Source: City of Houston Housing and Community Development
Safe and affordable apartments will provide new homes and new opportunities
Mayor Sylvester Turner joined community members in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward today for the groundbreaking of St. Elizabeth Place, a new community of 85 apartment homes. Approved as […]
Source: SFYIMBY, Andrew Nelson Demolition permits have been filed for twelve buildings along Sunnydale Avenue as part of Blocks One through Four in the Sunnydale HOPE SF redevelopment plan. The Sunnydale community was originally built during World War Two but has since become one of San Francisco’s most […]
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: Times Telegram; Author: Donna Thompson
The former Duofold property in Ilion has been sold.
The Ilion village board Monday approved the sale of the property, which has been vacant for nearly two decades, to some local investors for $100,000, according to Mayor Brian Lamica.
The identity of […]
Source: KQED; Author: Erin Baldassari Letta “Oneka” Glover sits in a common area of an office building in San Rafael that is converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness on May 17, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) When Letta “Oneka” Glover checked into the shelter in San Rafael, […]
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 […]
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 […]
St. Elizabeth Place breathes new life into historic Fifth Ward hospital
Demolition permits filed for 12 structures for Sunnydale HOPE SF, San Francisco
Balboa Reservoir has won a California Chapter APA California State Merit Award
Ilion selling abandoned Duofold factory to local investors. Officials mum about plans
Faster, Cheaper: How California Is Revolutionizing Homeless Housing — And Why It Might Not Last
Balboa Reservoir was part of VMWP’s inception
Balboa Reservoir has been awarded the 2021 APA Urban Design Award of Excellence
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