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Celebrating Groundbreaking of Motel Conversion and Affordable Housing with RCD

We celebrate Bell Street Gardens groundbreaking with Resources for Community Development and our partners.     The Bell Street Gardens project in Fremont, California is a two-building affordable housing redevelopment. The first building is the renovation of the existing two-story motel that will include the addition of a […]

The Tubbs Fire leveled parts of this Bay Area city; it’s been rebuilt with more housing density

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Author: J.K. Dineen [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] LEFT: The dining area at Laurel at Perennial Park in Santa Rosa. RIGHT: Lights inside a dining area at Laurel at Perennial Park. Photos by Yalonda James/The Chronicle[/caption] Laurel at Perennial Park is a new housing development […]

Celebrating the Grand Opening of Crossing Pointe South

Today we celebrate the Grand Opening of Maiker Housing's Crossing Pointe South, a new affordable family housing community, in Thornton, Colorado. Congratulations to the VMWP Team: Brett Jacques, Jeos Oreamuno, to owners Maiker Housing Partners, Peter LiFari, Steven Kunshier, JHL Constructors, Jason Bergey, Douglas Dreier, Enterprise […]

APA MN: Andrew Faulkner Presents Wayzata Urban Design Standards

Andrew Faulkner, Associate Architect | Urban Designer, will be presenting at American Planning Association Minnesota: Urban Design Standards: Theory vs. Practice in the City of Wayzata (1 CM) 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Description The City of Wayzata implemented a set of design standards in 2021 that affect nearly every major […]

Mayor Breed, Balboa Reservoir is an example of revitalization

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. […]

Rise City affordable housing project has been approved in Redwood City

Fully affordable Redwood City housing project approved Source: Daily Journal [caption id="attachment_10730" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Rendering: Van Meter Williams Pollack (VMWP)[/caption] A 94-unit, fully affordable housing proposal was recently approved in Redwood City through Senate Bill 35, state legislation that allows projects to move forward after city staff […]

Funding for 231 grant approved by Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

Santa Clara County approves $21 million loan to cover increased construction costs of teacher housing project in Palo Alto Source: Mercury News By GABRIEL GRESCHLER | ggreschler@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 11, 2022 at 5:04 p.m. | UPDATED: January 12, 2022 at 4:25 a.m. In approving […]

Planning firm with transit expertise selected to lead Gwinnett Place revitalization

Source: Atlanta Business Journal , Grace Donnelly The years-long dream of transforming the former Gwinnett Place Mall into a modern retail center and transit hub is one step closer to reality. The Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID) selected planning firm Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.(VHB) to lead […]