Articles by Andrew Nelson

Transbay Block 4 tower full view, architecture by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Permit Progress on Transbay Block 4 Tower at 200 Main Street, SoMa, San Francisco

New permit activity shows plans are moving ahead for the 47-story skyscraper at Transbay Block 4 in SoMa, San Francisco. Representatives for the property owner, Hines, have recently filed an amendment request to increase the lot’s height limit from 450 feet to 513 feet. The building would create hundreds of below-market-rate units, apartments, condos, and townhomes overlooking the proposed Transbay Park.

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777 Airport Boulevard, rendering by Gensler

Meeting Scheduled Tomorrow for 777 Airport Boulevard, Burlingame

The Burlingame Planning Commission is scheduled to review the design for a 12-story office project at 777 Airport Boulevard, along the San Mateo County bayside waterfront. The project would continue the city’s expanding office presence in a prominent strip of land by 101. LPC West, the West Coast division of the international real estate firm, Lincoln Property Company, is responsible for the project.

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2900 Harbor Bay Parkway with the San Francisco skyline in the background, image via Google Satellite

Preliminary Plans for Life Sciences Building at 2900 Harbor Bay Parkway, Alameda

Recent permit activity shows plans are moving ahead to entitle a Life Sciences building at 2900 Harbor Bay Parkway in Alameda, Alameda County. The project would reshape a vacant 5.5-acre plot of waterfront land with a Research and Development building rather than the existing entitled plans for a Marriott Inn hotel. JLL is responsible for the property’s marketing.

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