Early last month the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the proposed redevelopment of Embarcadero Park along the Financial District’s waterfront. The decision comes after voters approved Proposition B last November, providing up to 41 million towards the redevelopment of multiple parks in the San Francisco Downtown neighborhoods.
The 2655 Shattuck Ave project took another step forward last week when The City of Berkeley filed for a Notice of Exemption for CEQA, in accordance with the standards of Infill Development Project exemptions. Studio KDA’s updated designs were released for the project last year, but site construction has been awaiting the completion of several approvals, this exemption included.
In a major pivot, developer Jay Paul Co. has decided to convert a large portion of the ongoing CityView Plaza project from office to residential. The site, at the northeast corner of Almaden Boulevard and Park Avenue in Downtown San Jose, will transform an existing four-office building campus into 320 units, rebooting construction on the project which paused last year due to poor market conditions.
Last week, Berkeley Moshav, the nation’s first Jewish urban cohousing complex broke ground at its site on San Pablo Ave. The four-story, mixed-use construction begins more than 10 years after the original proposal, making a historic debut for a new type of community-based housing. Urban Development + Partners has worked with Studio KDA architects and local Jewish community groups to realize this long-held dream.
On Thursday, April 3, the San Francisco Planning Commission will hold a regularly scheduled public hearing at City Hall. The meeting agenda will include four items related to the approval of the proposed 29-story hotel at 570 Market Street. The project, designed by Danny Forster & Architecture, has been in the works since early 2021 but has not yet begun construction.
