Plans have been approved for the residential infill at 921 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco, clearing the path for construction to start by next summer or early fall. The 14-story building will soon rise from a 0.1-acre site to build fifty new homes. David Baker Architects is responsible for the design.
A new affordable residential project has been proposed at 555 Keyes Street in San Jose. The project proposal includes the development of a six-story building offering 100 percent affordable residential units over a one-story basement. Charities Housing is the project developer. David Baker Architects is responsible for the design concepts.
New permits have been filed for a five-story affordable housing project at 3001 El Camino Real in Ventura, Palo Alto. The development will replace a single-story commercial structure and surface parking along the Peninsula’s commercial artery, close to the California Avenue Caltrain station, with 129 new homes. Charities Housing is the project owner, operating through El Camino PA LP.
S. Hekemian Group has proposed to replace a surface parking lot with nearly two hundred homes at 600 McAllister Street, at the edge of Civic Center, San Francisco. The proposal, in the works since 2019, has now been approved for a streamlined environmental review process, per section 15183 of the California Environmental Quality Act, i.e., CEQA.
A pre-application permit has been filed for residential plans at 430 Broadway, in Oakland, located by Jack London Square. Additional reporting states the developers are planning yet more housing at the vacant structure on 401 Broadway, with roughly 600 new homes in the works. The filing is by Related and the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation.
