06/14/2020 - this portion of the development will be separated from the other building by a new alley. Interesting to see the combination of steel & wood construction.
Here is a link to Worldco for the architect's image.
a bit more of a couple of the ongoing streetscape projects ... first is Second St-- no, wait, let's not be confusing. first is Folsom, where there is much less disruption as most major stretches are largely complete, but there are still spots such as the corner across from Philz (on Beale) that look like this:
and the farthest east corner, at Spear:
OK, now, second is Second St, where the barriers have been removed around the mouth of the entrance to South Park
and the stretch around Taber Pl, which you might recall was all torn up a month or so ago:
Housing vs. trees: SF backs 744 homes at UCSF Laurel Heights campus
S.F. supervisors approved a 744-unit housing and retail complex to replace this UCSF building at 3333 California St.
Champions of housing beat out urban tree advocates as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to transform the UCSF Laurel Heights campus into a 744-unit housing and retail complex.
Despite protests from many neighbors — who said the project at 3333 California St. is out of scale with the residential enclave and would destroy too many mature trees — the board on Tuesday night backed the project. More than five years in the making, the proposal includes 186 affordable units for seniors, a child care facility, 5 acres of open space and 35,000 square feet of retail.
The project would be one of the largest built in that area of the city, ...
Though opponents can still file a lawsuit over the project, the developer has a secret weapon: The proposal is covered under a state law that would speed up any court challenge to 270 days. The development team, San Francisco-based Prado Group and SKS Partners, hopes to break ground by early 2021, after UCSF, which occupies the hulking office building now on the site, moves its employees to Mission Bay next year.
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The developers emphasized that the project would be tree-friendly. Though a total of 226 existing trees will be axed, 512 new trees will be planted, including 88 street trees next to the property.
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Supervisor will ask voters to authorize San Francisco to create 10,000 units of social housing
By Laura Waxmann – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times
Jun 16, 2020, 4:26pm PDT Updated Jun 16, 2020, 4:28pm PDT
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston announced Tuesday he plans to place a ballot measure on the November ballot that seeks to authorize San Francisco to acquire, develop or construct 10,000 units of permanently affordable social housing.
Currently, localities like San Francisco are prohibited from creating municipally-owned housing by Article 34 of the California Constitution, which was approved by voters in 1950 as part of what Preston characterized as "redlining and segregation policies of that era" during a board of supervisors hearing on Tuesday.
Preston's proposal seeks to exempt San Francisco from that prohibition, and would require the support of a simple majority of the board to be placed on the ballot . . . .
Because San Francisco city government has demonstrated such a fine ability to manage public housing (not):
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San Francisco must take over troubled Housing Authority
By Adam Brinklow Mar 8, 2019, 2:26pm PST
The San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) got word this week that San Francisco city government will take over most of its duties, as the federal government is fed up with what it calls mismanagement and financial irresponsibility at the agency that manages housing vouchers in SF.
Mayor London Breed said via email Thursday that SFHA “received notice from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that SFHA is in default of various agreements and obligations.”
HUD alleges that the Housing Authority has not been keeping up with necessary financial reports and has neglected oversight of its budgets.
The HUD move comes after a nearly $30 million budget deficit in 2018 required a bailout for SFHA from both the city and the feds . . . .
timbad - thanks for the update for 9th & Howard streets. I can't see the foundation from my apartment. I did not know how much the foundation work had progressed until I saw you photo!
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I just posted this in the SF Transportation thread, but figured I might as well post here as well, since it may lead to future development (like a combined N/J subterranean station under Church St between Market and Duboce).
A major change coming for Muni Metro when train service restarts:
As someone who regularly takes the J, this will be a huge improvement in reliability. This change is also the first step in this proposal, which has been around for some time:
Iceman12 - thanks for the update. I did not expect activity there for awhile! Look forward to walking by next week on the way to Safeway. A very large project in my neighborhood.
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The shrouding on the modest-sized residential building on Golden Gate next to the PUC building (between Van Ness and Polk), now dubbed "Elevant", has finally come off:
I'm not enamored of the renderings on many of the sections of this one, but really am looking forward to seeing this block filled and more active. very welcome news!
also nice to see the progress on the Golden Gate one - I had just been by last weekend hoping to see something more than the shroud, and was disappointed.
here a mostly sidewalk/streetscape update...
more of the southernmost blocks of Second St have been paved now, so things overall looking much cleaner
one thing I had not noticed in the schematics for the project was that the cut-through right-hand turn lane from Second onto Harrison was being eliminated, apparently:
and, they're still working on some of the more involved corner bulb-outs on Folsom. this one is across from 100 Folsom
the affordable one near the Embarcadero and the future Teatro ZinZanni site
architects chosen for the massive replacement hospital at UCSF Parnassus
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Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss architects of de Young Museum, selected to do S.F. hospital
John King July 7, 2020
The Swiss architects who turned heads with their metal-clad de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park have been selected to design an even larger project — a new hospital for UCSF not far to the south in Parnassus Heights.
The firm, Herzog & de Meuron, will take the lead role in what is envisioned as a nearly 1 million-square-foot facility that is part of a larger remake of the densely built campus. The target completion date is 2030, and the number of beds would increase from 475 to 675.
... much of Herzog & de Meuron’s work in Switzerland involves medicine and technology, and it also has designed a hospital in Denmark that will be built with a cloverleaf form around an expansive garden.
... no physical concept for the planned facility exists as yet — and no design work would likely begin before 2021, after several community meetings.
The pricetag for the overall hospital project will likely top $3 billion, since it will include such costs as dismantling older structures and doing seismic upgrades to one of the current hospital buildings. The Helen Diller Foundation already has pledged $500 million to the hospital project alone.
Besides Herzog & de Meuron, the design team includes HDR as architect of record. The latter firm has a San Francisco office and has done extensive hospital work in California, including the colorful outpatient building at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland.