Articles by Andrew Nelson

Agrihood central amenities, rendering by Steinberg Hart

Permits Filed for Senior Housing at 76 North Winchester Boulevard, Santa Clara Agrihood

New building permits have been filed to construct a four-story senior housing building and community center at 70 and 76 North Winchester Boulevard, Santa Clara. These addresses are part of the multi-building mixed-use development dubbed Santa Clara Agrihood. The City entered a private-public partnership with Core Companies to construct 1.5 acres of agriculture connected to 361 homes, of which the City will sell 181 as affordable.

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Jasper at 45 Lansing Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 50: Jasper at 45 Lansing Street, SoMa, San Francisco

Coming in as the fiftieth tallest tower in the Bay Area built or planned is Jasper, a prominent building along the San Francisco skyline perched on Rincon Hill. The 430-foot tower at 45 Lansing Street, SoMa, was completed in 2016 by Miami-based Crescent Heights and then purchased in the summer of 2019 by Northwestern Mutual for $306 million. The development was made possible by San Francisco’s 2005 Rincon Hill Plan, a neighborhood-focused zoning program that helped pave the way for many of the towers on our list to offer housing in the Central Business District.

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The Land Park neighborhood, a single-family zoned neighborhood separated from Downtown Sacramento by a wide-laned freeway specifically mentioned by the city Mayor, image via Google Street View

Sacramento City Council Votes to Change Single-Family Zoning

The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of a draft plan to change the city’s exclusive zoning for single-unit households. Starting December of 2022, the city will allow the construction of single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes in areas that are currently zoned for single-unit homes only. The City Council voted 8-0 in approval, taking inspiration from the cities of Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon.

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1500 S Street corner view, design by HRGA Architecture

Demolition Permits Filed for 1500 S Street, Downtown Sacramento

Demolition permits have been filed for two structures at 1500 and 1508 S Street to make way for an eight-story residential building at 1500 S Street, Downtown Sacramento. The five-lot parcel contains an existing low slung commercial structure and a single-story house. They will be torn down for the construction of 137 new homes. Anthem Properties is responsible for the development since purchasing the property in 2019 for $5.1 million.

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