San Francisco

758-772 Pacific Avenue, image by Google Satellite

15-Story Affordable Housing Proposed in Chinatown, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 31, 2024 By Andrew Nelson

Updated plans have surfaced for a 15-story affordable housing tower to rise at 758 and 772 Pacific Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The city purchased the property in 2017 after a campaign by the late Rose Pak, an influential political activist for the neighborhood. While initial plans considered building between 50 and 80 units on the lot, this recent application has proposed constructing 175 apartments and a new banquet hall.

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555 Howard Street aerial view, rendering by Steelblue

Approval Extension Requested for Renzo Piano-designed Tower in San Francisco

5:30 am on January 30, 2024 By Andrew Nelson

While San Francisco’s hotel occupancy rates recover, one developer has filed plans to extend the approval period of the 35-story hotel right across from the Transbay Transit Center. The 2015-filed project would replace three low-slung commercial buildings at 555 Howard Street in SoMa with four hundred hotel rooms and a rooftop POPOS. The application is a joint venture between Pacific Eagle and SKS Partners.

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955 Sansome Street pedestrian view along Vallejo Street, rendering by Handel Architects

Tower Grows In Face of Opposition on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 24, 2024 By Andrew Nelson

Some residents have never been happy with plans for 955 Sansome Street, starting with the preliminary seven-story application in 2021 for the corner lot by Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Since then, three iterations have gone through the planning department, steadily growing to ten floors, then sixteen, and now 24 floors tall. The project application states that the proposal “aspires to restore and revitalize an underutilized site while providing much needed higher density housing for the city.”

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