My last post was over one year ago. The site at 1266 Dolores Street was pretty quiet most of 2008. This neighbor's observations:

I am not a home owner. I am just a tenant who has lived in San Francisco my entire life and in this neighborhood for the last 15 watching the Noe Valley grow gracefully until this builder came in and decided to put these buildings up (more than 20 feet taller than the neighborhood allows) overpriced, still using sub par materials and thinking they can squeeze every dime out unsuspecting buyers who want to live in this sweet neighborhood.

In November the builder began working on the second building again laying down the floors and breaking up and laying down the sidewalk, and cleaning up and putting in a yard which all look nice but if you really look closely there are bubbles in the wood and the first building has been exposed to the elements for so long that the wood is rotting and peeling away from the building. You can see it from the back side of the buildings.

Three years later the damages they did to the buildings around them have not been fixed. In fact, they threw up a wall against the building next door to cover up the damages. My understanding is that recently the Building Inspection Department didn't buy it- they cited them again.

Is this the kind of builder we want in San Francisco? Would you want to buy a new home from these guys?

more to come.