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J.K. Dineen

J.K. Dineen

Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle

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Anchor Brewing has been bought by billionaire behind Chobani. Here are his plans - San Francisco ...

The billionaire behind the Chobani yogurt brand has acquired Anchor Brewing Co. with plans to modernize and reopen the historic San Francisco brand that closed last year after 127 years in operation. Hamdi Ulukaya, Chobani founder and CEO, announced Friday that his family office had bought all of Anchor’s assets: the famous steam beer recipes, the 2.1-acre Potrero Hill campus and all the brewing equipment in the De Haro Street warehouses. The price was not disclosed. Related: Anchor has a surpri…
5 months ago
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S.F. Mayor Breed is pushing for a housing plan that is more Paris, ...

Mayor London Breed is hoping that approving shorter buildings will result in more housing — and maybe less neighborhood backlash on the campaign trail. On Wednesday, Breed instructed city planners to scale back some tall heights that would be permitted under the city’s proposal to allow denser housing in many neighborhoods, changes that are needed to meet a state mandate to build 82,000 homes over eight years. Breed instead wants planners to focus on spreading out housing in more modest six- and…
7 months ago
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Rezoning plan sparks backlash in this quiet S.F. neighborhood: ‘We ...

For nearly two years, San Francisco officials have been pitching a plan to add thousands of new housing units by allowing taller apartment buildings on transit corridors: wide boulevards such as Geary, Irving and Judah, where streetcars and major bus lines ply busy shopping strips. So when Lakeside residents saw the proposed rezoning map, they were baffled to discover that nearly half of their neighborhood — an enclave of narrow one-way streets and single-family homes with lemon trees and white…
9 months ago
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These S.F. office buildings are the top candidates to convert to ho...

UPDATE: S.F. office vacancy hits another record high, but trends could change in 2024 City planning officials have approved San Francisco’s first post-pandemic office-to-residential conversion, and a new report from Moody’s Analytics suggests that 13% of the city’s smaller historic office buildings could be good candidates for housing. Planning staff recently approved a site permit for a 45-unit redevelopment of 988 Market St., the historic office building next to the Warfield Theatre. On Thursd…
11 months ago
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How bad is retail theft in S.F.? New reports show what could be a k...

While videos of brazen lootings of San Francisco chain stores continue to rack up views on social media, several new reports — as well as fresh statistics from over the Thanksgiving weekend — suggest that the city’s crackdown on organized shoplifting rings may be paying off. Larceny cases over Thanksgiving weekend were down about 75% from last year, with 100 reported thefts compared with 401 in 2022, according to the San Francisco Police Department. For the whole Thanksgiving week, there were 2…
11 months ago
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S.F. to miss state housing deadline, jeopardizing local planning co...

San Francisco is poised to miss the first deadline state housing officials have set for reforming how it approves residential development, a blown due date that could cost the city local control over how projects are entitled and permitted. Under a set of state mandates laid out in an Oct. 25 “San Francisco Housing Policy and Practice Review,” the California Department of Housing and Community Development, or HCD, gave the city 30 days to pass Mayor London Breed’s “constraints reduction” ordina…
11 months ago
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‘Historic’ NIMBY playbook hits Bay Area, and could affect new housi...

A stealth effort to have the state designate one of San Mateo’s wealthiest neighborhoods as a historic district could create a playbook for other Bay Area enclaves looking to avoid complying with new state laws requiring that denser buildings be allowed in areas zoned for single-family homes, according to housing advocates. This month, a group of San Mateo homeowners filed an application to the State Historical Resources Commission to designate San Mateo’s Baywood neighborhood as historic. If th…
12 months ago
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‘15-minute city’: One of S.F.’s biggest developments finally set to...

A new carbon-neutral Bay Area community is in motion, built from scratch with more than 10,000 residents, 20,000 well-paying jobs, hundreds of acres of open space and a solar farm big enough to provide 70% of the power the neighborhood requires. It almost sounds like the sort of sustainable utopian city Silicon Valley investors are planning for farmland in the eastern half of Solano County. But it’s not. Rather, it’s the 660-acre Baylands project on the San Francisco-Brisbane border, home of th…
about 1 year ago
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A YIMBY dream or urban sprawl 2.0? Housing activists divided over p...

