San Francisco

Oceanwide Center, design by Foster + Partners with Heller Manus Architects

Oceanwide Center Still Hole In Ground

In honor of New York YIMBY’s Turkey Week tradition of spotlighting stalled projects, we’d like to highlight the one big project that comes to mind for San Francisco. Oceanwide Center was meant to produce the second-tallest skyscraper in the city, with a unique geometric structure designed by Foster + Partners. Today, the property at First and Mission remains an unfinished hole in the ground, collecting dust and water.

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78 Haight Street seen from across Octavia Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Construction Tops Out for Affordable Housing at 78 Haight Street, San Francisco

Concrete has topped out for the seven-story affordable apartment complex at 78 Haight Street in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. Construction restarted in the spring of this year after work was stalled in 2022 after a neighboring property owner complained about construction compromising their structure’s foundation. Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation is the project developer.

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