Portola Valley has approved plans by Stanford University for Portola Terraces, a new housing project at 3530 Alpine Road in the unincorporated town of San Mateo County. The small proposal would bring 39 units south of the campus. Stanford University‘s Real Estate Department is responsible for the application.
For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. Throughout November, there were various stories to cover, ranging from permits to meetings, and even the occasional construction update. The active topping out of an affordable housing structure on Haight Street contrasted with our Thanksgiving turkey of the year, the encumbered Oceanwide Center, an empty hole in the ground that was once poised to create the second-tallest building in the Bay Area.
For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. The throughline of August this year has been new high-rises or increasing…
For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. During July, we reported on the final approval for the Stonestown redevelopment, several large projects in Silicon Valley invoking the Builder’s Remedy, and increased plans for an eight-story apartment complex in the Outer Sunset. However, the most commented-on story of the month and the year for us was a 15-story apartment tower rising over College Avenue in Rockridge, Oakland.
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.