To some YIMBYs the plan smacks of the kind of sprawl that has choked California’s...
about 1 year ago
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First renderings show new California city that tech billionaires wa...

UPDATE: Something felt odd about those renderings of a proposed city in Solano County. Here’s why The Silicon Valley billionaire-backed plan to build a 21st century utopian city on agricultural land on the edge of the Bay Area has a name and a website featuring the first renderings of what the Solano County dreamland might look like. The initiative’s name — California Forever — was unveiled Thursday afternoon after a two-week period in which the group’s acquisition of 55,000 acres in southeast…
about 1 year ago
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‘Hypocrisy of rich’: S.F. woman trying to shut down pickleball cour...

As an anti-pickleball crusader, Presidio Heights resident Holly Peterson would hardly seem unusual. After all, plenty of pickleball court neighbors say they are being driven crazy by the bright pock-pock-pock sounds of the country’s fastest-growing sport, a sound one British Columbia couple found so annoying they began a hunger strike to bring attention to their grievances. But, in the world of No Pickleball In My Backyard protesters, Peterson stands out for one simple reason: She literally ha…
about 1 year ago
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A nonprofit in one of California’s wealthiest cities is trying to b...

More than two years after a developer submitted a “fast track” application to build 40 units in the exclusive Marin community of Belvedere [https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Marin-s-richest-city-could-have-its-first-new-16795422.php], the town has still not scheduled a public hearing to review the project, which has provoked the formation of a well-funded nonprofit dedicated to killing the rental housing [https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayareahousingcrisis/].The application for the develo…
about 1 year ago
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Is the 50-story S.F. condo tower actually realistic, or just ‘fear-...

The latest renderings of the proposed 50-story beachfront tower in San Francisco’s Sunset District had barely been filed with city planners last week when groups opposed to dense residential development sprang into action. Within hours, the group “Our Neighborhood Voices,” which opposes Sacramento’s efforts to force cities to increase housing production, pushed out fundraising ads on social media showing the proposed 589-foot tower rising from the low-slung waterfront community. “This isn’t a jo…
over 1 year ago
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Millennium Tower: Engineer says $100 million fix has improved S.F. ...

All 18 of the concrete piles meant to stabilize San Francisco’s famously leaning and sinking Millennium Tower [https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/millennium-tower-sf-sinking-fix-condo-for-sale-18103266.php]have now been driven into bedrock, completing the $100 million fix of the luxury condo high-rise, according to the engineer overseeing the project.On Monday, project engineer Ronald Hamburger said the engineering upgrade to stop the building from tilting and sinking has “succeeded” af…
over 1 year ago
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These Bay Area officers slept in cars to avoid crazy commutes. Now,...

In the evening, when thousands of Peninsula commuters climb in their cars for the long slog back to the Bay Area’s outer suburbs and beyond, a handful of San Mateo police officers head for a modest beige building next to a Smart & Final-anchored shopping center near the crossroads of Highways 101 and 92.There, on South Norfolk Street, they can secure some sleep in one of the 12 bunk beds found in three tiny rooms that were built two years ago [https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Mate…
over 1 year ago
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Bay Area housing project on the rocks after developer calls residen...

Controversy over an affordable housing project in Marin City intensifies after developer...
over 1 year ago
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This historic building could hold the secret to saving downtown San...

The skinny, historic brick office building in Lower Nob Hill could be a poster child for...
over 1 year ago
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State housing officials scold S.F. about changes to proposed Missio...

California officials concluded that by scaling back a proposed group housing building the...
almost 2 years ago
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S.F. voters approve a tax on vacant residential units - San Francis...

UPDATE: S.F. supervisors vote to administer tax on empty homes. Here is when the first payments are due Owners of multifamily buildings who sit on vacant units for lengthy periods of time will be required to pay a tax, after San Francisco voters approved the so-called Fill Empty Homes proposition. With more than 80% of the ballots counted, Prop. M was ahead by 54% to 46% Monday morning. The measure is an effort to penalize landlords of buildings with more than two apartments who refuse to rent o…
almost 2 years ago
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Why the Nordstrom parking lot that could have been housing remains ...

A year after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors halted a 495-unit tower on a SoMa...
about 2 years ago
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S.F. just rejected another plan to turn an empty parking lot into a...

The rejection of the project by San Francisco’s Planning Commission illustrates the...
about 2 years ago