Listing of the Day

Location: San Francisco, California

Price: $13.888 million

This new-build seven-level home in the heart of San Francisco’s 150-year-old Rincon Hill neighborhood features an elevator that services every floor, three fireplaces and a rooftop terrace with a built-in fire pit and dramatic city views.

“It is now set up as two separate units, but most people who are looking at it are interested in it as a single residence, either as a live/work space or for extended family,” said Frank Nolan, the president of Vanguard Properties /LuxuryPortfolio International.

The new-build seven-level home is in the heart of San Francisco’s 150-year-old Rincon Hill neighborhood.

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“Its best benefit is that it’s on a really, really quiet street that’s just a long block and across the street from a new mini-park and just blocks from downtown and the waterfront,” he said.

“It’s very, very unusual to have new construction like this down here,” Mr. Nolan said. “It’s like a New York brownstone.”

The centerpiece of the home at 17 Guy Pl. is a spiral wooden staircase that was built by hand on site over 14 months, he said. “It’s like craftsmanship from the turn of the last century.”

Other architectural details include a dramatic bronze, stone and glass entry, rift-cut white oak floors with under-floor heating, retractable skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows.

The two kitchens feature Calacatta Italian marble, Dornbracht fixtures, custom cabinetry and Miele appliances.

The ground floor, which is the first level of the main residence, holds a two-car garage, a wine room, a terrace and a large air-conditioned space that could be a studio, a gym or a media room, according to the listing.

The second floor and half of the third hold the secondary residence or guest suite, Mr. Nolan said. “It could be a separate apartment or an Airbnb unit.”

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The open-plan second floor is the main level of the guest suite, with living and dining areas and the kitchen along with an en-suite bedroom. Half of the third floor is the primary bedroom suite of the smaller unit, with an office/den and a covered walk-out terrace.

The other half of the third floor is the entry point for the main residence, with a foyer, an en-suite bedroom and a south-facing terrace.

“The fourth floor is great,” Mr. Nolan said. “To live downtown and have three en-suite bedrooms and a den on one level is rare. It’s like what you would find in a Pacific Heights mansion.”

The fifth floor, which features a great room with front and rear terraces, “is where the spiral staircase really pops,” he said. “You see all of the best high-rises. It’s very New York City.”

The dining area has a built-in bench that’s “ideal for a table that seats 10 to 12 people,” and the living area features doors that pocket into the wall, he said. “It almost doubles the living area when you can keep the doors open, which is two-thirds of the year here.”

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The entire sixth floor is the primary bedroom suite, which features another terrace, a walk-in closet, a fireplace, and a bathroom with Waterworks fixtures and Calacatta marble.

The seventh level is a full-footprint roof terrace with a barbecue area, a fire pit and “spectacular views,” Mr. Nolan said. “It’s all skyline.”

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The 7,680-square-foot house has eight bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, and one partial bathroom. There is almost 2,000 square feet of outdoor space.

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Amenities include multiple terraces, an elevator that services all levels, three fireplaces, a Crestron home automation system, a wine room and a built-in rooftop fire pit.

Amenities include multiple terraces with open views.

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Rincon Hill is a “pretty compact neighborhood and it’s diverse,” Mr. Nolan. “Because of all the new construction it has a lot of foreign buyers as well as second- and third-home owners.”

There are also a “lot of tech workers here because it’s so close to the Bay Bridge,” he said.

Agents: Frank Nolan and James Nunemacher, Vanguard Properties/Luxury Portfolio International

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Listing of the Day

Location: San Francisco, California

Price: $13.888 million

This new-build seven-level home in the heart of San Francisco’s 150-year-old Rincon Hill neighborhood features an elevator that services every floor, three fireplaces and a rooftop terrace with a built-in fire pit and dramatic city views.

“It is now set up as two separate units, but most people who are looking at it are interested in it as a single residence, either as a live/work space or for extended family,” said Frank Nolan, the president of Vanguard Properties /LuxuryPortfolio International.

The new-build seven-level home is in the heart of San Francisco’s 150-year-old Rincon Hill neighborhood.

