Photo credit: Mark Aronoff

Burbank Housing is a breaking ground on a 65-unit apartment project in Windsor off Old Redwood Highway. The site used to be the home of First Class Kennel. The Press Democrat has a meaty article on the project.

Windsor Redwoods’ site before clearing and grading:

If wanna go view the property, find it on Google Maps here:

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Burbank has a number of projects in predevelopment.

Two weeks ago, we mentioned we were almost done with a second project. Well, we are now done. We updated a Healdsburg single story with hardwood floors, landscaped yard, and kitchen with new cabinets, granite counters, and appliances. It was a fun project and it’s going on the market today. It is near Healdsburg High at 307 Monte Vista Ave (Google Maps). You find more info on its site.

We wrote about Foss Creek Court back in July 2009 when all we knew was it was a rental housing project located at 40-62 West Grant. Now we know a bit more about the project, but first photos:

Jan 2010:

Oct 2009:

As you can see, Eden Housing is building the whole project at once with no phasing. The buildings in the above photos consist of town homes and flats. Foss Creek Court’s project page says they are going to rent the units to households making 30-50% of area median income, which is roughly $23k-$39k in Sonoma County.

Project details:

(14) one-bed units
(30) two-bed units
(20) three-bed units
(64) total units

Located at 40-62 West Grant in Healdsburg, CA:

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Who is Eden Housing? They develop and manage affordable housing communities all over the Bay Area, plus one in Lodi, CA. Foss Creek Court is their fifth project in Sonoma County. They have all the projects they’re currently working on listed here.

Know of a project in Sonoma County we should be following? Shoot us an email.

We here at GreenVine have been busy working on two of our own projects. One of them is this 1947 home sitting on a 0.25 acre lot:

We think it is an ideal rental property. Kitchen has new cabinets, counters, and appliances. The lot includes a second nonconforming unit. It is located near Windsor’s Town Green (Google Maps). You can find more info on 8721 Windsor Rd at Redfin or Zillow. Update: 8721 Windsor Rd is sold.

More photos of 8721 Windsor Rd:

Our second project will be done in a couple weeks and we will be sure to blog about it here.

The countdown clock on h2 Hotel’s site says 193 days until opening. As you can see above, the third floor is up. Next up: The floor above the green wavy roof as seen in the sketch below.

Sketch by DB+P

Layout for standard rooms:

Sketch by DB+P

Find all our h2 Hotel coverage here.

Grant Street Village is a new housing development by Sonoma Family Homes in Healdsburg off West Grant Street. When finished it will consist of two, three, and four bedroom homes. You can find drawings, floorplans, and details for the different models here.

Here are some quick details on the different models pulled from their site:

Two bedroom models
Over 1500sf, 9ft ceilings, 2 ½ baths, and single car garages.
Lower level floorplan (click to enlarge):

Upper level floorplan:

Three bedroom models
Over 1500sf, 9ft ceilings, 2 ½ baths, and single car garages.
Lower level floorplan:

Upper level floorplan:

Four bedroom models
Over 1500sf, 9ft ceilings, 2 ½ baths, and single car garages.
Lower level floorplan:

Upper level floorplan:

Sonoma Family Homes was founded by Sarah O’Neel and her father Bob O’Neel a developer who has built over 10,000 homes in Sonoma County. Bob is also the father of Robert O’Neel a businessman hit hard by the housing downturn.

The second floor is up at H2 Hotel. At this rate, the third floor should be up by the end of October. You can find photos we posted of H2 Hotel a month ago here.

Last Thursday, Press Democrat reported Santa Rosa’s Planning Commission unanimously approved an In-N-Out Burger to be constructed at the northwest corner of Steele Lane and County Center Drive where King Buffet now sits just beyond the Shell gas station.

We are going to closely track the construction of this In-N-Out because we love In-N-Out and this is the first one to go up in Santa Rosa. You’ll be able to find all our Santa Rosa In-N-Out coverage here.

Santa Rosa’s planned In-N-Out location on Google Maps (At 2131 County Center Dr):

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The North Bay Business Journal had an article on Sonoma’s 52-home Las Palmas project a couple weeks ago that caught my eye. Why? Because Las Palmas is using pre-built kitchen and bathroom modules from a Hayward company called BuildPods. (Site is temporarily down. Bummer.)

Here is an article excerpt on the pre-built modules:

BuildPods uses an assembly-line approach to construct fully plumbed, wired, ducted and finished bathrooms and kitchens in modules up to 10 feet wide so they can be delivered by truck. At the job site, the modules can be lifted off the truck and placed on a given floor of the project with a telehandler-style forklift.

Modules designed for Las Palmas would be 9-foot-by-20-foot kitchen and 10-foot-by-17-foot bathroom-and-laundry units.

“We’re eliminating waste and all the trades having to go to the job site,” said Bill Rollinson, senior vice president of business development and marketing.

Modular construction can limit scheduling problems for subcontractors, such as materials not being delivered by the time they arrive, but the structure still needs to have all the infrastructure installed to match up with what’s installed in the modules.

For the right project, this seems like it could work quite well. I’m going to follow the Las Palmas project and see how the modules look when the houses are completed. The project plans to start construction in spring 2010, according to the North Bay Biz Journal.

I have an email in to Las Palmas developer Scott Johnson if he knows any other home developments in Sonoma County that have used pre-built modules.

Find Las Palmas project on Google Maps:

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The second floor is going up at Healdsburg’s h2 Hotel located on Healdsburg Avenue across from the soon to open wine bar lounge. The hotel, which plans to be completed by mid-2010, will have 36 guest rooms and 408sf of retail. They are using the same architects David Baker + Partners that did Hotel Healdsburg around the block. I’m not sure the developer/owner of h2 Hotel, maybe Terranomics Development?

Sketch by DB+P.

Rendering by DB+P.

View full slideshow at DB+P.

Find on Google Maps:

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