Articles by Andrew Nelson

Stonestown Mall redevelopment aerial view, rendering by Design Distill

SFYIMBY Year in Review: July 2024

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. During July, we reported on the final approval for the Stonestown redevelopment, several large projects in Silicon Valley invoking the Builder’s Remedy, and increased plans for an eight-story apartment complex in the Outer Sunset. However, the most commented-on story of the month and the year for us was a 15-story apartment tower rising over College Avenue in Rockridge, Oakland.

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156 California Avenue tower view, rendering by Studio Current

Draft EIR For 156 California Avenue, Palo Alto

The City of Palo Alto has announced that they will start preparing the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the builder’s remedy-assisted proposal at 156 California Avenue across from the Caltrain Station. The project is expecting to add nearly four hundred homes between two towers, the tallest rising 17 floors, across from the regional transit hub. REDCO Development is the development sponsor for the plans on behalf of the property owners, Mollie Stone’s Market.

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Transamerica Redevelopment aerial view, with Three Transamerica renderings on the leftside of the pyramid, rendering by Foster + Partners

SFYIMBY Year in Review: June 2024

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. June was a busy month. We documented the construction progress for three starchitect-led projects, including the topping out of an OMA-designed affordable housing complex across from Golden Gate Park, foundation progress for the Herzog & de Meuron-designed UCSF hospital, and an exclusive tour of the Foster + Partners renovations in the Transamerica Pyramid. On top of that, we reported on construction starting for the hotly contested low-income apartments on Irving Street, new details for the Chinatown tower, a 40-story tower across from City Hall, and a 36-acre research campus in Mountain View proposed by NASA and UC Berkeley.

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Anchor House from the Crescent Lawn road, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

SFYIMBY Year in Review: May 2024

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. Throughout May, YIMBY fielded a series of new renderings across the region,…

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1965 Market Street, rendering by RG Architecture

SFYIMBY Year in Review: April 2024

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. During April, we shared updates from Sacramento, construction progress on 555 Bryant Street, the China Basin Park ribbon cutting, and a 23-story residential tower proposed near the Castro.

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