had some time this evening to wander around downtown Redwood City...
starting at the familiar view from the east-side Caltrain platform, looking at Box and the other, newer office building
slightly different angle. on the ground floor of Box facing the little plaza on the right in the pic is a wine bar (not really visible). on the left you can barely see that there is still one more smallish surface parking lot desperately needing filling
for those not familiar with RWC, on the west side of the station one encounters the back wall of a large stripmall with a Safeway, called 'Sequoia Station'. but there is a passageway through, and if you walk through its parking lot toward the south, you'll get to Franklin St, where the third phase of housing projects is going up. these also back up to the tracks
the street is being worked on
a shot just show the relationship of this new housing to Box
a block further west, El Camino parallels Franklin, and a large project looks to be finishing up there. looking toward Franklin from El Camino
the next large lot to the south on El Camino appears to be the next one up
and they are just getting started.
a couple blocks further down...
heading back over to the east side, there are a few at-grade rail crossings
Broadway is the 'main' drag in RWC, but Main St itself has a fairly lively stretch of a couple blocks as a side branch, and on it is
this project
curving over onto Broadway, the most prominent u/c building has to be
2075 Broadway
across the street you can see some of the outdoor restaurant seating that lines a stretch of that block
we've almost come full circle, looking from Broadway down a little pedestrian street back at Box
oh heck, let's walk to the end of it, it looks inviting
again with this building?
looking back toward Broadway with the previously-mentioned smallish parking lot on the left
quick detour to look at random other things that have gone up in the surrounding blocks
between these two, they have done a nice job of thinking about pedestrians in shortening what used to be a wide crossing on a street whose light traffic didnt need all that space (in the background is the county
Regional Operations Center)
in the 5 mins or so that I was there, this was the only car that used this street
back at the train station, ready to go home