Construction Sector

America's Cup: Deal Nearly Funded Race with Pricey Condos

Michelle Le Update: Missing Student Case Now a Homicide Investigation

Michelle Le was set to graduate from nursing school next year​UPDATE: Police are now telling reporters that all signs point to homicide in the case of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student. Police released as statement, saying after extensive interviews and forensic investigations of her abando ... More >>

SFPD wants to recruit suburbocops from outside the city

Michelle Le was set to graduate from nursing school next year​UPDATE: Police are now telling reporters that all signs point to homicide in the case of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student. Police released as statement, saying after extensive interviews and forensic investigations of her abando ... More >>

Unlike Pleasanton, San Francisco Keeps its Anti-Housing Laws Off the Books

When it comes to quelling housing development, there's the law and there's the law...​Pleasanton city fathers spent this week in conniption fits after a Superior Court judge ruled that the city can't cap its number of housing units at 29,000. Pleasanton now faces a choice of halting all commercial ... More >>

Union Official: Contractor Facing Scores of Fraud Charges in E. Bay 'Pulled Same Scam' in San Francisco -- and Then-Mayor Willie Brown Was Warned About This

Don FeriaA woman is led away by police during a May raid on NBC General Contractors' Oakland offices​On Wednesday, we wrote about the beleaguered NBC General Contractors, a company facing 40 felony counts in Alameda County for allegedly ripping off its vulnerable, Chinese immigrant workers and the ... More >>

'How's Business?' San Francisco Builder: 'What Business?' -- Home Construction Totals Hit Bottom, Start to Dig

The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

Houseboats? Houseboats!

The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

Building Overtime

Off-duty police officers making time and a half are swarming over construction sites, handing out tickets. Only in S.F.

SF Weekly Letters

Off-duty police officers making time and a half are swarming over construction sites, handing out tickets. Only in S.F.

Readers Respond to Article on SF's New Seismic Standards, or Lack Thereof

Off-duty police officers making time and a half are swarming over construction sites, handing out tickets. Only in S.F.

Letters to the Editor

Week of 3-28-2007

Hard to Be Really Green

Let's scrap the city's weak, pale-green environmental standards and actually take the total environment into account

The Bayview Battler

More than ready to take on politicians and redevelopers, Willie Ratcliff is in the most important fight of his life.

Bridge Out

A look at the comically delayed Fourth Street drawbridge project, and how the city's Byzantine contracting system costs millions

Arrested Development

Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors

The Looking-Glass Campaign

For Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzalez, ideological labels may be misleading, or even drawkcab

The World According to Bechtel

There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

It's a Bechtel World

Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

The Fix Is In

At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

Legends in Our Own Minds

A new report shows the housing shortage wasn't caused by the dot-com boom -- but by lack of housing construction

Firehouse Blues

Firefighters are wondering why the renovation of two stations was awarded to a contractor with a history of construction problems

Family Fortunes

Contractors accuse the Examiner's owners of not paying their bills

Dirty Pool

As the Bayview waits for a rebuilt MLK pool, the project, a stated mayoral priority, keeps gobbling money and time--making it the prototypical city contracting fiasco.

Axing Permission

Everyone who needs an affordable apartment loses when NIMBYs get to appeal housing permits to the Board of Supervisors

Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

Disaster Plans

Face it -- Props K and L both stink as ways to manage growth. But we have another option.

Past Imperfect

Herb Caen-inspired nostalgia is no substitute for dealing practically with the dot-com boom

The Case for Ending Rent Control

Herb Caen-inspired nostalgia is no substitute for dealing practically with the dot-com boom

Matt Smith

Parking Problem

San Francisco International Airpork

How the SFO construction program went $1 billion over budget. Yes, billion. With a B.

Tragic Ending

Toni Choate killed in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash

Welcome Home

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Mulch

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Hear This

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Safety Zone

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Minority Report

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Dog Bites

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs