The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously March 1 to place a measure on the June 7 ballot that will mandate doubling the number of affordable housing units to be included in new developments.
The Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure, the successor agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, approved a height increase for the residential tower at 160 Folsom proposed by developer Tishman Speyer at its Jan. 19 meeting.
Work is progressing nicely on a new 43-story office building under construction at Howard and Beale streets in the Transbay Transit District. Clark Construction Group is the general contractor, with subcontractors Bigge Crane and Condon-Johnson currently doing excavation, pile driving and grading. Between 10 and 20 union operating engineers, laborers and pile drivers are currently on the jobsite.
The California Pacific Medical Center celebrated a milestone in its construction of a new Cathedral Hill hospital at Van Ness and Geary with a topping off ceremony and catered lunch for the construction crew on Dec. 8.
The San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council recently finalized Project Labor Agreements with developer Forest City and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). SFBCTC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Michael Theriault said that the Council is also close to reaching a PLA with Universal Paragon Corporation for the development of the former Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley. The projects are expected to generate several thousand construction jobs over the next decade.
As the Golden State Warriors continued their winning ways on the basketball court in December, the team also won at City Hall, as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors rejected an appeal of the Environmental Impact Report for the Warriors’ proposed arena in Mission Bay, near the UCSF Medical Center.
Several hundred building trades union members worked intensively during the week leading up to the start of Super Bowl related events in San Francisco to set up Super Bowl City at the Embarcadero and the NFL Experience at the Moscone Center, which opened on Jan. 30.
The American Conservatory Theater is setting the stage for change in San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood, having recently completed a two-year and $33.5 million reclamation project on the area’s historic Strand Theater. A.C.T. broke ground on the project in 2013 after purchasing the theater, located on 1127 Market St., the previous year.
