Increased plans have been filed again for the residential infill at 3403 Piedmont Avenue on Pill Hill, Oakland. This is the second time in as many years that oWow has increased the potential residential capacity of the 2022-approved project. The City approved plans for 73 units in 2022 and 93 units in 2023, and will now consider plans to replace the Saw Mill Furniture Building’s surface lot with 105 units.
The City of San Francisco has approved plans for a nine-story residential infill at 1401 Folsom Street, and recent activity has been filed regarding the environmental mitigation for the construction of the site in SoMa, San Francisco. The proposal would add nearly a hundred rental apartments above retail to the corner lot currently occupied by a surface parking lot. RG Architecture is responsible for the application as the project sponsor.
Affirmed Housing has taken over plans for the residential proposal at 2116 Brush Street in West Oakland, Alameda County. The affordable housing developer is now seeking to build a smaller complex dedicated to senior housing. Additional details have yet to be shared.
The San Francisco Planning Department has approved plans for a two-unit project at 49 Hopkins Avenue on Twin Peaks, San Francisco. The approval includes the retroactive legalization of the illegal demolition of Largent House, the 1935-built home designed by the prominent modernist architect Richard Neutra. Despite the unanimous vote in 2018 by the Planning Commission to prompt the property owner to rebuild a replica of the house, a legal battle and settlement has allowed the owner to pursue new plans.
New permits have been filed for a small mixed-use infill at 2445 Ocean Avenue by the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco. The proposal will replace a single-story commercial structure with four floors of offices and housing. Rajesh Patel is listed as the property owner through 2445 Ocean LLC.
