Housing developers snap up KRON TV building at 1001 Van Ness, up to 200 units planned

Blanca Torres Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Email | Twitter | Google+ | LinkedIn New owners of the KRON TV headquarters at 1001 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco plan to transform the site from office to residential. The property joins a slew of new housing proposals along Van Ness and sits just two blocks from the $2 billion rebuild of the California Pacific Medical Center. A partnership between South Beach Partners and Oryx Partners bought the 106,777-square-foot building that was owned by Media General, KRON’s parent company, since 1967. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The station plans to move to a new space in the north waterfront later...