Adam L. Brinklow

1 week ago | thefrisc.com | Adam L. Brinklow

A sprawling Marina District building designed by San Francisco’s most famous homegrown architect became a city landmark only six months ago. It’s already embroiled in a fight in which each side claims the other is in danger of destroying this SF classic forever. “We all as San Franciscans have a stake in this site.

2 weeks ago | thefrisc.com | Adam L. Brinklow

San Francisco’s ceiling could soon rise. A plan is on the table to lift building heights along main streets of key neighborhoods and allow denser residential construction. It could spur a population boom in areas that have been low-rise since an anti-development revolt capped heights in the 1970s. More housing, advocates say, will make the city more affordable.

3 weeks ago | thefrisc.com | Adam L. Brinklow

If you think of Fisherman’s Wharf, and visions of clam chowder in a sourdough bowl and Pier 39 sea lions make you smile, then good news. San Francisco, desperate for a post-pandemic recovery, is leaning hard into the wharf’s status as its top tourist draw and huge economic engine. But wait, there’s more. San Francisco also sees Fisherman’s Wharf as a prime place to net potentially thousands of new homes.

4 weeks ago | thefrisc.com | Adam L. Brinklow

Behind the plywood that covers the entrance of the historic Castro Theatre, a major renovation is underway. Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment, now the venue’s operator, has posted a notice asking the neighborhood’s forbearance (“please pardon our dust and noise”) and listing all the coming rewards: “much-needed” mural and plaster restoration, state-of-the-art heating and cooling, added bathroom capacity, and more.

1 month ago | thefrisc.com | Adam L. Brinklow

In 2011, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved one of the city’s most ambitious housing plans, an overhaul of the 1940s-era Parkmerced, a small neighborhood next to San Francisco State University. The redevelopment was supposed to yield about 5,700 new homes and replace 1,500 more from Parkmerced’s aging stock, a remarkable bounty given how the city’s west side had for decades resisted new development. Fourteen years later – nothing.