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This “sensational” 4-bed, 3.5-bath Bernal Heights house hit the market a few days ago. It’s got a “serene Zen garden” (though by Zen they might just mean “peaceful”), a sauna and Japanese soaking tub, Ethernet wiring, a three-level dumbwaiter, and a master bedroom with panoramic view and another (?) hot tub. The living room staging gives it a mid-century modern air, but the house was actually built in 2006. It totals 2,318 square feet and is asking $1,595,000.
· 211 Montcalm St [Redfin]

As Mojave falls out of favor for mega-solar projects, Central Valley’s taken the lead. A large swatch of land that’s become too dry to farm is now the “perfect site” for a solar farm that’s roughly the size of San Francisco, and could generate a gigawatt of power. That’s a hell of a lot of solar panels. [CBS 5]

Listed for $949,000 in June 2007, the sale of the remodeled single-family home at 330 Gates closed escrow a month later for $1,250,000. The South Bernal home is back on the market and asking $1,195,000 in 2010. Over the…

The world of Golden State Warriors fans exploded this morning with an announcement that the team is officially seeking a new owner— a turn of events, of course, that follows rumors last year that a new owner would seek to move the team to San Francisco and build an arena “downtown.” Back in October, it was still wild-speculation season, even if the nugget was grounded by one fairly confident-sounding sports columnist. According to the Merc, there are a number of people in the running to snap up the Warriors, including Larry Ellison and 24 Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov. The one thing “almost all” these potential new owners have in common: they want to move the team to San Francisco, and build a privately financed arena — brace! — in the Giants parking lot south of AT&T Park. That might just be news to the Giants and their Mission Rock development partners, who are still planning a massive (if slightly scaled down) neighborhood-making project there — one that would likely need significant reworking to accommodate a basketball stadium. Seatbelts: buckled.
· Warriors sale process: Ellison one of many interested parties, strong SF bid likely [Merc]
· Rumormongering: Warriors Arena Promises an Epic Shitshow [Curbed SF]
· New Nabe Alert: Mission Rock, aka Seawall Lot 337 [Curbed SF]

The list price for 1940 Broadway #7 has just been reduced $275,000 (5%), now asking $5,225,000 for the full floor at The Heights (purchased for $5,245,000 in February 2007). ∙ Listing: 1940 Broadway #7 (4/3.5) – $5,500,000 [Joel Goodrich]…

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The FOR-SITE Foundation, the local nonprofit that commissioned the 90-foot “Spire” installation in the Presidio in 2008, is launching another Presidio art project this May. “Presidio Habitats” will be comprised of a number of conceptual art-cum-animal habitat projects, the first of which we get a peek of today on Michelle Kaufmann’s blog. The prefab and green architect has apparently been keeping busy since selling off the designs for her modular homes — this morning she posted her concept for a hummingbird habitat strung together from rusted and sawed off steel pipes. The varying heights of the pipes “create angles and new land forms changing the planes of the existing ground to maximize the play and flights of the hummingbirds while they are feeding on the flowers and in drinking in the cascading water fountains.” Anything that maximizes the play of hummingbirds is good in our book. According to FOR-SITE’s site, the projects will stick around for a year.
· Presidio Habitats Project [Michelle Kaufmann Studio]

It’s actually a floor below the penthouse, but as plugged-in people know, two-bedrooms at The Hamilton are rather rare and as such 631 O’Farrell #2001 managed to catch our attention, especially seeing as how it is the highest of the…

While Art in Storefronts moves on from its “successful first round” and onto Chinatown, a town in the U.K. has done one better with “fake businesses.” The “flat pack” simulations of various shop types help passersby imagine a day long past (or perhaps coming soon!) where streets are filled with actual businesses, rather than their discarded shells. Even pretend is better than nothing. [BBC, previously]

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A few months ago we caught an open-air shower on the deck of 188 South Park’s penthouse unit — this past weekend, a 2-bed, 2-bath unit in the Adele Santos-designed building has also hit the market. The 1,578-square-foot tri-level loft might owe some of its “architecturally stunning”-ness to its Muji-style minimal staging, with all that smooth smooth buttery whiteness — which is frankly kind of nice after so much IKEA art. It’s got two parking spaces, HOAs of $300, and an asking price of $1,250,000.
· 188 South Park St #3 [Redfin]
· On the Market: $1.75M for a South Park Nude Deck Fantasy [Curbed SF]

Purchased for $550,000 as a five-unit building back in June 1998, the 1890’s “Eastlake Stick” Victorian at 1322 Masonic has since been converted back into a grand single-family home, a two-car garage has been added, and the living area…