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After several months of mum fundraising and planning, the Exploratorium released details on its new $300 million facility at Pier 15 on Thursday. The museum, which opened at the Palace of Fine Arts nearly 44 years ago, has been working towards the move for years. And with $250 million raised–80 percent of its goal–plans are [...]
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The seasonally adjusted annual pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up to 389,000 in September, up 5.7 percent from a revised rate of 368,000 in August and up 27.1 percent versus the 306,000 pace recorded in September of last year, an all-time low. Annual new home sales in the U.S. have [...]
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Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 23.3% on a year-over-year basis last month (492 recorded sales in September 2012 versus 399 sales in September 2011) but fell 21.3% as compared to the month prior, twice the average August to September seasonal drop of 9.8% recorded over the past eight years. An average of [...]
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The official project schedule, key dates, and milestones for building an arena upon San Francisco’s Piers 30-32 for the Golden State Warriors in time for the 2017-18 NBA season with construction proposed to start in the summer of 2014 and finish three years later: ∙ October 2012: Homeowner Association Meetings and Public Outreach ∙ [...]
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Any weekend boasting a Giants playoff matchup at AT&T Park and a 49ers home game could be considered epic by San Francisco standards. But for the first weekend of October, those contests might actually be considered the underdogs. An unprecedented confluence of major events is expected to bring more than 1 million spectators to San [...]
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Earlier this week our city by the bay earned the top spot on Businessweek.com’s top cities list for 2012. No wonder then that it just so happens San Francisco is also currently the best place to sell a home at the moment. Real estate daily deal website, Spot Property, recently released their Home Seller Index, [...]
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Buying a home instead of renting can save hundreds of dollars a monthin the Bay Area, according to a report from the online real estate search service Trulia. That’s good news for the many renters who are ready to become buyers. With a 3.5 percent mortgage and itemized deductions at the 25 percent federal tax [...]
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For the first time in 40 years, San Francisco’s premier boulevard is getting a face-lift, but there’s still plenty of debate about how to transform a thoroughfare that has vexed decades of city leaders. Market Street, from Octavia Boulevard to the Embarcadero, will be the focus of what could be a two-year, $20 million repaving project, [...]
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The San Francisco Port Commission approved a water taxi service on the bay Tuesday that by next month could be taking passengers by boat on the city’s waterfront and to other spots on the bay. Pending negotiations of a final contract, the taxi service will begin Oct. 1. Water taxis – using small launches – were [...]
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