M arc Norton's bedroom looks out at the hollowed scaffolding where a pair of rare San Francisco cottages had stood since 1907 ...

Preservationists have long fought a developer's Noe Valley project, which the city red-tagged only after the buildings were reduced to roofs and frames.

Conley is sitting in the bar of the Phoenix Hotel, which he founded in the ’80s, scanning through his mental Rolodex of ...