It's good to see all those community outreach meetings paid off. Someone at city hall knows how to seduce the NIMBYs.
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Here is something I found while aimlessly surfing the net.
MILPITAS SQUARE Barber Lane at Bellew Mixed use 900 dwelling units in multiple buildings 175, 000 sq. ft. commercial click here for bigger image and more info:http://www.vmwp.com/projects/milpitas-midrise.php http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/_image...tas_square.jpg Nearby: LANDMARK TOWERS 600 Barber Lane 18 story tower Mixed use 375 dwelling units Retail - 3 floors 100,465 sq.ft. Office - 1 floor 36,530 sq.ft. http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/govern...esidential.asp http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/_image...s_landmark.jpg |
I just had lunch there today (at a very good Vegan place named Loving Hut). For those not familiar with the place, it is a true cross between a strip mall and a bustling DT area. It is a large broad “U” of buildings with outdoor sidewalks and a huge parking lot in the center. There are roughly 50 Asian restaurants and maybe 30 other shops around the U. At lunch M-F and most of the day on weekends, it is absolutely packed with workers, families and whoever. Parking is unavailable for blocks and pedestrian traffic on the walkways is as dense as lower NY. Amazing for a strip-mall.
What it looks like they are proposing is another Rivermark (just down the road in Santa Clara). This strikes me as about a break-even. It’s in the middle of a low-rise, low-density office area, with wide empty avenues and freeways. They plan to put up higher density housing and less retail, but there is still no way to get anywhere without a car. My first thought is that it creates a “place” but it is a crowded, gate-controlled place with parking difficult to find and no mass transit that goes to anywhere you would want to go to. A little island not connected to anything. But it does create some housing in an area where housing is either old or non-existant. |
Even in this economy, it seems redeveloping shopping centers is all the rage in the South Bay
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^Interesting virtual tour. I assumed by the article that they were talking about housing over retail, but it looks like it's five to six story housing on one end and retail on the other. Looks like mostly underground parking, which surprises me.
That shopping center has been in need of a major makeover for a loooong time. |
Brisbane Baylands Info
Discovered a website dedicated to the revitalization of the brisbane baylands. Not much on it except a video showing some images of the proposed developments. http://brisbanebaylands.com/ For a visual reference, here is an image i picked off from http://brisbaneca.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yB7lCwob8X...s%2Baerial.bmp |
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I was looking at Google maps to check out those Milpitas proposals and was floored by the amount of parking lot that exists between Tasman and 237 to the west of 880. The traffic in that area must be insane around 5:00pm. |
from:http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/green...-69780457.html
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Peanut Gallery: yeah, that was sort of my point. The only good news re traffic is that a lot of the buildings are still not at capacity. But traffic is bad most of the time, even with the 880 widening largely complete.
I suppose that ideally you would put up housing nearer to the Great Mall and the housing already around it. Then you are creating the beginning of some density. Otherwise, it's just kind of another "suburban industrial park" with a "suburban" residential tower way over across the parking lots. |
San Antonio Center virtual tour
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This should help you get oriented. The mid-rise towers should be placed at point 27, closer to The CalTrain Station, away from El Camino Real,but not quite up to California Drive.
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^It'll be interesting to see if they attempt to redevelop the rest of the center if the first portion sells well. That Walmart building is pretty old and undersized as well (even for a traditional Walmart, let alone a supercenter). This whole site is what, probably about a 7-10 minute walk to San Antonio Caltrain? The Target building across Showers is pretty old and decrepit too, though I think that's owned by someone else.
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^I was wondering about that too. Is this phase 1, then they'll redevelop the rest, or...? I haven't been in that area in quite awhile, so I may be way off. But I vaguely recall that these are actually two separate shopping centers that are built right into each other. Is that right, or am I "mis-remembering?"
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This story bums me out. I was looking forward to seeing how this structure would turn out.
UC Berkeley must scale back on downtown museum Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Read Here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MN721AM4LA.DTL |
Pretty major development, and thankfully built on the VTA light rail line.
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At six stories, these would probably be pretty easy to see from the new Niners stadium. Yahoo might get some free visibility if both projects come together.
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Are we talking "Yahoo Stadium at Santa Clara; Home of the San Francisco 49ers"? A lot to put on a digital sign. Maybe the phrases alternate.
Is this the old 3Com site or next to it? I don't know that you will be able to see 6 story buildings across Great America but maybe. Sounds a bit like a negotiating ploy to get some tax breaks from Sunnyvale. |
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