Breed asks University of California to consider opening downtown San Francisco campus
Source: SFGATE By Alec Regimbal [caption id="attachment_11000" align="alignright" width="300"] San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks onstage during the 2022 Essence Festival of Culture at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 2, 2022, in New Orleans. […]
Author: Robert Davis, Bisnow Denver Source: Bisnow More than 10 years after the Westminster Mall’s closure, the city’s efforts to take the unusual step of acting as developer on the property’s reimagining is bearing fruit. With new retail openings, a hotel and hundreds of residences, the project began […]
Source: San Francisco Business Times By Laura Waxmann – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times A yearslong effort to transform a 17.6-acre, publicly owned swath of land adjacent to City College of San Francisco into 1,100 new homes has faced many twists and turns, and more than two years after […]
Balboa Reservoir Master Plan ASLA Northern California Honor Award – GLS Landscape | Architecture, Van Meter Williams Pollack, and Pyatok
ANALYSIS & PLANNING CATEGORY Project Statement: Balboa Reservoir project creates an urban, landscape-driven master plan at the 17-acre Balboa Reservoir site. Located adjacent to the San Francisco […]
Creating Vibrant Neighborhoods with Affordable Housing Please join us for CREW SF's First Real Estate Luncheon of 2022! This year we welcome a group of panelists to share their expertise on the up-and-coming Balboa Reservoir Affordable Housing Development, and expand on the future of this project […]
A dozen Bay Area projects snag $279M in funding from California Strategic Growth Council Source: The Business Journal
By Sarah Klearman – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times [caption id="attachment_9092" align="alignnone" width="720"] A rendering of Bridge's 124-unit affordable project at Balboa Reservoir made public by San Francisco. The project received […]
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 […]
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 disputed Balboa Reservoir parking lot. This 32-year-old winning masterplan featured a plaza connecting 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 […]
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 […]