Experience
One Rincon Hill, San Francisco
Obtained the land use entitlements for our client Urban West Associates of San Diego to construct two high-rise residential towers atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill, one of 59 stories and the other of 47 stories, totaling 709 condominiums and townhouses. Our representation included negotiating a General Plan amendment and rezoning for the entire Rincon Hill area, obtaining a height limit increase from 200 feet to 550 feet, obtaining permits to demolish a historic structure on the site, negotiating a feasible impact fee package and the formation of a Mello-Roos community facilities district to finance those fees.
655 Folsom – Forton Fund
Provided land use advice for a residential project in San Francisco.
Landbank Corporate Campus, Sunnyvale
Land use entitlements and transactions related to a 750,000 sq. ft. corporate campus development in Sunnyvale, California.
National Real Estate Advisors/Emerald Fund: 100 and 150 Van Ness Avenue
Representing an affiliate of a national construction trades pension fund in obtaining land use approvals to convert an obsolete San Francisco office building obtained in foreclosure to 400 rental apartments and construction next of an additional 420 units in a new building next door. After building permits were issued, we successfully defeated an appeal of a construction permit filed by an adjoining property owner.
Fisher Vineyards
On behalf of our client, Fisher Vineyards, we prevailed upon the City of Calistoga to abandon an attempt to bring certain vineyard land from the unincorporated County into the City's sphere of influence, thus preventing the City from annexing that land into the city and preserving the viability of the land for agricultural purposes.
1150 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco
Assisted AvalonBay Communities in obtaining land use entitlements for a mixed-use project including 173 residential units and a grocery store. The project required a rezoning of the site and negotiation of an infrastructure "in-kind" agreement allowing the development to construct needed on-site infrastructure improvements in lieu of paying impact fees.
Point Molate Tribal Resort and Casino
Represent Upstream Point Molate LLC, the developer of a billion-dollar Indian tribal resort development in the City of Richmond proposing to include hotels, casinos, performance facilities, a shopping center, residential development and tribal facilities on a former Naval Fuel Depot situated along San Francisco Bay. The Final Environmental Impact Report was certified by the City of Richmond in 2011.
San Francisco Ferry Building
Represented the developer in development agreement, ground lease and entitlements for the San Francisco Ferry Building, an $80 million federal historic tax credit renovation project under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). We negotiated a complicated transaction with the Port of San Francisco, including a ground lease and development agreement, and obtained myriad entitlements for the project from the City of San Francisco, the State Lands Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service. We also negotiated several complicated lease buyouts and handled a proposed condemnation proceeding.
The Geysers, Lake and Sonoma Counties
Representing Calpine Corporation in connection with environmental, permitting and land use issues associated with its 725-megawatt Geysers geothermal facilities including federal lease and license renewals under NEPA, and County land use/permitting proceedings under CEQA in Lake and Sonoma Counties. We also developed environmental and emergency response actions relating to wildfires.
428 Alice Street / Jack London Square, Oakland
74 New Montgomery Associates Condo Project
Rincon Park Restaurants, San Francisco
San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum
Represented the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum in land acquisition and development agreements with the Redevelopment Agency and in preparing and negotiating agreements with design professionals and contractors for a new museum designed by Daniel Libeskind.
The Gas Light Building, San Francisco
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