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Treasure Island at full build-out, rendering by Steelblue

First New Structure Tops Out, New Renderings for Treasure Island Redevelopment, San Francisco

5:30 am on November 9, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Construction has topped out on the first new building in the Treasure Island redevelopment plan. The progress comes as San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed embarked on a boat ride from the Ferry Building to Treasure Island’s new passenger boat terminal last week, ahead of the January 2022 start of public ferry rides. Treasure Island’s roughly 8,000 unit redevelopment plan is led by Treasure Island Community Development (TICD), a partnership with Stockbridge Capital Group, Wilson Meany, and Lennar Corporation.

Palo Alto Public Safety Building aerial view, rendering by Ross Drulis Cusenbery Architecture

Construction Underway for Palo Alto Public Safety Building at 250 Sherman Avenue

5:30 am on November 6, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Construction work has been making progress for the new Palo Alto Public Safety Building at 250 Sherman Avenue in Palo Alto’s Evergreen Park neighborhood. Groundbreaking occurred in June of this year, replacing downtown surface parking with a three-story municipal office building for the Santa Clara County city. The building will function as a police station and administration office for the fire and police departments.

1265 Borregas Avenue exterior, rendering by Michael Green Architecture

Facade Rising On Google’s First Sunnyvale Mass Timber Office Building at 1265 Borregas Avenue

5:30 am on November 5, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Construction has topped out, with facade installation starting at 1265 Borregas Avenue in Sunnyvale’s Moffett Park area. The project will open as the first mass timber office building in Google’s expansive Sunnyvale office campus. Michael Green Architecture is responsible for the design.

One Rincon Hill with The Harrison in the background, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 9: One Rincon Hill at 425 1st Street, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on November 4, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The ninth tallest tower in the Bay Area planned or built is One Rincon Hill, one of the tallest fully residential buildings west of the Mississippi River. Finished in 2008, the 641-foot tower led the procession of construction that now defines Rincon Hill and the southern portion of San Francisco’s SoMa skyline overlooking the Bay Bridge. Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the project architect.

2233 Calle Del Mundo Tops Out, Demolition Complete For Two Buildings in Tasman East, Santa Clara

5:00 am on November 4, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

New aerial imagery shows construction has topped out for the first residential structure in the Tasman East Specific Plan, Santa Clara. Demolition has also finished on two more substantial sites. Tasman East is a multi-developer multi-structure mixed-use masterplan with plans to build as many as 4,500 new residential units with newly-laid streets, over a hundred thousand square feet of retail, a grocery store, school, open space, and affordable housing.

Related Santa Clara aerial perspective, rendering by Foster + Partners

SFYIMBY Site Visit: Golf Course Cleared for Related Santa Clara

5:30 am on November 3, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

New photographs show that portions of the now-closed Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Club have been demolished as part of the Related Santa Clara masterplan. Related Santa Clara is an $8 billion proposal to dramatically redevelop the former golf course with new offices, housing, shops, hotels, a 30-acre public park, and more. Related Companies and the City of Santa Clara as part of a joint venture, with Foster + Partners as the design architect.

Google Caribbean, design by Bjarke Ingels Group

Photo Update For BIG-designed Google Caribbean Project in Sunnyvale

5:30 am on November 1, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Excavation work is underway; that is the headlining story from a recent site visit to the 40.5-acre construction site of Google Caribbean in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County. Two Ziggurat-like office buildings will soon rise with design by Bjarke Ingels Group, an internationally renowned architecture firm founded in Denmark. Google has tapped Sares Regis as development manager.

Platform 16 aerial view, rendering by Kohn Pedersen Fox

Crews Spotted, Developer Considers Active Construction for Platform 16 near Diridon Station, San Jose

5:30 am on October 28, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Douglas Linde, president of Boston Properties, BXP, announced yesterday on a phone call that the firm is actively considering resuming the construction of Platform 16 in 2022, an office development at 441 West Julian Street, San Jose. The announcement came just as SFYIMBY spotted crew activity on the construction site that has been stalled since March of 2020. Platform 16 is a joint development with BXP, TMG Partners, and Valley Oak Partners. BXP maintains a 55% ownership of the project.

Number 11: The Avery at 450 Folsom Street, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on October 21, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The eleventh tallest skyscraper in the Bay Area planned or built is Related Companies The Avery, a 618-foot tall residential tower at 450 Folsom Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The project is located on Block 8 of the Transbay development district and inside the highly redeveloped East Cut neighborhood. Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan Architecture is responsible for the tapered design.

5M office tower at 415 Natoma Street and the former SF Chronicle building, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Facade Installation Nearly Finished for 5M Phase One, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on October 18, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

A year after SFYIMBY first covered San Francisco’s only new office tower to be delivered in 2021, construction work is wrapping up at 5M on 415 Natoma Street and 434 Minna Street in SoMa. Located by the 5th and Mission Street intersection, Brookfield is readying the new office tower and residential tower, expanding the high-rise plateau southwest of the Yerba Buena Gardens and Moscone Center. Brookfield and Hearst are jointly responsible for the billion-dollar project.

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