San Francisco, CA
Elon Musk may be souring on San Francisco with a move to sublease X's headquarters
Elon Musk’s X could have plans to relocate its headquarters on its cards for this year.
The company is set to sublease its San Francisco headquarters, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
JLL, the real estate firm tasked with marketing X’s office, told the Chronicle it aims to sublease nearly 460,000 square feet of office space as a “large headquarters opportunity” but suggested X might decide to occupy some of it.
Musk has been vocal in the past about his thoughts on San Francisco and slammed it as a “disaster.”
Last year, the X owner described it as a “once beautiful and thriving” city, but likened the downtown area to becoming like a “derelict zombie apocalypse” as a result of the drugs and homelessness crisis.
The billionaire told the BBC last year that he tried to turn one of the company’s offices in San Francisco into a homeless shelter, but the building’s owners would not let him.
Due to changes made to its headquarters, Musk has had his fair share of issues and run-ins with local officials.
After he took over Twitter and rebranded it to X in a $44 billion deal, the company erected a giant light-up X sign on the roof of the high-rise building.
San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection (DBI) got at least 24 complaints about the sign, which said the sign looked “poorly constructed,” could distract drivers, and disturb residents. Three days later, it was removed.
Musk also converted some conference rooms into bedrooms for workers at the headquarters. X was later told to correctly label the bedrooms as sleeping areas, according to a correction notice from San Francisco’s DBI previously reviewed by Business Insider.
X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.
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San Francisco, CA
San Francisco supervisors initially approve 3,500 new homes at Stonestown Galleria
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Atop 30 acres of parking at San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria mall may soon come 3,500 new homes, acres of open space and other community services.
In a first reading of legislation by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Myrna Melgar, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave initial approval to a plan to redevelop acres of parking at the mall into housing, senior services, child care and park space, according to a statement from the mayor’s office.
Supervisors will vote on whether to give final approval to the project—located in the southwest part of the city near San Francisco State University—at their full meeting next Tuesday, according to a mayor’s office spokesperson.
“With the approval of this transformative project at Stonestown, we are showing how we can get to yes on housing and create a more affordable San Francisco for all,” Breed said. “This investment in our city will deliver jobs, sustain the mall as an economic engine, and provide badly needed housing, including for our seniors.”
The mayor’s office statement added that the project, proposed by real estate management firm Brookfield Properties, will help execute Breed’s Housing for All plan to allow the development of 82,000 new homes to meet a state mandate over the next eight years.
San Francisco, CA
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 million mansion is a ‘lemon’ with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges
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Sam Altman’s $27 million San Francisco luxury abode is apparently plagued with issues, ranging from a leaky infinity pool to faulty piping that dumped raw sewage on the property. That’s according to a lawsuit that The San Francisco Standard linked to the OpenAI CEO’s residence, which claims Altman purchased a “lemon” with “pervasive shoddy workmanship and corner-cutting.”
The 9,500-square-foot estate is situated on San Francisco’s iconic Lombard Street, where it overlooks the city and the bay. As you can see in this walkthrough of the home, some of its key features include a four-sided infinity pool that hangs off the edge of the house, a “Batcave” leading into a garage, as well as a system that uses recycled rainwater to irrigate an expansive garden and flush toilets inside the house.
But the $27 million mansion might not be all it’s cracked up to be. In a lawsuit filed last week in a San Francisco court, Altman’s legal team claims the real estate developer Troon Pacific “misrepresented the condition of the Property as of the highest quality” to sell it “as quickly as possible.” The plaintiff also accuses the developer of failing to hire qualified contractors, some of whom allegedly “retaliated” by “filling drainage and sewer pipes with contractor bags and debris” over claims they weren’t paid on time.
That “shoddy” workmanship has led to the pool leaking a “flood of water” into the home’s lower level last August, causing “the gypsum ceiling in that area to fail” and “the widespread presence of mold,” as claimed in the lawsuit. Altman’s legal team estimates the cost to repair the pool would be upwards of $4 million, and that’s not counting the “unconnected bathroom sewer line that dumped raw sewage on the ground,” “numerous leaking irrigation lines,” the “water intrusion at skylights,” among other issues.
For now, Altman might be stuck dealing with some inconveniences around the house while the lawsuit runs its course. But maybe he can ask ChatGPT for help fixing some of its issues — or, better yet, give him suggestions on how to find a new place.
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Skate Week kicks off with pop-up venue in the Presidio
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