The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has voted to approve plans for 1178 Sonora Court, Sunnyvale, located in the Lawrence Station Area Plan. The seven-story proposal will create 176 units of affordable housing in an office-rich area of Santa Clara County with new housing coming online. MidPen Housing is the developer.
Assemblymember Marc Berman has secured $8 million from the state for 965 Weeks Street, a multi-structure affordable housing development in East Palo Alto, San Mateo County. The project would create 136 units on undeveloped city-owned land. MidPen Housing and EPACANDO are joint developers.
The Planning Commission has issued new building permits for 389 Ninth Avenue in Oakland’s waterfront development, Brooklyn Basin. The six-story building, also called Parcel A2, or Foon Lok East, will contribute 124 affordable housing units to the 3,700-unit masterplan. MidPen Housing Corporation is the building developer, with Signature Development Group responsible for the master plan.
Construction is expected to start this summer on the Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing at 1360 43rd Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The property has been used as a public park over the last six years while the city reviewed the housing project. Now with approval set and construction to start in a few months, an event has been organized to celebrate the impending closure of Parkland at 43rd Avenue tomorrow, May 7th.
A new site visit for SFYIMBY shows four complete apartments and two more rising at Brooklyn Basin, Oakland. The waterfront mixed-use development is expected to create 3,700 new homes across twelve buildings alongside new shops, a grocery store, and 30 acres of landscaped open space. Oakland-based Signature Development Group is the overall project developer.
