3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (772+ words) A housing development in the works for years in Point Reyes Station is about to begin a sprint to the finish line. The project will convert the former Coast Guard campus into 54 affordable residences. In June, it secured the last…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (961+ words) Three developers are vying to partner with San Rafael to turn a planned shelter for homeless people into a long-term affordable housing complex. The proposals for the 2.5-acre site at 350 Merrydale Road were publicly aired for the first time last…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (207+ words) Marin Independent Journal Special film screenings coming up in Marin • “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” the acclaimed 2018 documentary about Fred Rogers and his beloved children’s television show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” will be shown at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Civic…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (946+ words) Marin County officials are reassessing the feasibility of a workforce housing project planned on state land near San Quentin prison because of escalating cost projections. The project is being developed by the Marin County Public Financing Authority — an agency formed…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (654+ words) A San Francisco developer is proposing a seven-story, 285-apartment building in downtown San Rafael. The pre-application submitted this month proposes to raze the United Markets grocery store at 515 Third St. and replace it. The site is east of Highway 101 and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (653+ words) The Sausalito ballot Measure X for revised zoning standards on the November ballot would appear to open the city to unfettered development. I worry it will transfer the power of voters to a simple majority of the City Council. I…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (292+ words) This weekend’s 43rd Palo Alto Festival of the Arts will turn University Avenue into an open-air gallery with 250 fine-arts booths plus an Italian chalk art zone, a children’s Chalk-A-Lot area and — new this year — live demonstrations of oil painting, calligraphy and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (287+ words) Marin Independent Journal San Francisco waterfront to become theater show about 1800s Gold Rush Buried beneath the streets of San Francisco is a legion of wooden ships, abandoned long ago by Gold Rush fortune-seekers, and eventually paved over. A new theatrical…...