Articles by Andrew Nelson

YouTube HQ Expansion aerial view, design by SHoP Architects

SHoP Architects-designed YouTube HQ Expansion Approved by San Bruno City Council

5:30 am on October 22, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The San Bruno City Council has approved plans for Google to expand YouTube’s headquarters with over two million square feet of office space, potential housing, shops, and a hotel as part of the Bayhill Specific Plan. The project will extend across five separate phases. Phase one starts with SHoP Architects-designed offices at 1300 Bayhill Drive and 1350 Grundy Lane, San Bruno, San Mateo County. The nearly half a million square foot phase. HLW is the architect of record.

1200 Van Ness Avenue afternoon view, rendering courtesy Woods Bagot

Planning Commission Approves 1200 Van Ness Avenue, Polk Gulch, San Francisco

5:00 am on October 22, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The San Francisco Planning Commission has greenlighted the 13-story mixed-use proposal for 1200 Van Ness Avenue in Polk Gulch. The proposal is expected to create a 114,000 square foot commercial podium with retail and over a hundred apartments. Van Ness / Post Center LLC, linked with the One Kearny Club and United Management Co, is responsible for the development.

Number 11: The Avery at 450 Folsom Street, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on October 21, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The eleventh tallest skyscraper in the Bay Area planned or built is Related Companies The Avery, a 618-foot tall residential tower at 450 Folsom Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The project is located on Block 8 of the Transbay development district and inside the highly redeveloped East Cut neighborhood. Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan Architecture is responsible for the tapered design.

Great Mall Parkway view, rendering via the City of Milpitas

Milpitas Considering Zoning for 7,000 Apartments in Transit-Oriented Plan

5:00 am on October 21, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The City of Milpitas is encouraging the public to comment on a new draft plan to rezone portions of the city, the Milpitas Metro Specific Plan. MMSP would establish five new districts around the city’s BART Station, which opened in June of 2020. Full build-out could produce roughly seven thousand apartments, two and a half million square feet of office space, light industrial space, retail, and hotels to be built by 2040.

Icon Echo Towers, with Miro viewed to the right of image, development by Urban Catalyst

Joint Meeting Scheduled for Icon-Echo Proposal in Downtown San Jose

5:30 am on October 20, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

A joint community and environmental public scoping meeting has been scheduled for tomorrow to review the plans for the Icon-Echo Towers, a mixed-use proposal for Downtown San Jose. The development, by Urban Catalyst, is expected to create two towers connected by a four-story podium, adding over half a million square feet of commercial space and over four hundred new apartments.

733 Treat Avenue, isometric aerial view of the street-facing facade, rendering by SIA Consulting

CUA Requested for 733 Treat Avenue, Mission District, San Francisco

4:30 am on October 20, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The development team has requested a conditional use authorization for a multi-family apartment development at 733 Treat Avenue in San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood. The proposal would replace a two-story commercial building with an unauthorized residence with seven new dwelling units. Vanguard Properties is responsible for the application as the property owner.

1951 Shattuck Avenue updated design with black window frames shorter retail fronts, rendering by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Updated Renderings Published Ahead of Meeting for 1951 Shattuck Avenue, Downtown Berkeley

5:30 am on October 19, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Updated renderings have been shared ahead of the final design review follow-up for 1951 Shattuck Avenue, a 12-story mixed-use proposal for Downtown Berkeley. The Alameda County project would create 163 new rental units to the city in desperate need of high-density housing. Grosvenor America is responsible for the development as the property owner.

2055 Chestnut Street, rendering by Jensen Architects

Meeting Requested for 2055 Chestnut Street, Marina District, San Francisco

4:30 am on October 19, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The Prado Group has requested a project review meeting for a three-story residential proposal at 2055 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Marina District. The development would replace a bank and surface parking with 49 rental apartments and new retail space for the busy high-end neighborhood. Jensen Architects is managing the design.

5M office tower at 415 Natoma Street and the former SF Chronicle building, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Facade Installation Nearly Finished for 5M Phase One, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on October 18, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

A year after SFYIMBY first covered San Francisco’s only new office tower to be delivered in 2021, construction work is wrapping up at 5M on 415 Natoma Street and 434 Minna Street in SoMa. Located by the 5th and Mission Street intersection, Brookfield is readying the new office tower and residential tower, expanding the high-rise plateau southwest of the Yerba Buena Gardens and Moscone Center. Brookfield and Hearst are jointly responsible for the billion-dollar project.

Orchard Springs Apartment, 2380 16th Avenue, image via Google Street View

Permits Filed for Orchard Springs Apartment, 2380 16th Avenue, Sacramento

4:30 am on October 18, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Preliminary permits have been filed for a multi-unit residential development at 2380 16th Avenue, just south of Sacramento’s Curtis Park neighborhood. The project, to be called the Orchard Springs Apartment, would rezone four vacant parcels to build sixteen units across two buildings.

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