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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: Balboa Reservoir project creates an urban, landscape-driven master plan at the 17-acre Balboa Reservoir site. Located adjacent to the San Francisco […]

Gwinnett Place team releases two proposals for mall redevelopment

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Alia Malik The firm planning the redevelopment of Gwinnett Place on Friday released two proposed conceptual designs of the site, a milestone after years of occasionally eccentric dreams for the nearly-abandoned mall’s future. “It’s not going to be a mall anymore,” said Rick Williams, […]

Presenting Balboa Reservoir Affordable Housing at CREW SF

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 […]

Balboa Reservoir’s affordable housing Building E receives funding

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 […]

Moving on up: 2022 VMWP promotions

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. […]

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 […]

Balboa Reservoir was Part of VMWP’s Inception

[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 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 […]

After decades of trying, SF supervisors finally approve 1,100 homes at Balboa Reservoir

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 […]

The Balboa Reservoir project will be a huge benefit to the community

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 […]

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