Articles by Andrew Nelson

Millennium Tower from Main Street and Mission Street, with the 11-story addition visible infront of the 58-story tower, 77 Beale is on the right of the image, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 8: Millennium Tower in SoMa, San Francisco

The eighth tallest skyscraper in the Bay Area planned or built is the Millennium Tower, a 645-foot tall residential building at 301 Mission Street in SoMa, San Francisco. Developed by Millennium Partners, the project was built between 2005 and 2009 opened as the tallest residential tower west of Chicago. Since 2016, the building has garnered international news for both tilting and sinking.

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555 West Middlefield Road Block B at Moffett Corner updated design, rendering by BDE Architecture

Parking-to-Housing Conversion Proposed for 555 West Middlefield Road, Mountain View

AvalonBay Communities is planning to replace the surface parking of an existing residential community with new housing in Mountain View, Santa Clara County. The proposal would retain all 402 residences at 555 West Middlefield Road while creating 323 new homes and an amenity clubhouse on top of over seven acres of surface parking. The project has been endorsed by the Housing Action Coalition.

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Treasure Island at full build-out, rendering by Steelblue

First New Structure Tops Out, New Renderings for Treasure Island Redevelopment, San Francisco

Construction has topped out on the first new building in the Treasure Island redevelopment plan. The progress comes as San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed embarked on a boat ride from the Ferry Building to Treasure Island’s new passenger boat terminal last week, ahead of the January 2022 start of public ferry rides. Treasure Island’s roughly 8,000 unit redevelopment plan is led by Treasure Island Community Development (TICD), a partnership with Stockbridge Capital Group, Wilson Meany, and Lennar Corporation.

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