New zoning permits have been filed for a slightly taller iteration of the California Theater Housing tower at 2115 Kittredge Street in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The updates now aim to reach 23 floors above street level, retaining the planned live performance theater and adjusting the residential capacity. Rhode Island-based Gilbane Development is responsible for the project.
Ensemble Investments has shared new details about two of its projects within the Tasman East master plan in Santa Clara. The team is preparing for the January opening of AVE Santa Clara, an eight-story residential mid-rise with over three hundred homes. Next door, the team has refurbished a Carl’s Junior building with a bar and grill surrounded by landscaping and food trucks.
The Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board is scheduled to have its final vote tomorrow evening on the 26-story residential tower proposed for 2128 Oxford Street in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The proposal, named the Hub at Berkeley, is one of three in the city’s pipeline poised to redefine the city skyline and would be the first to be approved. Chicago-based Core Spaces is responsible for the application, with planning and CEQA consultation from the Rhoades Planning Group.
Alongside the Tuesday ribbon cutting atop Verde, my recent site visit to Mission Rock gave me an opportunity to document the completion of phase one of the ambitious master plan along the San Francisco waterfront. Construction has replaced about half of the 28-acre surface parking lot with over five hundred homes, more than half a million square feet of commercial real estate, new internal streets, shops, and a public park across from Oracle Park. The project has been a joint venture with Tishman Speyer and the San Francisco Giants.
Tishman Speyer and the Giants gathered the project team and elected officials yesterday afternoon to celebrate the ribbon cutting of Verde, the 23-story residential addition in San Francisco’s Mission Rock master plan. The green tile-clad tower is the fourth and final structure in phase one of the multi-phase redevelopment of the Giant’s 28 acres of surface parking. The building offers 254 apartments alongside 59 units of affordable housing.
