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City Requests $47 Million To Pay Construction Loan for Hotel Diva Conversion

4:30 am on September 12, 2023 By YIMBY Team

The City’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Episcopal Community Services have submitted a request to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for a $47.38 million permanent loan related to the conversion of Hotel Diva at 440 Geary Street into permanent supportive housing. The financing will pay off the construction loan from the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF). Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) with co-applicant Episcopal Community Services (ECS) as owner and service provider.

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617 Laguna Street

City Proposes Acquisition of Former Village at Hayes Valley for Department of Public Health

4:30 am on August 8, 2023 By YIMBY Team

New plans have been submitted for the City of San Francisco to acquire three structures at 601, 617, and 624 Laguna Street in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. The project proposal includes the construction of a new Dual Diagnosis care facility on the top floors and the ground level conversion into transitional housing for at-risk youths. Pacific SFO LLC is the property owner.

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655 4th Street, illustration by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

SFYIMBY Year in Review: November 2022

5:30 am on December 30, 2022 By Andrew Nelson

For the last twelve days of the year, SF YIMBY will look back on each month to reflect on the biggest stories we covered. This month saw new renderings for various major projects across San Francisco and groundbreaking for new affordable housing and a life sciences project. YIMBY also toured a new dense energy-efficient apartment infill at 361 Turk Street.

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Tidal House aerial view, rendering by David Baker Architects edited by YIMBY for clarity

SFYIMBY Year in Review: July 2022

5:30 am on December 26, 2022 By Andrew Nelson

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.

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