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Preliminary July labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.9%, 8.2% and 9.0% respectively, up 0.1 percentage points for San Francisco and San Mateo and up 0.2 percentage points in…

Built in 2000 and sold for $535,000 in March of that year, 662 Capp Street #3 resold for $780,000 in November 2004 for average annual appreciation of 8.4% over those 4 years. As a tipster notes, it’s apples to…

While the pace of existing U.S. home sales increased 7.3 percent from June to July (the biggest monthly gain “since records began in 1999″) and 5 percent year-over-year, forced sales are driving the activity (31 percent of sales in July…

As a plugged-in tipster points out, the Landmark Burr Mansion (1772 Vallejo) is coming soon. A bit of history on the house and Burr: The Italianate mansion on Vallejo Street, with slanted bays and a Mansard roof, was designed…

[The Renzo Wave, courtesy Curbed SF Flickr photog jim_malone]

· Fisherman’s Wharf latest to get tilt-shifted [Vimeo]
· An architectural tour of the Outer ‘Set [TOS]
· Twitter and Facebook: HQ interior porn [Valleywag]
· San Jose: one of the 10 best cities for kids [USN&WR]
· Oakland’s compost power plant; what was that smell again? [LAT]
· Cool: the “ghost streets” of San Francisco [Streetsblog]

The sordid CitiApartments tales do not stop. The latest chapter in the ongoing saga has the management company finally returning those security deposits they were once too broke (so they said) to return. Except, at least in this one case, the check bounced. But the fuming renter was able to extract another check from them. From the same account. A little bit of advice from the Citi people: Just wait a few hours before depositing that, could you? [SF Appeal, previously]

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Above is a single-family, 1,300 square footer in Bernal Heights, half of a pair at the end of a “very steep cul-de-sac”— this one being 350 Bradford and the other being 340 Bradford. They’re both 3-bedroom and 2.5 bath, and LEED Platinum (!), and go for almost the same price, $968,000 (and $959,000, if you must know). The difference, and the difference is key: one’s a dark mossy green, the other a squirrelly gray. So really, you haven’t felt this torn between two essentially identical products since the iMac came in Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power.
· 350 Bradford St [Redfin]
· 340 Bradford St [Redfin]

Pre-broken news reports have it that a two-alarm fire in the Financial District this morning was burning at none other than Tadich Grill, said to be the city’s oldest restaurant. The fire’s been put out, and it seems the damage was minimal enough to warrant a Tuesday re-opening — clearly an opportunity for the type of people who like that burned hot dog taste. [Eater SF]

The propaganda machine website for the Twisty Cylinder condos at 555 Washington St has been up for a good few weeks now, and the developers certainly haven’t skimped on the marketing copy details. A taste: “The new tower fits comfortably into the skyline and helps to transition between the City’s tallest building (the Pyramid) and its neighbors to the east. With a rectangular base that gently twists into a circle at the top, the building’s sweeping curve complements the angular Pyramid and plays an appropriate supporting role to its iconic neighbor.” Better yet, the completion of 555 Washington, along with the retrofit of the neighboring Transamerica Pyramid to environmentally friendly standards, will turn the whole block into a “first-of-its-kind … Green Island” of sustainability. An offensive jab at earth-hating NIMBYs! Be still, our cynical hearts.
· 555 Washington [Website]
· Critic: Time to Move Past the 80s and Rethink Downtown [Curbed SF]
· Twisty Cylinder to Play Sidekick to Transamerica’s Pyramid [Curbed SF]

Our weekend news roundup caught some special neighborhood phenomena this week: 1) a “mysterious odor” described as “ripe garbage” or “open sewer” in the Sunset, the Richmond, and even the Financial District, and 2) a delicious street food festival in the Mission! Yuck and yum. Yin and yang. Cosmic smell balance: thankfully intact. [CBS 5, Examiner]