Bay Area Rapid Transit has announced that construction is scheduled to start this summer on the Lake Merritt BART Station redevelopment in Downtown Oakland. Crews will start by replacing a surface parking lot with a seven-story affordable housing project and a landscaped paseo. Oakland Planning Commission is scheduled to review the updated phasing for the project tomorrow afternoon.
San Francisco has started accepting applications for the Shirley Chisholm Village at 1360 43rd Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The project will bring new affordable housing to the city’s westside, with priority for SFUSD teachers and employees. MidPen Housing is the developer.
A recent site visit by YIMBY has captured the construction progress for Aggie Square, an innovation hub rising in the UC Davis Sacramento campus. The project will create a new dense hub on campus for life sciences, education, student housing, and parking. Wexford Science & Technology and GMH Capital Partners are joint developers.
Formal permits have been filed for a new residential development at 4220 Network Circle in Santa Clara. The application invokes the Builder’s Remedy to push forward construction on roughly half of the Oracle-owned office campus with hundreds of homes. Valley Oak Partners is the project developer.
Project permits have been filed to convert the Bank of Italy office tower into housing at 12 South 1st Street in Downtown San Jose, Santa Clara County. The plans would bring new life to the historic tower as the region deals with high office vacancy rates. RMW Architecture is the project applicant.
