SFYIMBY Year Review

For the last twelve days of 2025, SFYIMBY will continue our tradition of reflecting on the biggest stories we’ve covered each month across the region. February began with an increase in height for the California Theater tower in Downtown Berkeley. In San Francisco, preliminary permits were filed for the 22-story iteration of 2700 Sloat Boulevard, and formal permits were filed for a 23-story residential tower at 1965 Market Street. Further down the Peninsula, the Hillsdale Mall in San Mateo revealed a potential 1,400-unit redevelopment, and a 30-story senior housing tower in Redwood City was put on hold. Lastly, we toured the construction progress on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island.

For the last twelve days of 2025, SFYIMBY will continue our tradition of reflecting on the biggest stories we’ve covered each month across the region. The year started with planning progress for two potential towers in Downtown Berkeley, as well as approval for a 15-story affordable housing tower in San Francisco’s Chinatown. In the Richmond District, an interesting proposal surfaced to expand a Burger King into a five-story mixed-use building, and further details came out about SJSU’s updated masterplan for its downtown San Jose campus. Lastly, Oakland’s home-grown soccer team announced plans to redevelop Howard Terminal with a stadium, a refreshing departure from the fraught years-long battle about the site between the city and the Athletics Major League Baseball team.

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. For our final installment of this series, here are the most substantial stories covered throughout December, which include new renderings for a more timid tower on Sloat across from the San Francisco Zoo. We covered construction progress for several big affordable projects across the city, while new plans were revealed for several projects region-wide.

Continuing with the self-reflection, I’d like to break the fourth wall here with a New Year’s Eve note of appreciation…

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. Throughout November, there were various stories to cover, ranging from permits to meetings, and even the occasional construction update. The active topping out of an affordable housing structure on Haight Street contrasted with our Thanksgiving turkey of the year, the encumbered Oceanwide Center, an empty hole in the ground that was once poised to create the second-tallest building in the Bay Area.

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. In October, the biggest stories can be measured by floor count, with updates on three San Francisco projects that may rise 33, 65, and 72 floors respectively. Across the Bay, we revealed new renderings for a 23-story UC Berkeley dorm that is now the fourth tallest project in the city’s pipeline. Meanwhile, shifting scales from the tallest to among the smallest projects spotlit by our year review, we covered San Francisco’s retroactive legalization of the headline-grabbing illegal demolition of a Richard Neutra-designed house on Twin Peaks.