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A Car Wash Lot Sat Empty for a Decade. The Deal That Finally Fills It Says More About SF Than the Billboard Does

Greystar, the largest apartment landlord in the country, has lined up financing to put 203 units on the vacant Touchless Car Wash corner at…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsJust now

California High-Speed Rail's Own Inspector General Just Put a Date on the Cash Cliff: December 2027

California's high-speed rail project has been "running out of money" for a decade of headlines.

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics1h ago

AIPAC Money and Dueling FEC Complaints Upend the Race to Replace Swalwell

A week out from the Aug. 18 special election to fill Eric Swalwell's East Bay congressional seat, more than $5 million in outside money has flooded…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsYesterday

Lurie Brands Prop I a 'Slush Fund' — Backed by the Police and Fire Unions He Just Gave Raises

Mayor Daniel Lurie has come out against Proposition I, the November ballot measure that would steer San Francisco's real-estate transfer tax toward…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsYesterday

The Criminal Case Stopped at Two Drivers. A San Mateo Jury Put a Quarter of the Blame on the Racer's Parents.

A San Mateo County jury on Tuesday awarded $33 million to the twin girls orphaned in a 2022 Redwood City street race — and, in a finding the criminal…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsYesterday

SF Waived the Affordable-Housing Rules to Get Offices Converted. Its Latest Win, 150 Hayes, Has 104 Units and No Required Below-Market Homes.

To coax developers into turning empty downtown offices into apartments, San Francisco cut transfer taxes, rezoned commercial blocks, and eliminated…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics2d ago

Suisun City Won't Rule Out Paying a Ransom as Its Cyberattack Enters a Second Week

Asked whether Suisun City would pay a ransom to the people who crippled its computer network, Mayor Alma Hernandez did not say no.

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics3d ago

BART's Weekends Came Back. Its Weekdays Didn't — and That's the Whole Budget Problem.

Weekend riders have all but returned to BART's trains.

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics3d ago

Oakland Station Seniors Took Their Roaches to Sacramento — to the State Agency That Funded Their Landlord

More than 20 senior tenants from a deep East Oakland affordable complex bused to Sacramento last week not just to shame their property manager, but…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics5d ago

SFO's $11 Billion Building Spree Bets on Luxury — Even as Its Own Runway Work Fuels Delays

San Francisco International Airport is roughly midway through an $11 billion, decade-long capital program — pouring billions into a Terminal 3…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics6d ago

A Tourism Board Wants Alameda County, Dublin and Pleasanton to Bankroll a $365M Arena. One City Is Already Broke.

Visit Tri-Valley, the region's taxpayer-supported tourism arm, is pitching a $365 million, publicly funded event center near the Dublin/Pleasanton…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPolitics6d ago

A $25,000 Check and a Bay FC Sweatshirt: The Loophole Bankrolling Matt Dorsey

Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen can legally give Supervisor Matt Dorsey's reelection campaign no more than $500.

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsAugust 7, 2026

Lurie Says a Former Nordstrom Rack Will Become 136 Homes. The City Won't Say How Many Are Affordable.

Mayor Daniel Lurie's newest housing showpiece is a shuttered discount department store at 901 Market St.

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsAugust 6, 2026

SF Foreclosure Tax Clears Committee, Awaits Full Board Vote for November Ballot

A controversial proposal to tax foreclosure sales of commercial and multifamily properties in San Francisco has successfully navigated the Budget and…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsAugust 5, 2026

Roblox's Safety Overhaul Comes With a Wall Street Bill: San Mateo Firm Loses a Quarter of Its Value in a Day

Roblox, the San Mateo game platform that spent 2026 rebuilding itself around child safety, watched Wall Street punish that bet on Friday: shares…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsAugust 2, 2026

Newsom Finally Released His Tax Returns — Late, and Under a Federal Cloud

Gov. Gavin Newsom released four years of tax returns Friday — his first disclosure since 2022 — after years of not honoring a pledge to publish them…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsAugust 1, 2026

San Ramon Isn't Converting Its Empty Offices — It's Demolishing Them for 8,000 Homes

San Ramon's Bishop Ranch, a 585-acre corporate office park, isn't retrofitting its half-empty buildings into apartments.

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsJuly 31, 2026

The People Leaving the Bay Area to Buy Homes Aren't the Richest or the Poorest, a New UC Study Finds

Bay Area residents who leave the region are 33% more likely to own a home five years later — but a new University of California study finds the…

Bex ConnollyCity HallPoliticsJuly 31, 2026