Bay Tennis Club Is Closing, Condos Likely Incoming

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San Francisco Tennis Club members fended off a potential bulldozing of their recreational space in 2008 when a developer planned to build more than 500 condos in the club's place. But now, their luck seems to have run out: York Capital Management and San Francisco-based JMA Ventures have bought the building, and Socketsite is betting that condos are coming soon. The site is approved for a 65-foot (about six stories) building, but "a pending Central SoMa Plan could up-zone the Tennis Club site for development up to 200-feet in height," the website writes.

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