THE BAY AREA | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed

[gillynova]

Tasman East, Santa Clara’s newest neighborhood, could add thousands of homes near the Related Santa Clara development - Silicon Valley Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

If San Jose can't build anything then our little suburb to the north, Santa Clara, is ready to go with 2 massive projects. This one, referred to as Tasman East, will come with 4,500 housing units & two twenty-story towers. At least they're getting serious about more housing.

California Regional Housing Needs Assessment, RHNA, has found that the entire nine-county Bay Area will have to zone for at least 441,176 new housing units between 2023 and 2031.





Information found thanks to "siliconvalleyjoe"

[homebucket]

^ Great project. There needs to be 5-10 of these surrounding every Caltrain station in the South Bay.

[Busy Bee]

Yep

[RST500]

Downtown’s tallest building: Developer pitches 25-story Berkeley high-rise
The long-planned complex at 2190 Shattuck Ave. would grow to 260 feet, with 326 apartments, under a proposed redesign.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02...rties-shattuck

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Public Recreation Park Proposed At 410 Airport Boulevard In Burlingame, San Mateo



BY: PALAK JAPLOT 5:00 AM ON FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The application for Environmental Scoping, Commercial Design Review, Conditional Use Permit, and Parking Variance has been filed for a project at 410 Airport Boulevard in Burlingame, San Mateo. The project proposal includes the construction of a new public recreation park and education center.

California State Lands Commission is the property owner. SERA Architects Inc is the architect responsible for the design concepts. H.T. Harvey & Associates is the landscape architect. The Sphere Institute is the project applicant.



Named The Park at 410, the nature park will span on a property site measuring 10.23 acres. The project site is currently vacant, with an existing FAA tower, an unimproved portion of the Bay Trail along the bay side, and two substandard parking surfaces. The park will sit adjacent to office buildings, a restaurant, Sanchez Channel, and San Francisco Bay. The recreation park will include an education center building spanning an area of 8,564 square feet.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/02/public-r...san-mateo.html

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Nice affordable housing project here with funding provided by Meta.

Increased Funding Approved For Teacher Housing At 231 Grant Avenue, Palo Alto



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:00 AM ON FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Approved funding has been secured by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for the construction of 231 Grant Avenue, Palo Alto. Once finished in 2024, the project will offer housing for over a hundred teachers to work in San Mateo County and Santa Clara County. Mercy Housing and Abode Communities are responsible for the project.

The proposal would demolish the existing 6,800-square-foot office building and would construct a new four-story facility, totaling approximately 112,000 square feet. The buildings would be developed with 110 affordable rental units.

Approximately 2,000 square feet of community space, including a lounge, activity room, and laundry, would be provided for resident-use and management offices and about 1,200 square of commercial space. Parking will be included for 112 vehicles and 134 bicycles.

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The project is being developed in collaboration with the County of Santa Clara, Meta, formerly Facebook, the City of Palo Alto, and engaged school districts in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. According to the project website, 231 Grant “is intended for Santa Clara and San Mateo County teachers, school employees, and their families. The selection criteria, application process, and other resident policies are not yet determined.”

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In late 2019, Meta gave $25 million for the project as part of a publicity effort supporting affordable housing in the Bay Area. The firm established in December of 2020 the Community Housing Fund, setting aside $150 million for affordable housing projects in the Bay Area, hoping to solve a crisis exacerbated by the confluence of Silicon Valley’s astronomical growth in the 21st Century, which worsened the housing supply shortage.

In September of 2021, Meta donated another $38 million for four affordable housing projects across the Bay Area, as reported by Troy Wolverton for the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/02/increase...palo-alto.html

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New Renderings For The Rise, A Multi-Billion Dollar Masterplan By Apple Park In Cupertino


BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON MARCH 29, 2022

Sand Hill Property Company has released detailed renderings for the approved 50-acre redevelopment of Vallco Mall in Cupertino, Santa Clara County. Located across the I-280 freeway from Apple Park, ‘The Rise’ will offer a more public mixed-use site with open space, shops, offices, and over two thousand homes. The futuristic proposal features design by the internationally acclaimed Rafael Viñoly Architects.



The Rise was one of the first projects approved using Senate Bill 35 to streamline the ministerial review process. At full buildout, it would reshape the central Cupertino property with over seven million square feet of gross floor area. The mixed-use plans include approximately 2,400 residential units, 1.973 million square feet of commercial space for offices or laboratories, 429,000 square feet for retail or dining entertainment, and 40 acres of open space. A portion of that open space will be from the 29-acre green roof, surpassing Chicago’s Millennium Park to be the largest green roof in the world.

The parking capacity for cars and bicycles has not been specified. However, the project references the 15-minute city concept, imagined as an urban planning philosophy that forgoes the need for vehicles for daily activities.



Rafael Viñoly Architects is responsible for the design. The firm is internationally recognized for designing 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan and the Walkie Talkie tower at 20 Fenchurch Street, London. The firm has completed a few medical projects in the Bay Area, including the 2006-built Stanford Hospital, the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building in San Francisco, and UCSF’s Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building within the Parnassus Heights Campus.

