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 […]
[caption id="attachment_16413" align="alignright" width="277"] 1989 winning masterplan designed by Tim Van Meter and Rick Williams[/caption] In April 1989, before VMWP was founded, Tim Van Meter and Rick Williams competed and won the design competition for the City College of San Francisco, redesigning the use of the […]
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 […]
Health focused design and trauma informed design in affordable housing
Veterans Village is an innovative housing model that provides safe, permanent affordable housing coupled with on-site medical care and social services to meet the complex needs of formerly homeless Veterans. Health-focused design principles and an enhanced […]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Posted by Trisha Thadani | Wednesday, August 12, 2020 The Balboa Reservoir — now a parking lot for students at City College of San Francisco — will be developed into 1,100 units of housing, 550 of them affordable.
Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
San Francisco’s […]
Source: San Francisco Examiner Community Contributor | Tuesday, July 21, 2020 | Opinion I am a resident of Ingleside and I live across the street from the proposed Balboa Reservoir development. The opinion piece published recently, ‘Board of Supervisors should say no to the Balboa Reservoir project,’ made a few […]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Posted by J.K. Dineen San Francisco Mayor London Breed has finalized an agreement with the developers of the Balboa Reservoir, a key milestone in winning approvals of a controversial plan that would add 1,100 homes to the 17-acre parking lot next to City College.
The […]
Crossing Pointe North, the affordable senior housing project in Thornton, CO celebrated its grand opening today. The Crossing Pointe North project is unique in its mission to promote a healthy lifestyle to its residents through its design and location adjacent to the Colorado & 104th St. […]
As design team members of the AvalonBay Communities and Bridge Housing partnership, we have been selected as the development team for the 17-acres of the Balboa Reservoir site. http://news.theregistrysf.com/san-francisco-selects-avalonbay-bridge-housing-development-proposal-balboa-reservoir-project/ […]
Public housing rebuild replaces longtime eyesore
BY AMANDA BISHOP, San Francisco Business Times Contributor
Source: San Francisco Business Times For decades, the giant concrete public housing structures on Valencia Street provided meeting space - for the wrong kinds of meetings. The buildings' interior corridors were the sites of drug […]
Balboa Reservoir has won a California Chapter APA California State Merit Award
Balboa Reservoir was Part of VMWP’s Inception
Balboa Reservoir has been awarded the 2021 APA Urban Design Award of Excellence
Project Feature: Veterans Village – How Affordable Housing Can Serve Those That Have Served Us
After decades of trying, SF supervisors finally approve 1,100 homes at Balboa Reservoir
The Balboa Reservoir project will be a huge benefit to the community
Crossing Pointe North Grand Opening
Development Team selected for Balboa Resevoir
Valencia Gardens wins San Francisco Business Times Award, Best Affordable Residential