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Pepsi rewards Facebook Likes with sodas
Pepsi gives free cans of soda for each Facebook “like” via their new Like Machine, bringing the online world offline in a clever ad stunt. Follow The American Genius on Facebook for exclusive & breaking business stories Get more Business News at AGBeat
Weekend Open House: It Ain't Easy Being Green in Eagle Rock
Open House: Sunday, June 15th, between 2 PM - 5 PM 1136 Neola Street, Eagle Rock Price: $479,000 Beds, Bath: 2, 1 Floor Area: 868 sq. ft. Per the Listing: "COTTAGE IN...
Week in Review: Venice's ZipLine Readiy to Go, Metro Map Grows
This Week's Top Stories: The newly released official Metro map, now including the Purple Line Extension and the Crenshaw Line, shows the extent of growth of our barely two decades old system. So far, so good in the Arts...
On the Racked: Roots on Abbot Kinney, New Fashion HQs at Alameda Square, Andy Dick Hosts Downtown Modernism
VENICE: Take a look inside Roots's airy storefront on Abbot Kinney. As a salute to the structure's original 1921 design, the renovation reused and repurposed various materials, like the lath taken from the original plaster walls and used to...
Mad Menning: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner talks...
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner talks to PreservationNation about the way the show brings attention to architecture and design, whether Don Draper is a preservationist (duh), and his favorite location (the more or less ruined La Villa Basque in Vernon)....
Holy Wars: Plans to Build a Megachurch Behind Atwater Village Costco
A new "megachurch" has been proposed for a site just behind Atwater Village's temple of commerce, Costco. According to the Eastsider, the "supermarket-sized church, athletic facility and sprawling parking lot would be built on a 20-acre parcel now occupied by...
Lifestyles of the Rich and Richer: Producer Building His Own Personal Art Museum in Bev Hills
Forrest Gump producer/Loews heir/New York Giants co-chair Steve Tisch has an impressive personal art collection and is running out of wall space in his 1928 Paul Williams-designed house in Benedict Canyon. His interior designer, who was attempting "a homey,...
Snow Job: Thinking of entering the lucrative world...
Thinking of entering the lucrative world of local ski resort operations? It's maybe not such a hot idea, according to a new study out of UCLA: Los Angeles could lose 40 percent of its snow in areas like "the northern...
Rendering Reveal: West Hollywood's Modernist Office-to-Condo Conversion Sprouts Additions
A controversial plan to expand and convert the mid-century ICM Building on Beverly Boulevard into a mixed-use development with condos, offices, and shops is slowly making its way through the approvals process. WEHOville reports that West Hollywood's design review...
Eater Tastings: Heartbaker and Virgil's Sea Room Now Open; Tamale Lady Troubles; More!
em>Welcome to Eater Tastings, where Eater SF guest editor Jay Barmann shares the best restaurant and bar news of the week. The "local heroes" wall at Virgil's Sea Room. THE MISSION—Openings have definitely picked up, and this week marked the...
Nextdoor Adopted by New York City
We’ve covered Nextdoor before. It was announced today that New York City has adopted Nextdoor — in a big, big way. How are you reaching your farm? Have you started a Nextdoor community for your neighborhood? How are you planning to win the neighborhood opportunity? The post Nextdoor Adopted by New York City appeared first on GeekEstate Blog.
Friday Flash: Thoughts on the CAR forms issue
The California Association of Realtors is in a public fight over the transaction forms it produces – or, more pointedly, … Read more
City Hall RoundUp: Van Ness Mini Golf; Divis and Fillmore Get Neighborhood-y; Rising Rents and Transit Infrastructure; More!
Welcome to Curbed's new series City Hall Roundup, where we follow-up on the Board of Supervisor and Planning Commission votes of the week. We sit through the hearings so you don't have to. Did we miss an item you're curious...
Celebrity Real Estate: Tom Hanks Selling Weirdly Grandmotherly Old Pac Pal House
Two years after springing for this modern number in the Palisades, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are looking to unload an old house--it hit the market today asking $5.225 million. The two may be in the same neighborhood, but...
On the Market: Is This Napa Mansion Really The 'Best Estate in the U.S.'?
According to the brokerbabble, this 32-room Napa Valley mansion was "recently named International Property Awards' 'Best Estate in the United States.'" Unfortunately, the International Property Awards, a real estate trade organization, hands...
New to Market: Technicolor Modern in Silver Lake Asking $1.699 Million
This Skittles-hued house in the Silver Lake hills was originally built in 1951, but per its listing has been recently reworked by Woodbury School of Architecture's dean Norman Millar. Sited on a...
On the Market: $3.5M Will Get You SF's Second Most Expensive One Bedroom
The very prestigious title of the Most Expensive One Bedroom for Sale in San Francisco still goes to unit #1601 at 1250 Jones Street that's asking $3.95M, but now there's some close competition with unit 2A at 1001 California hittin...
Construction Watch: Rincon Hill's Rene Cazenave Apartments Show a Little Skin
The screening at 530 Folsom Street is being removed, revealing the façade of what will soon be the first completed project of the Transbay Redevelopment Area, according to the Community Housing Partnership, who is developing the site in conjunction...
The Brokerbabble Glossary: Decoded: the Most 'Luscious' Listings in the Country
Welcome back to The Brokerbabble Glossary, where Curbed takes a word or phrase that shows up repeatedly in listings and deciphers its true meaning. Ideas? Hit up the tipline. The majority of the time, when the word "luscious" is use...
Bay Bridge Renamed?: A group of state legislators think...
A group of state legislators think the name "Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge" has quite a ring to it and are pushing to rename half of the so-called "Bay Bridge"—or more precisely, its the western span between SF and Yerba...
