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Downtown Development: The Latest Info on 106 Downtown Projects

From Chinatown to South Park, from City West to the Arts District, housing, retail and office efforts are underway ... Los Angeles was chosen over a site on San Francisco’s Treasure Island. The museum ... read more

‘Mr. Downtown’: Kennedy Wilson’s Justin Weiss on the Evolution of Downtown LA

There are numerous properties in South ... Soho and San Francisco have come in and invested major dollars into that area. It’s really exciting. You have buildings that are selling for $700 a foot in t... read more

For Californians living in their cars, a church parking lot can briefly be home

In the two years that John slept in his car on the streets of San Francisco ... parked in a corner of a church parking lot in this suburb an hour south of San Francisco. “But being here gives me a fee... read more

Amid booming economy, homelessness soars along US West Coast

The median one-bedroom apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area ... Paige Clem sits in the car she lives in along with her husband and three dogs outside a church where free food was being distributed ... read more

‘I don’t want to leave:’ South Bay renters displaced to make way for buyers

It’s another in a steady stream of proposals to tear down low-cost rental housing in Mountain View and make way ... is represented by Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto and San Francisco-based ... read more

It's OK to miss the spread-out L.A. of yesterday. But nostalgia can't stop us from building a smarter city

Never mind that, as community planner Eric Eidlin wrote in 2010, "Los Angeles has been the densest urbanized area in the United States since the 1980s, denser even than New York and San Francisco ... ... read more

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

The Amazon basin, it seems, will get a temporary reprieve from dam construction — a policy shift thought to be largely the result of the current disarray of the government due to the Lava Jato (Car Wa... read more

The shiny new neighborhood exposing everything that’s wrong with SF

It’s lunchtime on a sunny California day and I’m walking down a street near San Francisco’s tallest ... a high-density housing advocate who ran for supervisor in District 6. “You can’t have tons of ca... read more

The Parking Letters

In San Francisco ... South Robertson Blvd. & Charleville Blvd., Beverly Hills. In LA you are your car—Swingers, anyone? This emphasis on cars makes the car note an especially vital mode of articulatio... read more

This Week’s Wedding Announcements

The couple’s timing was off in January 2015 after they were first introduced online and then met over a beer at Duboce Park Cafe in San Francisco ... s go,” and they embarked on a seven-hour car ride ... read more

Dodge House in West Hollywood: All that's left is the architect's genius and a cautionary tale

Dodge grew wealthier in the stock market, and after the 1906 earthquake he moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and chose ... The garage had a built-in car wash. Upstairs finishes were also practic... read more

A Tax Break to Anchor Tech Growth in San Francisco

David Augustine, San Francisco’s tax collector, said in a memo that 14 businesses had been approved for the tax breaks ... the flashy campuses of Google and Facebook, 35 miles to the south. “We feel t... read more