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REDI meeting Community Feature: 10 Years of the Real Estate Diversity Initiative

This is the 10th year for the highly successful Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI), which is a comprehensive real estate development training and mentorship. Throughout the program, participants work in teams with mentors to create a development phasing plan using a pro forma and market […]

Community Feature: Farmscape, The Largest Urban Farming Company in the Country

Since 2008, Farmscape, the largest urban farming company in the country, has designed and installed over 700 projects with a talented team of landscape architects, contractors and urban farmers. Today the Veteran’s Village team alongside Colma students and residents, helped to plant the trees in […]

Warm Springs Featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal

Silicon Valley Business Journal: Fremont in focus: Housing rises in Warm Springs as developers wait for commercial contracts The first residents have moved into Fremont’s Warm Springs Innovation District, though the view from their condos and townhomes — where prices start around $850,000 and rise to […]

Andrew Faulkner ‘Talking with New Urbanists’ at CNU 27

Talking with New Urbanists​ Wednesday, June 12 – Thursday, June 13, 2019 Join us at the studios of Louisville Public Media and 89.3 WFPL​ 619 S. 4th Street, a block from the Seelbach Hilton Hotel In partnership with Louisville Public Media and 89.3 WFPL, the Congress for the New […]

These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns. A project called Nuns and Nones moved religion-free millennials into a convent.

The New York Times new piece about the Sisters of Mercy, from the Burlingame campus, and their fascinating connection to their new non-religious millennial roommates. BURLINGAME, Calif. — Sarah Jane Bradley was an unmarried, “spiritual but not religious” professional in her early 30s, with a rowdy […]

El Cerrito Celebrates Grand Opening of Hana Gardens Senior Apartments

El Cerrito, CA - The City of El Cerrito, Eden Housing, and Van Meter Williams Pollack celebrate the grand opening of Hana Gardens Senior Apartments, in El Cerrito. Hana Gardens Senior Apartments is a 63 unit mixed-use senior affordable housing community adjacent to City Hall and […]

Crossing Pointe Featured in APA Colorado’s Planning Matters Newsletter

Jeos Oreamuno writes the lead article, Generational Bond: Affordable Senior Housing Helping Families Grow Old Together, in the American Planning Association Colorado Chapter's May 2019 newsletter, Planning Matters. The Adams County housing authority, Unison Housing Partners, applies progressive housing solutions in the framing of multigenerational housing models. Crossing […]

703 Third Street Wins Design Approval

In a 4-0-2 vote Tuesday, the San Rafael Design Review Board gave a thumbs-up to the project at 703 Third St. and 898 Lincoln Ave., two contiguous lots bounded by Tamalpais Avenue and next to the San Rafael Transit Center. Board members Larry Paul and […]

Mayor London N. Breed, Supervisor Shamann Walton, and Community Members Celebrated the Grand Opening of 1101 Connecticut

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed, Supervisor Shamann Walton, and community members today celebrated the grand opening of 1101 Connecticut Avenue, a 71-unit affordable housing development that is the first project to be completed as part of the HOPE SF Potrero Hill Master […]

Grand Opening of Hana Gardens Senior Apartments

Please Join us for the Grand Opening Celebration for Hana Gardens Senior Apartments   10860 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530 Monday, May 13, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Refreshments will be provided after the program. The City of El Cerrito and Eden Housing are proud to partner on Hana […]

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