Olga Soboleva

“Its best benefit is that it’s on a really, really quiet street that’s just a long block and across the street from a new mini-park and just blocks from downtown and the waterfront,” he said.

“It’s very, very unusual to have new construction like this down here,” Mr. Nolan said. “It’s like a New York brownstone.”

The centerpiece of the home at 17 Guy Pl. is a spiral wooden staircase that was built by hand on site over 14 months, he said. “It’s like craftsmanship from the turn of the last century.”

Other architectural details include a dramatic bronze, stone and glass entry, rift-cut white oak floors with under-floor heating, retractable skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows.

The two kitchens feature Calacatta Italian marble, Dornbracht fixtures, custom cabinetry and Miele appliances.

The ground floor, which is the first level of the main residence, holds a two-car garage, a wine room, a terrace and a large air-conditioned space that could be a studio, a gym or a media room, according to the listing.

The second floor and half of the third hold the secondary residence or guest suite, Mr. Nolan said. “It could be a separate apartment or an Airbnb unit.”

More: San Francisco Area’s New Launches: Home Buyers and Developers Are Looking Beyond the City

The open-plan second floor is the main level of the guest suite, with living and dining areas and the kitchen along with an en-suite bedroom. Half of the third floor is the primary bedroom suite of the smaller unit, with an office/den and a covered walk-out terrace.

The other half of the third floor is the entry point for the main residence, with a foyer, an en-suite bedroom and a south-facing terrace.

“The fourth floor is great,” Mr. Nolan said. “To live downtown and have three en-suite bedrooms and a den on one level is rare. It’s like what you would find in a Pacific Heights mansion.”

The fifth floor, which features a great room with front and rear terraces, “is where the spiral staircase really pops,” he said. “You see all of the best high-rises. It’s very New York City.”

The dining area has a built-in bench that’s “ideal for a table that seats 10 to 12 people,” and the living area features doors that pocket into the wall, he said. “It almost doubles the living area when you can keep the doors open, which is two-thirds of the year here.”

More: A $46 Million San Francisco Spec House Is One of the City’s Priciest Listings Ever

The entire sixth floor is the primary bedroom suite, which features another terrace, a walk-in closet, a fireplace, and a bathroom with Waterworks fixtures and Calacatta marble.

The seventh level is a full-footprint roof terrace with a barbecue area, a fire pit and “spectacular views,” Mr. Nolan said. “It’s all skyline.”

stats

The 7,680-square-foot house has eight bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, and one partial bathroom. There is almost 2,000 square feet of outdoor space.

amenities

Amenities include multiple terraces, an elevator that services all levels, three fireplaces, a Crestron home automation system, a wine room and a built-in rooftop fire pit.

Amenities include multiple terraces with open views.

Olga Soboleva

More: San Francisco Condos Rebound as Covid’s Effects on the Market Dwindle

neighborhood Note

Rincon Hill is a “pretty compact neighborhood and it’s diverse,” Mr. Nolan. “Because of all the new construction it has a lot of foreign buyers as well as second- and third-home owners.”

There are also a “lot of tech workers here because it’s so close to the Bay Bridge,” he said.

Agents: Frank Nolan and James Nunemacher, Vanguard Properties/Luxury Portfolio International

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Davenport, April 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Davenport, Iowa –

Northwest Plumbing, Heating & AC, a company based in Davenport, IA, wants to point out that with the winter season over in Davenport and neighboring areas, it would be a good idea for homeowners and other property owners to check out their heating and cooling service partner agreement for the month of April. This will allow them to have their furnace or air-conditioning units checked at a more affordable price. Service partners will also enjoy a 10 percent reduction of the service calls including for plumbing service. They are also ready to provide free estimates for heating and cooling installations if required.

Bill Durand, General Manager for Northwest Plumbing Heating & AC, says, “We are proud to have a strong team comprised of knowledgeable technicians that will help you keep your plumbing & heating in check. Northwest has been serving homeowners in the Quad Cities & beyond since 1923. We have 24/7 emergency service available for plumbing & heating services. Our Northwest team is here to help get you ready for the seasonal changes and you can be ahead of the game with our heating & cooling agreement. Get both your furnace & AC check for $198 (plus tax) for a full year. Sign up now to get your furnace checked out, and we’ll be back in the spring to make sure you are ready for the summer.”

