The City of Oakland has published the Draft Environmental Impact Report on the California College of the Arts Oakland Campus redevelopment at 5200 Broadway. The announcement is an important milestone for the developer to construct over five hundred homes, open space, and preserved historic buildings across the four acres. Members of the public will have until late February to provide comment.
A new rendering has been published for an eight-story mixed-use infill at 2350 and 2360 Telegraph Avenue in Southside, Berkeley. The plans would replace the three-story Bear Basics clothing store and a single-story retail store with 48 apartments. Kick-Axe Properties is responsible for the application.
New permits have been submitted seeking the approval of bringing affordable housing at 51 9th Street in Downtown Oakland. The project proposal includes the construction of a seven-story building offering residential units at affordable rates, along with residential amenities, and a commercial kitchen. The project site is located adjacent to the Lake Merritt BART Station.
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 the year, SF YIMBY will look back on each month of the year and share the biggest stories we covered. The month saw plans for controversial apartment towers in the Sunset District and Menlo Park, each bolstered by new State Laws. Meanwhile, AIASF announced the winner of their competition to consider higher density in the Sunset.