocer in its place. @sfchronicle.com

For weeks, San Francisco residents and officials have been slamming the Navy for waiting nearly a year to disclose that a radioactive heavy metal was found the former Shipyard. On Monday evening, Navy officials took a rare step during a heated community meeting: They apologized. @sfchronicle.com

A legal dispute between the ownership group of San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid & a private club that was supposed to fill the iconic building’s first floors reached new heights, with claims that investments into group’s holdings were used to fund their “lavish” lifestyles. @sfchronicle.com

San Francisco’s largest shopping mall is now under bank ownership after years of financial turmoil and a retail exodus, with lenders now moving to sell the struggling downtown property through a newly hired real estate brokerage. @sfchronicle.com

“A ballroom can be in any city—but if you’re bringing people to #SanFrancisco and you’re already paying that premium, you might as well bring people to a space that has that unique San Francisco character.” @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: Massive housing plan would bring 1,800 units to site of abandoned S.F. Safeway—A new proposal to redevelop an abandoned Safeway in San Francisco’s Western Addition would… www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s... @laura-waxmann.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

NEW: #SanFrancisco Shipyard community members say Navy’s credibility took another hit this week when a report, covering the same period airborne radioactive material was detected but making no mention of it, surfaced. @sfchronicle.com

Exclusive: One of the Bay Area's most experienced developers is targeting what is viewed as the centerpiece of the #SanFrancisco Union Square shopping district’s decline and potential comeback: The massive Macy's flagship department store. @sfchronicle.com