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(08.18.2010) Market-Rate Faculty Complex Debuts in Pricey Redwood City

Those in the business of education do not earn the sky-high salaries that, say, professional actors and athletes command, so the availability of market-rate housing, particularly in high-price residential markets, is a key concern

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(08.12.2010) Surplus Parking Lot Creates Workforce Housing

OAKLAND, CA – KTGY Group, Inc., Architectural and Planning, is pleased to announce that a much anticipated housing development for professors and staff of the San Mateo County Community College District

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(06.20.2010) Seeking warm reception

New suburban condos try to defy tough times

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(03.28.2010) Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence 2009

ULI Selects 2009
Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Award Recipients

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(03.26.2010) 555YVR Walnut Creek embraces urban multi-unit style

Walnut Creek is a suburban city undergoing an urban make-over, and condo development 555YVR is yet another sign of the change.

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(01.15.2010) Boutique condo project 555YVR makes 30th sale

Walnut Creek – Thompson Dorfman Partners 555YVR has logged its 30th sale in Walnut Creek. The project is attracting about half BART commuters – mostly workers from San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont – and about half current Walnut Creek residents.

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(01.10.2010) Triple digits

Contemporary, eco-friendly urban living comes to Bay Area ‘burbs

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(12.28.2009) New and Below $730K, Condo Marketer Sees Low Supply

SAN FRANCISCO-Increased demand and limited supply will trigger price movement in new Bay Area condominiums priced under $729,000

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(12.24.2009) Increased Demand And Lower Inventory Signals Condominium Price Climb

Pacific Marketing Associates (www.pmateam.com), the Bay Area’s leading provider of sales and marketing services for urban residential real estate developers, predicts increased demand and limited supply will trigger price movement in at least one sector

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(11.30.2009) The Design Excellence Awards 2009

Winners

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(11.23.2009) Educational Incentive

Casa del Maestro, a housing development created especially for teachers

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(11.05.2009) The Urban Land Institute Selects Four Exemplary Workforce Housing Developments As Winners

The Urban Land Institute Selects Four Exemplary Workforce Housing Developments As Winners Of The 2009 Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models Of Excellence Awards

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(10.19.2009) 555YVR Seeing Strong Activity, Closing Deals

WALNUT CREEK, CA- The first residents of downtown Walnut Creek’s newest condominium residences are moving in.

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(09.10.2009) Walnut Creek Condominium 25 Percent Sold; Occupancy Beginning this Fall

Walnut Creek, Calif. 555YVR, Downtown Walnut Creek’s first live-work-shop-play residences, are nearly completed.

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(09.04.2009) Executive profile: William Thompson

Background: Thompson joined Trammell Crow Residential as a partner overseeing Northern California.

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(05.17.2009) Condo Complex developers optimistic

Walnut Creek: Owners say amenities, proximity to BART will draw residents, despite market

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(04.07.2009) More Affordable Housing for Teachers Opens in Santa Clara

Public private partnership between South Bay school district and Mill Valley-based developer delivers another teacher housing project ahead of schedule and under budget

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(09.26.2008) Affordable apartments built for teachers

Developer Bruce Dorfman says his Mill Valley company, Thompson/Dorfman Partners LLC, hasn’t made money building affordable apartments for the Santa Clara Unified School District in the past eight years.

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(09.22.2008) School offers teachers housing incentive

SANTA CLARA, CA (KGO) — School administrators in Santa Clara are taking extreme steps to keep their teachers happy with an unusual lottery. It’s improving the quality-of-life and creating some friendly competition.

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(07.18.2008) Getting Schooled

Thompson | Dorfman educates industry on benefits of teacher housing

In 2001, Thompson | Dorfman completed Phase I of Casa del Maestro, the first faculty housing community built for a public school district in California.

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(05.27.2008) School District Adding to Teacher Housing Supply

The Santa Clara Unified School District says it will develop additional affordable housing for teachers this year after finding that its first project — the first faculty housing community built for a public school district in the state.

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(04.18.2008) Mixed-use development planned at Wyse HQ in N. San Jose

The 33-acre headquarters of Wyse Technologies Inc. on San Jose’s North First Street corridor is slated to be transformed into a compact modern community mixing residential, retail and recreational uses.

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(04.07.2008) 2008 NAHB Multifamily Pillars of the Industry Award Winner for Best Affordable Housing Rental Commun

Because of high housing costs in Northern California’s Bay area, local colleges had trouble attracting and keeping the best teachers and staff members.

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(11.24.2007) Mill Valley housing project for teachers is up for discussion

An innovative housing proposal for Mill Valley teachers will be reviewed by city officials and community members this week

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(11.04.2007) College Vista has housing on campus that faculty can afford

Brandon Smith loves walking to work in just 10 minutes.

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(10.16.2007) Loch Lomond Marina development up for sale

The land and rights to build at Loch Lomond Marina are for sale, a residential developer involved with the East San Rafael property said Monday.

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(10.05.2007) Making Housing More At Home

Marin County warms – slightly – to affordable housing with political changes, truce between advocates and activists.

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(08.09.2007) Housing Projects Growing Strong

Although housing is said to be in a slump regionally, multifamily housing projects are going like gangbusters in Walnut Creek.

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(07.30.2007) California Dream

A school district’s rental unit proves to be the path to homeownership for a California teacher.

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(07.30.2007) When Builders Buy In

Under the right conditions, home builders will gladly work closely with communities to build affordable housing.

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(07.09.2007) State May Have Your Property…

According to the state controllers office, the state is holding $5.1 billion in unclaimed property.

