SAN FRANCISCO | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed - Page 154

CyberEric · #**3061** Posted: **Jul 7, 2011, 4:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by cityjogger

City College building in Chinatown - finally started removing the big blue plywood sheets from the top floor yesterday.

Anyone have pictures yet?

Also, this project seems to be moving forward in Potrero.

http://www.dbarchitect.com/project_d...0%20Place.html

CyberEric · #**3062** Posted: **Jul 12, 2011, 11:08 PM**

A couple small projects in the Mission and Hayes Valley as reported by socketsite:

The Mission:
http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2....html#comments

Hayes Valley:
http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2....html#comments

1977 · #**3063** Posted: **Jul 13, 2011, 11:55 PM**

A short video showing what to expect (at least externally) from the revitalization of the Metreon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsjk...layer_embedded

peanut gallery · #**3064** Posted: **Jul 14, 2011, 7:50 PM**

Eric - your Mission and Hayes links both lead to 399 Fremont, which I'll mention is extending their window to build another year. And Daggett Place looks interesting.

Cool video, 1977. I have high hopes for the revamped Metreon.

edwards · #**3065** Posted: **Jul 16, 2011, 2:09 AM**

Ignore.....

edwards · #**3066** Posted: **Jul 16, 2011, 2:11 AM**

From http://www.costar.com/News/Article/S...Project/130265:

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The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency is seeking proposals from developers to buy two parcels near the site of the future Transbay Transit Center and master develop a high-density residential project with ground-floor retail and a child care center.

The site is two blocks south of the transit center, a planned $4 billion development scheduled to open in 2017 that is one of the largest public/private projects in the U.S. In addition to replacing the Transbay Terminal, the development calls for development of up to 13 high-rise buildings that will dramatically reshape San Francisco’s famous skyline.

The two parcels, on Folsom Street between Fremont and Beale Streets, border the Financial District and are close to the Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Gardens, AT&T Ballpark and Mission Bay, according to the request for proposals (RFP). The project calls for about 345 units of market rate rental housing in a 30-story tower and 100 to 150 family affordable rental units in multiple building ranging from three to eight stories.

The two blocks are part of the Transbay redevelopment project area, a 40-acre redevelopment district at the foot of Rincon Hill. The redevelopment agency will accept proposals from developers through Oct. 5 before entering into exclusive negotiations with the selected development team with the goal of executing a development and disposition agreement and issuing all project approvals.

The agency is seeking a private for-profit developer to head the market-rate project and a non-profit housing developer for the affordable portion, along with architects to design both properties and a property manager for the affordable portion.

City officials put out a request for bids on the parcels last December. But uncertainty over Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to abolish redevelopment agencies statewide to channel more revenue into state coffers caused the agency to put the RFP on hold.

It now seems that the agencies will continue as going concerns, although the new bidding guidelines stipulate that the properties will revert to ownership by the city and county of San Francisco if the redevelopment agency ceases to exist.

peanut gallery · #**3067** Posted: **Jul 16, 2011, 6:21 AM**

^For anyone who doesn't already know, this currently single plot will be divided by a new street that will continue all the way to Spear and is zoned for 85' to the north of the new street and 300' to the south. The last time they put one of these properties out to bid, the results were not as good as hoped for. Hopefully the timing is better this time around.

CyberEric · #**3068** Posted: **Jul 18, 2011, 7:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by peanut gallery

Eric - your Mission and Hayes links both lead to 399 Fremont, which I'll mention is extending their window to build another year. And Daggett Place looks interesting.

Cool video, 1977. I have high hopes for the revamped Metreon.

Whoops, here is the link for the Mission project: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...1501_15th.html

And Hayes Valley: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...enderings.html

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Originally Posted by peanut gallery

^For anyone who doesn't already know, this currently single plot will be divided by a new street that will continue all the way to Spear and is zoned for 85' to the north of the new street and 300' to the south. The last time they put one of these properties out to bid, the results were not as good as hoped for. Hopefully the timing is better this time around.

Agreed, I think they may have better luck this time. I am a little disappointed by the relatively low heights, but the other tower projects around should (someday) make up for that.

1977 · #**3069** Posted: **Jul 19, 2011, 4:03 AM**

I found a webcam for the new PUC building. I know there was some discussion about it's current progress over in the CCSF Chinatown Campus thread.

http://earthcam.com/clients/sfwater/

viewguysf · #**3070** Posted: **Jul 19, 2011, 5:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by CyberEric

Whoops, here is the link for the Mission project: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...1501_15th.html

And Hayes Valley: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...enderings.html

I love the boldness of the Mission project and dislike the blandness of the Hayes Valley project since it's more of the same and doesn't contrast well with the existing buildings on Gough Street.

peanut gallery · #**3071** Posted: **Jul 28, 2011, 11:55 PM**

Thanks 1977. They are making steady (albeit somewhat slow) progress. Understandable given the unconventional nature of the facade.

