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Vivalon Healthy Aging Campus & Senior Housing

DESCRIPTION This new mixed-use senior center, located on the corner of Third and Brooks Street, provides affordable housing to low-, very low-income, and formerly homeless seniors. The building integrates high-quality amenities including a community room and kitchen, residential courtyard for gatherings and gardening, a multipurpose room […]

Providence House

description The Providence House project combines the replacement of decaying fiber lap siding with updates to common areas and a new water efficient landscape for this supportive housing community adjacent to downtown Oakland. The main facade faces south, and the new envelope is designed to moderate […]

Crossing Pointe North

DESCRIPTION Crossing Pointe North is an affordable senior and family housing community located adjacent to the Colorado & 104th St. light rail station in Thornton, Colorado. Though the affordable housing project is within walking distance of community-serving retail, the site is bound by permanent open space […]

Del Corazon

DESCRIPTION Del Corazón is located along Morrison Road, a revitalizing area with a strong Latino influence that was used as the main driver for the project. Focusing on the importance of family structure and community building, Del Corazón addresses the needs of the residential community.  The developments […]

Richardson Hall

DESCRIPTION The 55 Laguna Development includes the adaptive re-use and renovation of the historic Richardson Hall built in 1924 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style as a teacher’s school. This project provides 40 new units of LGBTQ friendly senior housing and­ residential amenities in the upper […]

Pacific School of Religion

DESCRIPTION Beginning in spring of 2015, VMWP and the PSR Consolidation Committee have been meeting regularly to establish the programatic needs of the school, and the best way to physically integrate their academic and support functions under one roof. VMWP has been instrumental in collecting stakeholder […]

Grand Oaks Apartments

DESCRIPTION Grand Oak Apartments is a 43-unit complex of affordable multi-family housing that includes a courtyard play area, community multipurpose room, and two stories of underground structured parking. Two-story townhouses line Oak Avenue and conceal the parking garage completely from the single-family neighborhood across the street. […]

Eastmont Court

DESCRIPTION Eastmont Court is a 19-unit infill special needs housing development in East Oakland. By adding prominence to the corner site, the building repairs a gap in the existing neighborhood fabric and forms a protected courtyard for the outdoor enjoyment of the residents. The building and […]

Rebuild Potrero, 1101 Connecticut

DESCRIPTION 1101 Connecticut, also named Block X, is the first building in the redevelopment of the 38 acre Potrero Public Housing site in San Francisco. It is the result of a multi-year effort working with the residents and surrounding community to shape the redevelopment master plan […]

Veterans Village

DESCRIPTION The Veterans Village is a 66 unit affordable housing community in Colma, California. Situated between Cypress Lawn and Holy Cross cemeteries along Mission Road, the project is a new three story residential building and the preservation of the historic pump building for use by residents. […]

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