Furnace install and repair

For the home’s heating needs, Northwest offers a range of services. These include: annual heating system check; furnace repair and installation; geothermal systems; humidifier installation; boiler repair and installation; mini splits (ductless); steam heat; hot water heat; maintenance agreement (includes annual system check); zone and high-efficiency heating and cooling systems. Those who are interested in learning about developments regarding Northwest can check out the latest article about them.

They also offer a range of air conditioning services. Their AC technicians are not just knowledgeable, experienced and skilled in the replacement of broken air conditioning units but also in repairing those that can still be repaired in order to save the customer some money. Meanwhile, their White Glove Guarantee assures customers that their technicians will leave the home as clean as it was before they came. Their AC services include: annual AC system check; air conditioner repair and installation; air purification and air quality systems; service partner agreements; mini split ductless cooling; and zoning.

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They are also ready to provide services for the plumbing system in the home, such as drain cleaning and fixing of clogged sinks. They fully understand that the failure of the plumbing system can be very stressful for the residents of a home. With regards to home plumbing, their services include: sewer repair; repair and installation of water heating system; drain cleaning; toilet repair and replacement; camera inspection; shower drain repair; sump pump repair and replacement; fixture replacements; sink repair; remote monitoring and flood alarms; battery backup systems; on demand (tankless) water heating system; leak repair; and maintenance agreement (includes annual inspection).

Northwest Plumbing, Heating & AC also provides financing options to their customers through the help of their partner, GreenSky®. With this, whether it is funding for heating or plumbing or air conditioning needs, it is easy for homeowners and other property owners to apply for financing.

Started in 1923, Northwest Plumbing, Heating & AC has evolved into one of the leading providers of residential plumbing, heating and cooling services in the Quad Cities area and surrounding regions. At present, they offer their services to the Quad Cities, composed of Rock Island and Moline, Illinois, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and the nearby regions in Rock Island, Henry, Scott, Muscatine, Cedar, and Clinton counties.

Homeowners and other property owners who require heating, cooling and plumbing services can check out the Northwest Plumbing Heating & AC website, or contact them through the telephone or via email. They are open 24 hours a day, from Monday to Sunday. Those who are interested are also advised to check the latest news article about Northwest Plumbing.

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For more information about Northwest Plumbing, Heating & AC, contact the company here:

Northwest Plumbing, Heating & AC
Bill Durand
(563) 391-1344
bdurand@northwestmech.com
5885 Tremont Ave
Davenport, IA 52807

CONTACT: Bill Durand

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San Francisco’s early and dramatic response to the coronavirus last year earned it praise as a model for fighting the pandemic. But did the city also see a spike in fatal overdoses during this period that far outpaced COVID-19 deaths?

Rocklin Republican MP Kevin Kiley said so on social media this week.

“San Francisco had twice as many overdose deaths as COVID in the past year. This true state of emergency meets with political indifference, if not encouragement, ”Kiley wrote on Twitter on April 26th.

Kiley has filed numerous legal suits against Governor Gavin Newsom over the past year, alleging the Democrat and former San Francisco mayor exceeded his authority during the pandemic.

We decided to review the first part of his claim, which was posted on Twitter and shared more than 2,000 times in two days.

Did Kiley get his numbers right? Data from the city health department and medical examiner’s office support his case.

How many people died of COVID-19 in San Francisco in 2020?

San Francisco was the first city in the country to declare a coronavirus emergency in February 2020, weeks before other major metropolitan areas. The response contributed to San Francisco having one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates among major cities early last fall.

At the end of September, there were an average of 12 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people in San Francisco. The next lower city, Seattle, had nearly three times as many deaths on average, according to Healthline.com, a health news and information website.

By the end of last year, San Francisco, home to nearly 875,000 people, had recorded 257 deaths from the virus, according to the city’s health department. That number soared this winter as the virus rose in California and many parts of the country. According to the latest data, since the pandemic began, it’s 531.

