The UC investment arm acted through affiliates to purchase a large hotel in Downtown Berkeley. The purchase appears to be an financial investment by the University of California and not a specific expansion of the UC Berkeley Campus. As such, there are no immediate plans for conversation of the building’s use or layout.
Earlier this week, the Summer Oaks Development at 175 West Verano Avenue in Sonoma marked a major milestone in the building’s construction. The project’s partners, including representatives from Mid-Pen Housing, gathered to celebrate the initial framing of the affordable multi-unit building.
Revised plans have been filed for a shorter 21-story senior housing tower at 910 Marshall Street and 1800 Broadway in the heart of Redwood City, San Mateo County. The development is still poised to redefine the county seat’s skyline, though sizably reduced from the previous 345-foot-tall iteration withdrawn earlier this year. R&M Properties is the project developer.
The plans for a project at 952-960 Howard Street have been revised several times from the original proposal. The newest project revision would make the building larger than the first design, but smaller than some of the other earlier concepts. oWow is listed as both developer and architect for the project.
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity has announced plans to transform the former Birkenstock campus in Novato into a museum for art and design. The Marin County campus spans 88.5 acres of public open space and an extremely distinctive saw-tooth roofline factory warehouse in view of Highway 101. International architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is responsible for the design.