Please join us in congratulating our promoted colleagues at Van Meter Williams Pollack. Due to their leadership and dedication to VMWP’s mission, we have steadily grown during this challenging year. We are grateful for each of these accomplished co-workers for their resiliency, passion, and expertise. […]
VMWP plans, designs and builds a wide variety of affordable housing from high-density urban communities to small-lot single-family housing. Our work has received numerous design awards in national and local design competitions. As cost and quality of life are primary concerns in our housing, we […]
At its core VMWP believes in the “learn one, learn all” philosophy. Our very own Elitsa Shepherd and Elaine Uang led a three-part lunch and learn called the “Residential Units Trilogy” that covered just about everything we needed to know about designing residential units. The […]
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 […]
Source: Denverite, Desiree Mathurin “I like to say we’re an example of a community who said they were tired of waiting to be rescued, so we’ll rescue ourselves. We’re passionate about Montbello, and it’s important for folks to know we built this.” The neighborhood group behind the […]
[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 […]
Denver passes $15 million project to turn former East Colfax strip club into affordable housing
Source: The Denver Gazette
Date: March 1, 2021 The Denver City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday night allocating $15 million for the development of a new affordable housing project in the East […]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- February 3, 2021
VMWP DENVER’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING GRAND SLAM
Van Meter Williams Pollack’s funded projects represent a lion's share
of the affordable housing units awarded by CHFA in 2020.
Denver, Colorado – Van Meter Williams Pollack has good news for our non-profit clients after a […]
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 […]
Moving on up: 2022 VMWP promotions
VMWP Denver’s current affordable housing work
Staff Feature: Elitsa Shepherd and Elaine Uang present “Residential Units Trilogy”
Balboa Reservoir has won a California Chapter APA California State Merit Award
Montbello FreshLo, the long-awaited grocery store/affordable housing project, just took a big leap toward funding
Balboa Reservoir was Part of VMWP’s Inception
Balboa Reservoir has been awarded the 2021 APA Urban Design Award of Excellence
Denver Passes 8315 E. Colfax Ave. Making Way for Affordable Housing
After decades of trying, SF supervisors finally approve 1,100 homes at Balboa Reservoir