By Marin Independent Journal Guests sing along and snap photos while the Bread and Roses Holiday Swing Band performs during Vivalon’s annual Holiday Celebration at their Healthy Aging Campus in San Rafael, Calif. on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal) Vivalon held a holiday lunch on […]
By Andrew Faulkner, Associate, Architect, and Senior Urban Designer Over the past 20 years VMWP has worked with communities around the United States to reimagine regional malls and large format retail centers, transforming them into vibrant connected communities, resilient anchors for local economies, and revitalized centers […]
Today, Mayor London N. Breed joined City officials, community leaders, and housing advocates to celebrate the grand opening of Islais Place, a new 100% family-oriented affordable housing project in District 11. The project includes 137 apartments affordable to households making between 30% and 103% of […]
Today we celebrate the ribbon cutting of BRIDGE Housing's Islais Place at 4840 Mission Street in San Francisco, California. It is one of the first new 100% affordable housing developments built in San Francisco’s District 11 and one of the first major projects in the […]
Please join us to tour VMWP San Francisco' s architectural and urban design firm Van Meter Williams Pollack (VMWP) is an award-winning Architecture and Urban Design firm based in San Francisco, Denver, and Minneapolis. VMWP specializes in affordable housing, mixed-use and market-rate housing, master planning, land […]
Van Meter Williams Pollack (VMWP) is proud to be an annual supporting sponsor, volunteer, and charrette leader of the 2024 Housing Colorado Conference in Keystone, Colorado, October 9-11, 2024. VMWP supports Housing Colorado an industry resource for all aspects of affordable housing, including professional advocacy, issue expertise, and […]
Urban Designer, Rick Williams, will be presenting "It's Not Just a Dream: The Joys and Struggles of Realizing a Transit-Oriented Vision" at Mpact Transit + Community Conference 2024
The Mpact Transit + Community Conference (formerly Rail~Volution) focuses on the interplay of transit, mobility, land use and […]
The Half Moon Bay City Council voted unanimously to deny appeals attempting to block 555 Kelly, a 40-unit, downtown apartment complex for senior farmworkers, clearing the way for the project to continue. Congratulations to Mercy Housing and to ALAS, who has compiled this impressive list of […]
Half Moon Bay residents appealed approval of senior farmworker housing. Here’s what the City Council just decided
Under the threat of legal action from Gov. Gavin Newsom, council decides on the fate of the housing project Nonprofit developer Mercy Housing is applying to build a 40-unit, 100% […]
Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing to Go Forward After Council Rejects Appeals Source: KQED Author: Vanessa Rancaño The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Half Moon Bay officials cleared the way for an embattled affordable housing project for farmworkers to move forward, […]