Preliminary plans have been submitted for an affordable residential project at 520 West Alma Avenue in Willow Glen, San Jose. Initial permits will add 91 apartments to the currently vacant parcel near a Caltrain stop. RCD Housing is the project sponsor.
The preliminary application has been filed for an eight-story apartment complex at 585 17th Street in Downtown Oakland. The plans will create nearly a hundred homes at the corner of 17th and Jefferson Street, two blocks away from Oakland City Hall. San Francisco-based DM Development is the developer.
Alameda County has started accepting applications for affordable rental units in the Maudelle Miller Shirek Community Building in South Berkeley. The six-story project is offering 86 units across from the Ashby BART Station and near Berkeley Bowl. Prospective residents will have until February 12th to apply for the lottery drawing.
For the last twelve days of 2023, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. This December, YIMBY documented construction for the 16-story apartment complex in SoMa, affordable housing in Haight-Ashbury, and labs in Burlingame. Berkeley saw preliminary permits for over a thousand units across over a dozen proposals using SB330, and modified plans were shared by the developer of Cupertino’s multi-billion dollar project, The Rise. Finally, SHVO received a greenlight for the proposed adaptive reuse of Three Transamerica, working with Foster + Partners to make a rare invest in the city’s future of commercial office space this year.
For the last twelve days of 2023, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. November saw the Builder’s Remedy used for a potential tower in Palo Alto and reduced project sizes in San Jose. Sunnyvale approved more housing next to Lawrence Station, and Berkeley upzoned the busy Southside neighborhood. YIMBY visited Sacramento to see the construction of a rising courthouse tower, and a new developer catapulted themselves into the spotlight with a potential 844-foot tall residential tower in San Francisco.