IKEA is opening its new store today in San Francisco. The famous Swedish store is launching its third Bay Area location, two decades after its East Palo Alto location, with a new approach for urban shoppers. The city model integrates delivery services for larger products, a deli, and future plans for the Hej!Workshop.
Preliminary plans have been filed for a new 12-story residential infill at 2530 Bancroft Way in Southside, Berkeley. The project will create over a hundred homes and retail directly across from the UC Berkeley campus. The Miottel Corporation, a trust connected to Berkeley-based W. John Miottel, is listed as the current property owner.
A new supportive housing residential project has been approved for construction at 9809 MacArthur Boulevard in Castlemont in Oakland. The project proposal includes the construction of a six-story residential building offering supportive housing units on a vacant property lot. Velma Mae Campbell Land Holdings LLC is the property owner. Banta Design is the architect for the project.
Acclaim Companies has filed an alternative application for what is now a builder’s remedy-assisted plan to develop 3150 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County. The seven-story project, initially filed this June, aims to build 380 new homes on the 2.55-acre site. Communications with the city’s planning department show the developer is filing the second application in response to the department’s signal of disapproval for the increased housing.
Construction is underway for Aspen Wood, an entirely affordable senior housing project on the southern border of San Ramon, Contra Costa County. The project will create 123 new homes at 9000 Alcosta Boulevard, close to the Walmart-anchored Country Club Village shopping center. Standard Communities and Housing On Merit are jointly responsible for the development.
