MOUNTAIN VIEW | Moffett Field Development

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Going to use this thread as a catch all for Moffett Field related developments, discussion, updates, and photos. As of right now we currently have the Hangar One renovation project and the Berkeley Space Center as part of the NASA Ames Research Center.

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Google Starts Renovation For Hangar One In Moffett Field, Mountain View



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON MAY 12, 2022

Google has started work on renovating one of the largest freestanding structures in the world, Hangar One in Moffett Field, Mountain View, Santa Clara County. Crews will restore the 1933-built air hangar for Google’s Planetary Ventures unit for technological research and testing. The initial phase will include recoating, which will take around two years.

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Hangar One was built in 1933 during the Great Depression as part of Admiral William A. Moffett’s vision for Naval Aviation. The mid-century design, shaped like an elongated dome, is 198 feet tall, 308 feet wide, 1,133 feet long, or around a fifth of a mile long. Its interior covers eight acres, enough to contain the Salesforce Park with 2.6 acres to spare.

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NASA took control of the site from the Navy in 1994. In 2003, toxins from the hangar’s exterior panels were discovered. The US Navy removed these panels in 2011 and cleaned up toxic materials, leaving NASA in charge of reskinning. By 2014, Google started a 60-year lease for the 1,000-acre Moffett Field Site for $1.6 billion, including repurposing the three existing airship hangers into laboratories. The space is expected to help Google’s Planetary Ventures unit study robots, rovers, drones, balloons, and other technology. Still, Google remains vague about the details of why Number One will be used.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/05/google-s...tain-view.html

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https://sfyimby.com/2022/05/google-s...tain-view.html

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UC Berkeley Announces $2 Billion Space Center At NASA Ames Research Center



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON OCTOBER 17, 2023

New plans have been revealed for a $2 billion research center run by UC Berkeley at the NASA Ames Center in Mountain View, Santa Clara County. The Berkeley Space Center, as it will be called, will reshape 36 acres on the sprawling Ames Research Center, providing a hub for future companies to collaborate with the school and NASA scientists & engineers to improve technology for aviation, space exploration, and how people live and work in space.

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San Francisco-based SKS Partners is the developer. The project is expected to create 1.4 million square feet of gross floor area for research, housing, parking, and some retail across 11 structures. The master plan has been designed by HOK and Field Operations. Future students will have access to classrooms, state-of-the-art research centers, and proximity to several of the Ames’ major facilities. CBRE will be assisting with the project team.

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The school’s press release shared that, “in return for its investment and partnership, UC Berkeley will receive a portion of the revenues that the real estate development is projected to generate. While market-based returns are always subject to change, the joint venture conservatively estimates that the research hub will receive revenues more than sufficient to ensure that Berkeley Space Center is self-sustaining, as well as provide new financial support to the core campus, its departments and colleges, and faculty and students.”

Construction is expected to start as early as 2026, with move-ins to the first structure by 2027. The project will be subject to review for CEQA and NEPA.

https://sfyimby.com/2023/10/uc-berke...ch-center.html

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https://sfyimby.com/2023/10/uc-berke...ch-center.html

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