But given that relative success, has overdose deaths dwarfed the COVID-19 death toll in San Francisco, as Kiley claimed?

A look at San Francisco’s 2020 overdose deaths

We asked Joshua Hoover, Kiley’s chief of staff, to provide evidence to support the lawmaker’s testimony. He pointed to a recent New York Times article that estimated San Francisco’s overdose deaths at 713 last year, more than double the 257 COVID-19 deaths.

While the article doesn’t point to a specific source, we found a report from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that more than confirms Kiley’s claim.

The report listed 697 accidental overdose deaths from January to December 2020. The dates are described as preliminary.

This is a screenshot from a February 2021 report of accidental overdose deaths by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.

Still, that number is more than two and a half times the number of COVID-19 deaths in San Francisco last year. According to the Times article, it’s three times the city’s total as of 2017.

What caused San Francisco’s surge in overdose deaths?

San Francisco health officials said two key factors have caused the surge in overdose deaths: the spread of the powerful opioid fentanyl in the city and the isolation and despair caused by the pandemic.

“These deaths were on the rise before the Covid pandemic. But a lot about the pandemic has really affected our ability to fight it, ”said Margot Kushel, professor of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. “There is no question that we are losing far too many people to this preventable cause of death.”

Kristen Marshall is a project manager for the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project, a city-funded program that coordinates San Francisco’s response to overdose. She told the San Francisco Chronicle that the stay-at-home order caused people to use drugs alone, which can be more deadly than having someone use them under supervision.

“People at high risk were isolated, which increased the risk. The chaos put people at greater risk, ”she said. “The worst months were in the middle of summer when it was the most chaotic for this community.”

Kushel said communities can reduce overdose deaths by creating “safe injection sites” or places where people can inject drugs under the supervision of trained medical staff. These websites are legal in Canada, Europe, and Australia, but illegal in the US.

Lawyers say they offer professional oversight and the ability to connect people to treatment services. The California Senate passed SB 57 this month to launch a pilot program that will enable safe injection sites in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles Counties. To become law, it would have to be approved by the State Assembly and Governor Gavin Newsom.

Kushel said communities can also reduce harm by offering drug tests to identify deadly opioids like fentanyl, which are often mixed into other drugs without a person’s knowledge.

Hoover, Kiley’s chief of staff, didn’t respond when asked what solutions lawmakers had for San Francisco or any other place grappling with the drug overdose crisis.

Our decision

Rep. Kevin Kiley claimed San Francisco had twice as many overdose deaths as COVID-19 in the past year.

Data from the city health department and medical examiner’s office support lawmakers’ claim. It should be noted that San Francisco had one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates per capita of any major city.

Even so, city overdose deaths rose rapidly during the pandemic compared to previous years, reaching nearly 700, while the total number of coronavirus deaths was 257.

We took Kiley’s claim to be true.

TRUE – The statement is correct and nothing essential is missing.

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Asm. Kevin Kiley, Tweet, April 26, 2021.

Joshua Hoover, Asm’s chief of staff. Kiley, email exchange, April 26, 2021.

Margot Kushel, video interview, professor of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, April 26, 2021.

The San Francisco Department of Health, COVID-19 Cases and Deaths, accessed April 2021

San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office, Accidental Overdose Death Report, February 17, 2021

The New York Times, San Francisco, is grappling with another type of epidemic: drug deaths, April 23, 2021.

Sfist, SF tripled the number of overdose deaths from COVID-19 in 2020, Jan. 15, 2021

Associated Press, California Senate OKs, monitored injection sites for drug users on April 23, 2021

Scott Wiener, San Francisco Chronicle, tries again to allow SF, Oakland, and LA to open a safe drug use website on December 7, 2020.

Fodors.com, How San Francisco Sustained a Low COVID-19 Rate, Feb. 1, 2021

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SACRAMENTO (AP) – Critical care nurse Meynard Villa was on the verge of losing his family’s $ 150,000 investment in his new retirement home because he could not hire workers while grappling with a flawed government system designed to automate verification of the criminal background.

The California Department of Social Affairs’ new portal is designed to help home and community care providers, foster families, and even nannies and babysitters who apply for approval under the state background check system.

