{"id":428780,"date":"2026-08-10T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428780\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:17:14","slug":"in-san-francisco-turning-offices-into-housing-is-a-boutique-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428780\/","title":{"rendered":"In San Francisco, turning offices into housing is a boutique business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 10, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The dusty glass and green facade of 150 Hayes St. still projects the same image it has since 1968, when San Francisco was betting on mid-size office towers to fill out its downtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">But inside, the six-story building has been sitting vacant for years\u00a0\u2014 furniture strewn about and stacked on top of each other, like a scene out of this summer\u2019s hit movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Backrooms (opens in new tab)<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">That\u2019s about to change. Last week, a team of developers filed plans with the city to convert the aging office building into 104 apartments. While they\u2019re at it, they are adding a seventh floor, stripping the exterior and replacing it with a glass and bronze skin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Heading this project is Marc Babsin of Emerald Fund, a developer who has already built three apartment towers on that Civic Center block, and Jack Sylvan of SDG, a former development director for the city who went on to work in the private sector for the likes of Brookfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 10, 2026at6:00am The dusty glass and green facade of 150 Hayes St. still projects the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3010,1337,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-428780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-housing-development","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}