For the last twelve days of the year 2023, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and share the biggest stories we covered. January started with new plans revealed by Solbach for a 46-story tower, construction financing for Samuel Merritt University’s expansion in Downtown Oakland, and YIMBY sharing aerial views of construction for the mega-development on Treasure Island.
Concrete has passed the halfway point for the new affordable housing complex rising at 600 7th Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The project, named 7th and Brannan, is among the biggest active sites in the city, with over 221 units to be opened once complete. Mercy Housing is the project developer.
New details have been released for one of the largest projects in the region, a several-thousand-unit mixed-housing expansion across the former Concord Naval Weapons Station in Concord, the largest city in Contra Costa County. Details must be released, but the project is expected to create over ten thousand dwelling units over the 2,350-acre property.
The Final Environmental Impact Report has been published for North Bayshore, a mixed-use development proposed by Google in Mountain View, Santa Clara County. The publication brings Google closer to entitlement for the 153-acre masterplan with thousands of homes, public open space, and 1.8 million square feet of new office space. Lendlease is working with the tech giant as the project developer.
For the last twelve days of the year, SF YIMBY will look back on each month to reflect on the biggest stories we covered. In July, San Francisco saw the opening of the $118 million Presidio Tunnel Tops park, replacing surface parking and covering up an overpass with 14 acres of landscaped open space. Meanwhile, in the Civic Center and on Treasure Island, crane installation signaled the start of work on two new towers that will contribute to the city’s slow-growing skyline. In San Jose, crews finished the facade installation for the Adobe North Tower.