Articles by Andrew Nelson

Platform 16 aerial view, rendering by Kohn Pedersen Fox

Crews Spotted, Developer Considers Active Construction for Platform 16 near Diridon Station, San Jose

Douglas Linde, president of Boston Properties, BXP, announced yesterday on a phone call that the firm is actively considering resuming the construction of Platform 16 in 2022, an office development at 441 West Julian Street, San Jose. The announcement came just as SFYIMBY spotted crew activity on the construction site that has been stalled since March of 2020. Platform 16 is a joint development with BXP, TMG Partners, and Valley Oak Partners. BXP maintains a 55% ownership of the project.

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469 Stevenson Street facade elevation, drawing by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Supervisors to Consider Appeal for 469 Stevenson Street, SoMa, San Francisco

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider an appeal of 469 Stevenson Street, a proposed 27-story mixed-use addition to SoMa. Filed by the Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium, the appeal claims the project’s environmental review was inadequate and unsafe. Both the project developer and city staff rebuke each claim as inaccurate and an attempt to stall the high-rise residential addition to the neighborhood.

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