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(07.06.2007) Condo complex to offer ‘live-work’ units

Construction is expected to begin today on a condo development at 555 Ygnacio Valley Road on the site of former JFK University buildings.

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(06.28.2007) People On The Move – Appointments

KTGY Group Inc. won a design award for College Vista& Thompson Dorfman Partners of Sausalito was the developer and Devcon Construction Inc. of Milpidas was the builder.

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(06.11.2007) Gold Nugget Awards Honors 2007 Winners

The Gold Nugget Awards were recently presented to winners at a gala in San Francisco, attended by more than 800 real estate industry professionals.

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(10.01.2006) Workforce Housing Innovative Strategies and Best Practices, Case Studies: Successful Developments

Casa del Maestro: Santa Clara, California

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(09.01.2006) The Long Road Home

Until it’s embraced with a positive attitude, Marin’s workforce housing will remain in short supply.

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(02.01.2006) Southern California Outshines Most Other Markets

With strong job growth and population gains and some of the highest home prices in the nation, Southern California’s apartment market is robust.

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(01.14.2006) Bridging the gap

EVERY year, the Government sets aside a hefty allocation of funds from the nation’s annual Budget for the provision of affordable housing.

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(12.18.2005) Creating Housing for Teachers

Santa Clara, Calif. AIMEE BRINKS, a teacher in her late 20’s, lives by herself in a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with a private garage and patio in the heart of Silicon Valley, one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets.

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(08.01.2005) Short takes

When she arrived in the district to take her first full-time teaching job at Pomeroy Elementary School five years ago, Katherine Watson liked everything about the Santa Clara Unified School District.

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(01.20.2005) JV Scores $112M on New Apartment Communities in Bay Area

Opus West Group and Thompson/Dorfman Partners L.L.C. cashed in on two multi-family developments, one in Santa Rosa, Calif. for $19.5 million and another in Emeryville for $92 million. State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio bought the brand new communiti

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(01.14.2005) $92M sale may signal rental market peak

The $92 million sale of an Emeryville apartment complex has some market observers wondering if the apartment investment market has peaked.

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(01.12.2005) Opus Sells Pair of Apartment Buildings for $111M

EMERYVILLE, CA-A joint venture of Opus West and Thompson | Dorfman Partners LLC have sold two new high-end apartment properties to the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio for a total of $111.5 million.

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(10.27.2004) In California, Housing Is A Staff-Retention Tool

A residential-development firm broke ground earlier this week on an employer-sponsored housing complex in the San Francisco Bay area, harking back to the days of the company town.

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(09.01.2004) Apartment Developers Capitalize on Demographic Niches

In July 2003 occupancy at Arbor Mill Apartments in Norcross, Ga., hit 85%, a 10-point drop after a wave of lease expirations struck the 274-unit property. Worse, a drop-off in the number of potential renters contacting leasing agents provided scant hope t

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(03.11.2004) First New Upscale Apartments Built In Santa Rosa In Past 10 Years

Thompson | Dorfman well underway with their next high end community in Fountaingrove

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(03.05.2004) Building proposal for Loch Lomond Marina

Bruno’s supermarket [foreground] and the Loch Lomand Marina are viewed from the hills above Point San Pedro Road. After years of wrangling with neighbors over the future of San Rafael’s Loch Lomond Marina, developers have made a formal bid to build on the

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(03.01.2004) Workforce Housing: Developing a Universal Concept on the Front Lines

The concept of workforce housing was a hot topic a few years back, especially in markets such as northern California, where rents were out of reach for many public service employees. But the challenges that local municipalities face in retaining employees

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San Francisco Chronicle March 16, 2023 Danielle Echeverria Residents got a chance Thursday night to weigh in on Marin County’s largest affordable housing project in 50 years, as a new report shows what the project will look like and spells...
SF YIMBY February 28, 2023 Andrew Nelson The Draft Environmental Impact Report is under review that would increase the housing stock of the unincorporated community of San Quentin fivefold. Education Housing Partners and Eden Housing have proposed Oak Hill Apartments, an entirely...
The Registry Bay Area Real Estate February 27, 2023 Release of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) is a major milestone in the review process to bring affordable housing to vacant, state-owned land. On February 22, 2023, the State of...
Marin Independent Journal February 27, 2023 Richard Halstead A proposal to build 250 apartments on state land adjacent to San Quentin State Prison would result in no significant environmental impacts, according to an analysis of the project. The draft environmental...
North Bay Business Journal January 17, 2023 Richard Halstead Beginning next month, developers might be able to gain vested rights to build projects in some areas of Marin without having to worry about local planning review or zoning requirements. That...
The Mercury News December 16, 2022 Keri Brenner Nearly 43% of Marin school staffers cannot afford to rent a studio apartment in the county, according to a new report. “A single earner in a household would need to work for...
Marin County November 10, 2022 The County of Marin has agreed to support a project that will provide approximately 250 new homes for public school employees and members of its own county workforce on an unused parcel of state land...
North Bay Business Journal November 10, 2022 The Marin County Board of Supervisors has backed a plan to build approximately 250 new homes for public school employees and county workers on a vacant 8.5-acre site near San Quentin State Prison....
Marin Independent Journal September 18, 2022 Giuseppe Ricapito Belvedere hopes to solicit public review of the city’s draft housing element over the next month and potentially find more private property owners who might wish to build in-law apartments. City officials...
Marin Independent Journal September 13, 2022 Richard Halstead A joint powers agreement will be formed to finance and oversee an affordable housing planned near San Quentin State Prison. The county, the Marin County Office of Education and a nonprofit public...