Kind of OT, but the webcam page has a local weather widget that says it's currently 93 degrees and feels like 109 degrees! Is their sensor on someone's engine block or something?

kpexpress · #**3072** Posted: **Aug 2, 2011, 6:28 PM**

hey I min San fracisco for five days and I want to know the just see places (tourist or non-tourist) and must see buildings (new or old). Help.

San Frangelino · #**3073** Posted: **Aug 11, 2011, 2:05 PM**

I posted this in the Hunter's Point thread, but thought it was worth mentioning here as well.

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Originally Posted by San Frangelino

Here's a rendering of the Executive Park Redevelopment Plan, just around the corner from Hunter's Point.

From: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2011/0...e_who_wait.php

CyberEric · #**3074** Posted: **Aug 11, 2011, 8:58 PM**

Cool, thanks for the update!

peanut gallery · #**3075** Posted: **Aug 18, 2011, 1:00 AM**

Didn't realize this was happening, but the CPMC medical building (part of the new hospital proposal) on Van Ness underwent design changes based on input from the Planning Commission.

From the SF Business Times:

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California Pacific Medical Center revamps MOB plans at Cathedral Hill
San Francisco Business Times - by Chris Rauber
Monday, August 15, 2011

California Pacific Medical Center , under fire from several quarters for its plans for a $1.7 billion Cathedral Hill hospital and medical office complex near downtown San Francisco, is altering the design of its nine-story, 496,000-square-foot medical office building there.

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CPMC made the design changes in response to concerns at the San Francisco Planning Commission about the original “design and scale,” according to an Aug. 11 memo to Planning Commissioners from Elizabeth Watty of the department’s staff. Commissioners wanted the MOB to be more compatible with historic buildings along Van Ness Avenue, “more contextual” and related architecturally to nearby buildings, and smaller in scale.

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Among other changes, Watty’s memo noted, CPMC agreed to:

-Replace the structure’s proposed “glass skin” with a concrete cladding with an infilled building grid and "large glass openings” to more closely match neighboring structures.
-Replace the original asymmetrical design with a symmetrical one.
-Put the entry in the center of the structure, rather than the corner.
-Lower the podium to align with other structures nearby, setting back the upper portion from the Van Ness podium facade “to reinforce this structure at the street.”
-Add a “contemporary cornice” at the top to link with other buildings in the vicinity with “strong cornices along the street.”
-Replace large expanses of glass with GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete), “which has a heavier quality and is more similar to the materials of the historic buildings along Van Ness Avenue.”
-“Break up the bulk” of the proposed MOB by using a variety of materials, such as stone, GFRC and glass, and more variation in depth on the building’s facade.

peanut gallery · #**3076** Posted: **Aug 18, 2011, 1:04 AM**

I've tried several times to post the rendering but it just won't work. So go here to check it out:
http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfra...OB*900.jpg?v=1

And I forgot that we have a thread for this, so please go here to comment. Boy, you'd think this was a Monday.

pseudolus · #**3077** Posted: **Aug 18, 2011, 11:51 PM**

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WesternGulf · #**3078** Posted: **Aug 19, 2011, 7:58 AM**

Some images I found of the u/c Ocean Avenue mixed use project adjacent to City College on Ocean Avenue.

http://www.pyatok.com/portfolio/ocean.html

http://www.pyatok.com/portfolio/ocean.html

Interesting design for the only Whole Foods on the south side of the city considering the higher car ownership on that side of town, but I wouldn't expect anything different considering how transit rich Ocean Avenue is. Just another reason why I love SF.

pseudolus · #**3079** Posted: **Aug 19, 2011, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by WesternGulf

Some images I found of the u/c Ocean Avenue mixed use project adjacent to City College on Ocean Avenue.

http://www.pyatok.com/portfolio/ocean.html

http://www.pyatok.com/portfolio/ocean.html

Interesting design for the only Whole Foods on the south side of the city considering the higher car ownership on that side of town, but I wouldn't expect anything different considering how transit rich Ocean Avenue is. Just another reason why I love SF.

I walked by last weekend, so can give a status report. For the building on the left, wood framing was just starting on the top floor. For the Whole Foods building on the right, they were finishing up the concrete podium first floor.

There will be underground parking for both buildings.

I was disappointed to see that the buildings extend beyond the street wall of the buildings to the west. (The new library does too.) I hope it doesn't result in a too narrow sidewalk for an area that is likely to see a lot of foot traffic.

peanut gallery · #**3080** Posted: **Aug 20, 2011, 6:54 PM**

Thanks for the update, guys. I wasn't aware of this one and honestly am not very familiar with that part of town. I was checking what I believe to be the project area on Google maps. Is this the lot between the bus turnaround and the library? If so, what was that building it replaced?

Also, is there any news on developing the Balboa reservoirs? The latest info I can find calls for the western reservoir to be a mixed-use neighborhood to match the surrounding grid -- in fact this Whole Foods development seems to be the beginning of that effort (assuming that's Brighton extending north of Ocean in the renderings) -- and the western reservoir to be transfered to City College for campus expansion. From what I've read, that's all in various stages of negotiation and approval. But everything I found was from April or earlier. Just curious if there's anything more recent. Thanks!