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Balboa Reservoir Master Plan wins ASLA Northern California 2022 design award

Balboa Reservoir Master Plan ASLA Northern California Honor Award – GLS Landscape | Architecture, Van Meter Williams Pollack, and Pyatok ANALYSIS & PLANNING CATEGORY   Project Statement: This project creates an urban, landscape-driven master plan at the 17-acre Balboa Reservoir site. Located adjacent to the San Francisco City […]

Balboa Reservoir has won a California Chapter APA California State Merit Award

Balboa Reservoir Design Standards and Guidelines has been selected for an Award of Merit for the 2021 Urban Design Award. The Virtual Awards Ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, September 15, 2021 as part of the 2021 APA California Virtual Conference: Changing Plans; Changing Planning. Actual […]

VMWP Wins Two PCBC Gold Nugget GRAND Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Van Meter Williams Pollack was awarded two Grand Awards at the virtual 2021 Pacific Coast Builders Conference Gold Nugget Awards Ceremony! Judges for the 2021 Gold Nugget Awards have named Van Meter Williams Pollack as a two-time Grand Award winner […]

VMWP is 2021 Gold Nugget Merit Award winner, Best Affordable Senior Housing Community

Judges for the 2021 Gold Nugget Awards have named Van Meter Williams Pollack as an Award of Merit winner in its annual competition, which honors architectural design and planning excellence and draws entries from throughout the United States and internationally. VMWP earned its Merit honors […]

Balboa Reservoir has been awarded the 2021 APA Urban Design Award of Excellence

Balboa Reservoir Design Standards and Guidelines has been awarded the APA Northern California Chapter Urban Design Award of Excellence. It has been an honor to team with PYATOK architecture + urban design and GLS Landscape | Architecture helping to deliver 1,100 homes to a City-owned parking […]

Veterans Village is Affordable Housing Finance Winner

Colma Veterans Village has been announced as a Winner in the Special-Needs Category of Affordable Housing Finance's 2020 Readers' Choice Awards for its role in helping meet the housing and health needs of vulnerable veterans in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 66 unit affordable veterans […]

Affordable Housing Community in Thornton Awarded Tax Credits

Source: milehighcre.com Wednesday, December 2, 2020 Adams County housing authority Maiker Housing Partners has received Federal and State Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) for the construction of Crossing Pointe South, located at 4220 E. 104th Ave in Thornton. The Crossing Pointe multi-generational community already […]

1101 Connecticut Affordable Housing Exterior 2020 MFE Award Winner, VMWP Affordable Housing: 1101 Connecticut

San Francisco Development Offers More Than Housing 2020 MFE Award Winner, Affordable Housing, Merit: 1101 Connecticut Source: Multifamily Executive By Donna Kimura | Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1101 Connecticut is more than the 72 affordable homes it provides low-income residents in San Francisco. While that alone is impressive, it […]

Eagle Park Structures Award Winner Featured in Business Journal

Source: BizJournals.com By Becky Bergman | Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Community Impact Project Eagle Park Apartments 1701 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View   An underutilized parcel with a dilapidated industrial building on a site located between Shoreline and El Monte has been transformed into a desirable affordable rental apartment community […]

Eagle Park Named as a 2020 Silicon Valley Structures Award Winner

Retail, residential, commercial and community projects to be honored for 2020 Structures Awards Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal Posted by Lynn Peithman Stock | August 18, 2020 This year’s Structures Award honorees include a billion-dollar retail expansion, a new transit center and a new facility for adoptable animals. We will recognize […]

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