Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The chain-hate is spreading. Next stop: Van Ness. Legislation is going before the Board of Supes today that would require new chains to go through a special permitting process with the Planning Commission in order to open up shop on...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
HERE'S THE DEAL Van Ness road work: For more than a week, the left lane of a key San Francisco artery - southbound Van Ness Avenue - has been closed by orange cones and sawhorses. The street closure, which was prompted by a sinkhole, has led to traffic jams...
SFist (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Jim Herd reports that "at least 30 vehicles, mostly Chevy and Ford," are parading for Prop 8 at City Hall right now (1 p.m.) "Lots of banners, repeated honking, heading towards city hall, sirens, circling city hall over and over," we're told. Check it out if you're in the area. But do watch out for any baseball bats flying at your face, queer brethren.
SocketSite™ (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
With Argenta (One Polk) on the market as an apartment building, and a reader suggesting that The Artani (818 Van Ness) might follow suit (in terms of going rental), we’re keeping a close eye on 77 Van Ness (which we...
SocketSite™ (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
Plugged-in people knew the cuts were coming. And as a plugged-in reader reports, they’re now here. Prices at Symphony Towers (750 Van Ness) have been reduced by up to 30% or $136,000. A few examples: ∙ 750 Van Ness #T-405...
SFist (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
ALL OF THEM: Market & Van Ness When asked what newspapers and magazines she reads, Sarah Palin replied, " all of them ." All of them! And so, a meme is born. -- mattymatt , " Sarah Palin Engages in Perverse Journalistic Orgy of Excess " How could we forget such a violently vapid comment? We can't. We shan't . So let's go. Between here and Election Day, let's help Sarah and all the rest of us...
SocketSite™ (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Three weeks ago we noted a pronounced sales slowdown at Symphony Towers (750 Van Ness) and noted that they’re offering brokers 4% commissions through the end of the year. And now as a tipster forwards and the marketing company...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
No bailouts here, folks: the family-owned Ellis Brooks Chevy dealership at 1395 Van Ness will close December 15, just shy of the place's 70th birthday. The dealership is currently liquidating all stock and, as Brooks told the Chron, "No reasonable...
Gawker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Looking at the night sky in Florida last week, I remarked at a tall radio tower's two steady lights. My mom informed me that they were, in fact, the planets Jupiter and Venus (and that I was an idiot), brightly shining in conjunction for the first time in three years, and the last time for the next five. Our tech fellow Ian Van Ness snapped this photo of the occurrence from Gawker HQ's roof...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
When times start to get tough, you begin to notice that some of the businesses and people you thought would always be around are starting to fade away. Two old companies made big changes this month. One is a new car dealer on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Ellis Brooks Auto Center, a fixture on San Franciso’s Van Ness Avenue for decades, will stop selling new cars, citing the growing burden of a union pension fund and the rising costs of doing business in San Francisco.
The Orlando Business Journal (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Sperry Van Ness’s Paradigm Commercial Real Estate Group reported the sale of a vacant Class A office building in Lake Mary.
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
The Women’s International Perspective,November 21, 2008 by Nancy Van Ness - USA - Their hats adorned with artificial flowers identify them at many of the protests in which I participate. The Grannies also show up on New York City’s Union Square to sing their signature anti-war lyrics to well known tunes. I hold in mind a vivid image of some of them who were arrested for trying to stop military...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
It's no secret: the Argenta's gone rental. And it's hardly the only one. The market fallout has fancy condo properties around the city falling like dominoes, with the Artani at 818 Van Ness— still in an unfinished state— advertising a...
MalnurturedSnay.net (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... and I’ve moved to Washington D.C. Here, also, I use two Giants: the first being the store at Van Ness. Being a fellow without a car, I quickly realized how much more comfortable the re-usable bags Giant sells are for people who are going to walk two miles home with their groceries, and it’s an investment I don’t mind making: the bags cost a dollar. When you use one of these bag, Giant takes...
