SFYIMBY Year Review

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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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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4200 Geary Boulevard, rendering courtesy TNDC

SFYIMBY Year in Review: March 2024

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. In March, preliminary plans surfaced for several big projects, new details emerged for the High Speed Rail’s Central Valley Stations, and construction topped out for affordable housing in the Richmond District. We interviewed with the developer behind the proposed 72-story residential skyscraper in SoMa, and plans increased for the ill-fated tower next to Telegraph Hill, backed by a politically active billionaire.

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