After nearly a year and a half of waiting, the City of Palo Alto has published the Draft Environmental Impact Report for a proposed four-story apartment infill at 660 University Avenue. With the Draft EIR published, the public will be able to provide comments to the city and the developer and proceed with the application. Mountain View-based Smith Development is the project sponsor.
Construction is moving forward on California Tower, as documented by a recent site visit by YIMBY for the planned 14-story medical facility rising in the UC Davis’s Sacramento campus. The project is expected to cost over $3.7 billion to add hundreds of new inpatient beds in a new seismically-updated facility. McCarthy Building Companies is the general contractor.
New renderings have been revealed for the three-story townhome-style development at 320 Sheridan Drive in Menlo Park, San Mateo County. The project will bring dozens of affordable homes to the former Flood School site owned by Ravenswood City School District. The District has partnered with Alliant Strategic Development to pursue construction.
Bay Area Rapid Transit has announced that construction is scheduled to start this summer on the Lake Merritt BART Station redevelopment in Downtown Oakland. Crews will start by replacing a surface parking lot with a seven-story affordable housing project and a landscaped paseo. Oakland Planning Commission is scheduled to review the updated phasing for the project tomorrow afternoon.
San Francisco has started accepting applications for the Shirley Chisholm Village at 1360 43rd Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The project will bring new affordable housing to the city’s westside, with priority for SFUSD teachers and employees. MidPen Housing is the developer.
