Just over a year after the official groundbreaking ceremony, crews have topped out the five-story affordable educator housing development at 1360 43rd Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The Shirley Chisholm Village has replaced a former school and outdoor yard with the low-rise apartment infill designed by BAR Architects with G7A. MidPen Housing is the project developer, and Cahill is the general contractor.
The California Transportation Commission has approved the CEQA environmental review of the 2.2-mile extension of The Portal, San Francisco’s Downtown Rail Extension. The Portal will connect the city’s existing 4th Street Train Station to the Salesforce Transit Center. Once complete, the connection will accommodate Caltrain and future high-speed rail.
New renderings have been published for a proposed residential redevelopment of the John Delucchi Sheet Metal building at 1526 Powell Street in San Francisco. The building is located on the border of Russian Hill and North Beach. The plan by JS Sullivan Development would bring 20 new residences for ownership, including some affordable units, to the mostly stagnant neighborhood while retaining the structure’s distinctive facade.
Preliminary plans have been filed for a larger apartment complex at 650 Divisadero Street by Alamo Square in San Francisco. The application will create a nine-story apartment complex with nearly a hundred affordable units two blocks from the Panhandle. Jonathan Rose Companies is the project developer.
Preliminary plans have been filed for over two hundred affordable senior homes at 2675 Folsom Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. The application comes after plans for a 117-unit apartment complex were approved in 2016 but never built.
