For the last twelve days of the year, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and share the biggest stories we covered. The month of May started slowly, with illustrations for the High-Speed Rail project, but ended with substantial construction activity documented across the Bay Area, including a rising Life Sciences campus by the San Bruno BART Station. The builder’s remedy was floated for a 350-unit apartment complex in Palo Alto, and YIMBY revealed plans for new housing at the base of Sutro Tower.

For the last twelve days of this year, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and share the biggest stories we covered. April was the most active month yet, including our first look at the proposed Sunset Tower, which shocked the region. Less shocking but still of great interest, SHVO revealed new illustrations for a Foster-designed Three Transamerica, construction was spotted at YouTube’s new SHoP-designed HQ, and Republic opened the region’s largest new Transit-Oriented Development in Millbrae. Plans for 469 Stevenson Street got a second life with a new application, plans that received a shot of reality this Thursday, more on that below. Lastly, this was the month when Oakland A’s president, Dave Kaval, announced that the team had purchased land in Las Vegas and would leave California, ending a drawn-out saga of negotiations with the city to build Howard Terminal.

For the last twelve days of the year, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and share the biggest stories we covered. March was the month of construction updates across the East Bay, San Francisco, and San Mateo County. Crews started on the new CCA campus in San Francisco, a new Life Sciences complex started to rise across from the Millbrae Station, and several urban infills were spotted rising in Berkeley. In Downtown Oakland, YIMBY visited the peak of Behring Co’s 39-story apartment tower.