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Groundbreaking Celebrated For Affordable Housing at 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park

By YIMBY Team

The City of Menlo Park recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new affordable housing project for veterans at 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park. The project proposal included the development of a new 100% permanent supportive housing community offering affordable housing options for veterans. MidPen Housing is the project developer. Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP is responsible for the designs. Guzman Construction Group is the general contractor.

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117 J Street, image via Google Street View

Hotel Conversion For 117 J Street, Old Sacramento

By Andrew Nelson

Recent plans have been filed to convert a reconstructed three-story brick building at 117 J Street in Old Sacramento to become a 14-key hotel. The existing structure is a reconstruction of the gold rush-era Sacramento Daily Union Building. Sacramento-based Bollinger Family 2012 LLC is listed as the current property owner.

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Transamerica Redevelopment aerial view, with Three Transamerica renderings on the leftside of the pyramid, rendering by Foster + Partners

SFYIMBY Year in Review: June 2024

By Andrew Nelson

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. June was a busy month. We documented the construction progress for three starchitect-led projects, including the topping out of an OMA-designed affordable housing complex across from Golden Gate Park, foundation progress for the Herzog & de Meuron-designed UCSF hospital, and an exclusive tour of the Foster + Partners renovations in the Transamerica Pyramid. On top of that, we reported on construction starting for the hotly contested low-income apartments on Irving Street, new details for the Chinatown tower, a 40-story tower across from City Hall, and a 36-acre research campus in Mountain View proposed by NASA and UC Berkeley.

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