NX Ventures has submitted plans for a new 14-story infill at 2109 Milvia Street in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The proposal would replace a surface parking lot with 105 new homes one block from the Berkeley BART Station. Trachtenberg Architects is responsible for the design.
New plans have been filed for an eight-story apartment tower at the triangular corner lot at 2201 Market Street in the Castro, San Francisco. The new plans represent an increase from plans approved in 2016 with 14 market-rate homes. Now, the project will create 20 units with three affordable apartments. Polaris Pacific is listed as the property owner.
The Menlo Park Planning Commission has approved four architectural plans for Meta’s Willow Village in San Mateo County. The city reviewed Safdie Architect’s glass-domed meeting and collaboration space, the town square, the office campus, and two apartment buildings. Facebook’s parent company is working with Signature Development Group in a joint venture called the Peninsula Innovation Partners.
Renderings have been published for the seven-story mixed-use infill at 599 Divisadero Street in San Francisco. The tiny-lot infill will bring 17 homes to the thoroughfare dividing the Alamo Square neighborhood from North of the Panhandle. De Quesada Architects is overseeing the application and design.
Permits are approved, and construction was expected to start two years ago, but now the site remains undisturbed while the project developer has received an extension for two loans totaling $80 million. Both JPMorgan Chase Bank and United Overseas Bank have pushed the deadline for Hines through October for two $40 million loans pertaining to the 61-story proposal at 550 Howard Street in SoMa, San Francisco. If built today, the mixed-use tower could become the fourth tallest tower in the city.
