A new variance request was submitted by Mahya Salehi Studio for the proposed remodel of the building at 42-50 Allen Street in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. The proposal, which would involve the conversion of the lower-story garages into two ADU units, coincides with construction to seismically retrofit the building.
Last week the Sacramento Planning and Design Commission approved JEN Partners’s application to rezone 4.87 acres of land from Office/Agriculture to single or duplex housing. The proposed project, ParkBridge East, will subdivide the area into 41 residential lots. Each lot will remain a single-unit housing, most likely to be developed as unattached tract housing.
The 2655 Shattuck Ave project took another step forward last week when The City of Berkeley filed for a Notice of Exemption for CEQA, in accordance with the standards of Infill Development Project exemptions. Studio KDA’s updated designs were released for the project last year, but site construction has been awaiting the completion of several approvals, this exemption included.
Despite objections from contraction unions, an application to introduce a new residential project continues to progress for a site located at 3000 Shattuck Avenue in South Berkeley, Alameda County. The project proposal includes the construction of a new 10-story development offering space for residential and commercial uses. The project site currently houses Berkeley Gas and Smog gas station. NX Ventures is the project applicant and property owner. Trachtenberg Architects is responsible for the designs. InsideOut is responsible for landscape architecture.
In a major pivot, developer Jay Paul Co. has decided to convert a large portion of the ongoing CityView Plaza project from office to residential. The site, at the northeast corner of Almaden Boulevard and Park Avenue in Downtown San Jose, will transform an existing four-office building campus into 320 units, rebooting construction on the project which paused last year due to poor market conditions.
