Shotwell Slow Street, image via SFMTA

SFMTA Proposed Permanent Slow Streets Program for San Francisco

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has filed a project profile application with plans to make the Slow Streets Program permanent. Nearly thirty slow-street corridors have been opened since the program started in April last year. A dozen and a half corridors are under consideration to be permanent, with three permanent slow streets in the design phase. The proposal is now under review by the San Francisco Planning Department.

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Insights Coffee Roasters

Permits Filed For New Apartments At 1901 8th Street, Sacramento

Permits have been filed seeking the approval of new apartments at 1901 8th Street in Sacramento. The project proposal includes the construction of residences above Insight Coffee Roasters near downtown Sacramento. Williams & Paddon Architects and Planners is managing the design concepts and the construction. Urban Elements LLC is the developer. Fulcrum Redding LLC is the property owner that purchased the property in 2015 for $3.4 million.

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1028 Market Street main view, rendering of design by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Crane Dismantling Starts for 1028 Market Street, Tenderloin, San Francisco

A new apartment building overlooking Market Street is nearing the opening point. Crews have begun dismantling the crane for 1028 Market Street in the southeast corner of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The project will produce affordable and market-rate housing blocks away from two BART Stations. The Olympic Residential Group and Tidewater Capital are responsible for the development.

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