Flashback: Planned Archstone Rentals in SoMa

Flashback: Planned Archstone Rentals in SoMa

November 10th, 2009

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Way back in 2007, the SF Business Times reported that rental developer and Fox Plaza owner Archstone was about to buy the big Golden Gate Transit parking lot on the northwest corner of 8th and Harrison in SoMa. The parcel would go for $35 million, and that particular era of San Francisco construction would have made it look very attractive indeed for something like the above: up to 720 rental units designed by Kava Massih Architects for the 3-acre site. Fun fact: at one point, Target was looking into the lot too! ('Course, if things go well at the Metreon, they'll get their San Francisco store anyway.) At the moment, there's nothing in the housing pipeline indicating a project at 350 8th, so perhaps Archstone's (wisely) waiting for a thaw in the market.
· Archstone Smith makes play to build SoMa rentals [SFBT]
· Fox Plaza's Baby Brother Passes the Wind Test [Curbed SF]

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Exploratorium, Embarcadero-Style: This is it, sort of! Following...

November 10th, 2009

This is it, sort of! Following a thumbs up from the Port Commission, the Exploratorium's plan to dial U-Haul and move to a bigger house on piers 15 and 17 has also been officially rubber stamped by the Board of Supervisors. Now it needs approval nods from two more commissions: the State Lands Commission and San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. The project was designed by EHDD Architecture, or more specifically Marc L'Italien, who just got ink last week on Curbed for heading a Berkeley studio on the Bay Bridge condos. [City Insider, previously]