Berkeley‘s Design Review Committee is scheduled to review plans this Thursday for the potential tallest structure to rise in the city. The project is expected to bring nearly six hundred units by merging four lots, including the corner McDonald’s, at 1950-1998 Shattuck Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. NX Ventures and Rhoades Planning Group are jointly responsible for the application.
Permits have been filed for a backyard townhouse development at 3261 Hollis Street in Clawson, West Oakland. The small-lot infill would replace a rear-lot garage with six new apartments. Colm Higgins and Pier Iberti et al. are listed as the property owners.
Preliminary permits have been submitted alongside new renderings for a five-story housing project at 3900 Geary Boulevard in the Inner Richmond, San Francisco. The plans will expand upon an existing two-story commercial corner lot, retaining the Burger King joint as an anchor tenant. Sunny Ghai, a prolific franchisee of Burger King and Taco Bells across three states, is the property owner.
New renderings have been published alongside zoning permits for a 23-story tower at 2029 University Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. Project developer Laconia Development has submitted two concurrent plans for residential or student housing within the identically-sized high rise. Either way, the team is pursuing one of the tallest projects in the city’s pipeline.
Once again, plans are shifting dramatically for the potential redevelopment of the Sloat Garden Center in San Francisco’s Sunset District. After over a year of seeking approval for a 50-story tower at 2700 Sloat Boulevard, the previous developer withdrew plans in May of this year. The new joint venture has submitted plans to create over four hundred apartments in a 22-story tower.