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But only 38% of the nearly 60,000 licensed facilities in California have used the Guardian tool since it went live in January, while the rest find workarounds or remain frustrated. The department had promised that the $ 788,650 portal “will ensure background checks are done faster and more efficiently while making the process easier for applicants and agencies.”

Villa said he lost two clients for his six-bed home in the city of Arcadia, Los Angeles because he couldn’t hire the staff to look after them.

“This problem is really annoying and really disappointing because you are trying to start a business, create jobs and help people at the same time,” said Villa.

The self-service tool is designed to enable employers and employees to enter the identification information of potential employees in order to conduct background checks on crime and child abuse databases. Request exceptions for minor or obsolete issues that shouldn’t preclude their from being discontinued; and add or remove employees associated with their agency.

Instead, frustrated employers said they couldn’t sign up, couldn’t get answers through the Guardian as to why the portal wasn’t working, and couldn’t get help from equally stunned government officials. Employees were able to perform separate fingerprint checks, but these could not be linked to the correct employee files.

“When I try to hire someone, I can’t verify that they’re on the system or not,” said Ara Postaldjian, who owns the Redell Pines nursing home in Monrovia, northeast Los Angeles.

He wasn’t able to hire six people until late March because he couldn’t do their background checks through Guardian.

He checked two others the old way, calling the Department of Social Services and reading out their names and Social Security numbers – the kind of practical process the Guardian was supposed to replace. Government officials were able to log into a database to delete these two employees but were unable to give him definitive answers as to whether the other six could be safely hired.

Navigating Guardian is almost a full-time job for a recruiter at the home care provider. Instead, said HR manager Vera Davidson, who works in Pasadena for the Omaha, Nebraska-based national provider.

The Guardian’s communications are “little to nothing,” and government officials are also at a loss, she said. “So if we get an answer to one of our questions, we took care of it ourselves months ago.”

However, turnaround time for completing background checks has dropped from weeks to days, largely due to “things we figured out for ourselves,” Davidson said.

Scott Murray, spokesman for the Department of Social Services, said in a statement that the new portal will quickly process and delete most applications received, while the agency “is actively working with our provider to resolve some early technical issues … so that all applications are in a period can be edited on time. “

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The California Assisted Living Association has improved Guardian since January, said President and CEO Sally Michael.

“Our experience is that problems brought to their attention are resolved in a timely manner,” she said.

That wasn’t Villa’s experience. It took weeks for a senator’s staff to gain access to the portal.

“After investing more than $ 150,000 of my family’s hard-earned money in my business, we run the risk of going bankrupt without ever caring for a resident, solely due to the high level of incompetence and red tape.” , Villa wrote to local, state and federal officials in February.

Desperate, Villa turned to his district director, congresswoman and senator Susan Rubio. Four weeks after contacting Rubio’s office, he received a call from the department and was able to log into the Guardian in mid-March. But he said he still had delays.

It is the latest in a pattern of troubled government IT systems in recent years. During the pandemic, the California Unemployment Service’s database was overwhelmed and there was a data error that overloaded nearly 300,000 coronavirus records and cost the state’s top health authority their jobs last summer.

The auditor said in January that the nearly $ 1 billion, 16-year financial information system project for California missed four consecutive deadlines to standardize the state’s accounting systems amid rising costs.

Democratic MP David Chiu suggests centralizing IT projects under the California Department of Technology to address what he calls “disjointed, duplicate” websites and reporting systems that have “resulted in many confusing and stressful user experiences.”

Applicants can still submit fingerprints separately from the Guardian portal, said Murray, spokesman for the Department of Social Services. Villa said he was never told that.

A naturalized American citizen, Villa came to the United States from the Philippines as a teenager. He said he worked in several nursing homes to graduate from college. In 2013, he graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

He spent the pandemic in coronavirus intensive care at the University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital. But what kept him up at night was the impending collapse of his business, which received his state license in early January.

“It took me seven months to license my only house – seven months. You are bleeding money, you have a day job as a nurse and you have been bleeding money for seven months, ”he said. “And when you finally get a license, you can’t hire staff because there’s no way to check them in the background.”

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