If a property goes unrented for 182 days, the landlord is taxed at a rate of $250 times the width of the storefront in feet.

San Francisco firefighters contained a two-alarm fire in the city's Mission District early Thursday morning, according to city fire officials.

This article is partly a republication of a Client Alert that was issued on December 6, 2022 titled “San Francisco’s Commercial Vacancy Tax.” Readers who have already read the original ...

An interactive map made by the San Francisco Chronicle lets you explore how bad the city's commercial real estate crisis has become since 2020.

San Francisco's mayor and other leaders introduced a legislation to convert empty downtown offices into housing.

San Francisco’s Vacant to Vibrant pop-up program is about three weeks in, with the vibrance more like a promising spark. The program in the Financial District has 17 budding businesses in nine ...

Remember the vacant storefront tax to penalize San Francisco landlords who continue to leave their commercial spaces empty? Here's how that's going.

San Francisco has unveiled the first round of "pop-up" businesses that have been chosen to occupy rent-free empty downtown retail spaces as part of the city's new Vacant to Vibrant program.

Ian Jacobs, a descendant of a real-estate clan, is bidding on near-vacant San Francisco office buildings ...