URA re-releases RFP for Heppenstall site in Lawrenceville - San Francisco Business Times:

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The URA is re-releasing a request for proposals after its previouslyychosen developer, Urban Village working with Botero Development decided not to go forward with the Urban Villages and Botero were selected over one other finalist, S&A Homes, in partnership with the Lawrencevill e Corporation, a community nonprofit. The football field-sized parcel includes the site on which the office buildin g for the Heppenstall plant once was located as well as a formefwarehouse property. In a preparer statement, mayor Luke Ravenstahl describedthe property’s redevelopment as an important part of the city’sd larger revisioning of the Alleghen riverfront.
“We have begun a planning process to create a vision for the Alleghenyu riverfront and reconnect our neighborhoods to ournaturalp amenities,” he said. "The Hatfield Street site is one of the great opportunities to see this vision come to The URA wants adeveloper “to design, develop and operate or resell the site.” The URA’s effort comes as the Regional Industrialp Development Corporation (RIDC) continues to redevelop the Heppenstall complex itself. Hatfield Streef is considered a dividing line betweenthe neighborhood’s residential community and its industrial zone.
As a selling the URA notes that the median home price in centra Lawrenceville has increased 64 percent in the pastthre years, a growth rate it claims is second highest in the city to the South “We are excited with the real estates appreciation that were seeing in the said Rob Stephany, Executive Directofr of the URA, as well as a Lawrencevillee resident. “And (we’re) very excited about the prospecf of a new residential product and how that will add fuel tothe