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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Lauren Daley "What makes a resident truly happy boils down to how someone makes them feel, not a building, unit, or space, but a positive connection to another person." When I transferred from VMWP’s San Francisco office to VMWP’s Denver office back in 2016, I was […]
Source: Denverite
Donna Bryson | Monday, September 9, 2019
Thornton officials say the city is ready to accommodate growth from all corners, including seniors aging out of their houses and people fleeing Denver’s high prices. The interiors are painted trendy shades of grey and bathed in natural light. Kitchens […]
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
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
The Balboa Reservoir project will be a huge benefit to the community
Staff Feature: Lauren Daley Connects Architect with Resident at Affordable Housing Project in West Denver
A new development to the north shows how some Denver suburbs are responding to a regional housing crisis