Charged with designing a town center that reflects the city’s identity as a nexus of innovation and cutting-edge technology, The Rise reflects this with seven grand cantilevered office towers, blooming out from the roof gardens on central pillars to provide views across the South Bay.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/03/new-rend...cupertino.html

[deanstirrat]

Project consists of two apartment buildings ranging between three to five stories in height and including a total of 184 units. The project includes the extension of Oak Street and Water Street North, a new Class I multi-use path along the Petaluma River. To be completed this year

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Google will finish vast revamp of Hangar One in Mountain View by 2025
Site could become hub for tech, space and aviation breakthroughs



By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. | UPDATED: May 6, 2022 at 2:34 p.m.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google aims to complete a mammoth revamp of the iconic Hangar One in Mountain View by 2025. NASA officials said Friday they hope the Moffett Field site can become a hub for tech, space and aviation breakthroughs in the future.

The tech titan entered a 60-year lease with NASA in 2015 to take over the space. The company’s Planetary Ventures unit began a vast restoration this week.

When asked by this news organization whether Google and the nation’s space and aviation agency could capture plenty of synergies when the tech titan moves into Hangar One, Eugene Tu, director of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, replied, “Absolutely.”

“Google is about data and information and that is what we are about as well, particularly scientific and engineering data and information,” Tu said in the interview.

The NASA official sees plenty of ways that Google and the space agency can collaborate closely once the search giant establishes its Planetary Ventures unit inside Hangar One after the project is complete.

“We are collecting so much information from our space and science satellites trying to understand what is happening with our home planet and what is happening to it in the future,” Tu said. “A lot of the technologies and capabilities that Google develops, especially in machine learning (and) data mining will be synergistic and very helpful.”

The mammoth construction project itself, which is being managed by commercial real estate firm CBRE on behalf of Google and Planetary Ventures, is expected to start adding the cladding — the exterior of the hangar — sometime in 2023, said Alex Saleh, a CBRE executive.

“Construction is going to finish in 2025,” Saleh told this news organization.

A years-long effort led by Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat whose district encompasses parts of Santa Clara County and San Mateo County, including Mountain View, overcame the one-time preference on the part of both NASA and the U.S. Navy to demolish the landmark due to the expense of a full-fledged rescue of the hangar, which was born in 1932 as a Depression-era construction project that employed hundreds and housed the USS Macon airship.

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The hangar is so vast and high that the Statue of Liberty, if removed from its pedestal, could stand upright inside Hangar One. San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, if laid on its side, could be tucked away inside the cavernous space.

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/0...e-real-estate/

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Some vague renderings of the Hangar One Moffett Field project.

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.

In celebration of the renovation project, Congresswoman Anna G Eschoo shared a press release stating that “Our community has worked for years to save this historic landmark that defines the landscape of the South Bay region and Silicon Valley.” The release states that Google’s renovations will closely replicate the original visual characteristics.

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.

According to the National Park Service biography on Number One, “the hangar is constructed on an amazing network of steel girders sheathed with galvanized steel. It rests firmly upon a reinforced pad anchored to concrete pilings. The floor covers eight acres and can accommodate 10 football fields.”



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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.





In the initial press release by NASA in 2014 announcing the deal with Planetary Ventures, the firm estimated it would invest $200 million for improvements, including refurbishment of Hangars One, Two, and Three, operating the Moffett Federal Airfield, and it would create an educational facility for the public to engage with the site’s legacy and role in Silicon Valley.

Phase one of the renovations, including recoating and structural upgrades, is expected to take two years. The overall timeline for full completion has not yet been published.

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

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Pretty sweet looking campus.

The highlights:
- 4,000 employees
- First time Google has developed its own campus
- 1.1M sq ft over two office buildings
- 1,000 person events center
- Four-building lodging complex with 220 rooms to accommodate short-term stays for employees
- Designed by world-renowned architects Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio
- The insides of the buildings feature a combination of wide-open spaces with 30 courtyards or atriums, as well as small rooms for break out sessions
- Allows plentiful natural light into the buildings
- Uses about 50,000 solar panels to resemble dragon scales on its canopy rooftop, with geothermal piles beneath the office complex to create an energy arrangement that can cool the vast structure in hot weather and heat it during cold weather
- Local residents will also be able to benefit from the new Bay View campus in multiple ways. Among them: public access to expanded trails with panoramic views of the Bay, improved bike connections to the Stevens Creek and Bay trails
- The campus also includes 17.3 acres of high-value natural areas, including wet meadows, woodlands, and marshes, that contribute to Google’s broader efforts to reestablish missing essential habitats in the Bay Area.

Google opens futuristic Mountain View campus where 4,000 will work
New complex will be a green campus powered by thousands of dragon scale solar panels

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/0...-estate-covid/

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New public open space and trails under construction.

Effort to open the Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument, one of Obama’s last gifts to California, is underway
Silas Valentino, SFGATE
May 20, 2022

Rounding a curve within a redwood grove along a neatly carved forest path, Katy Poniatowski points out the section ahead with a sense of earnest pride.

“I helped dig that out,” she said, noting how she was one of a crew of 10 volunteers who used shovels and hoes to clear out the zigzagging pathway in December 2021.

The trail is part of the first loop that’s in development in this northern section of the Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument, one of the newer additions of public land to the region that will become available for recreation later this year.

Poniatowski is one of the hundreds of volunteers who’ve come out to build a network of trails that will serve hikers, bikers and horseback riders. The plan is to create multiple trail loops, with varying difficulties, that cover 19 miles across the national monument.

Located outside Davenport where the Santa Cruz Mountains collapse into the sea, the national monument occupies land that was once inhabited by Indigenous peoples known as the Cotoni (pronounced sho-toe-knee). The area was repurposed for agriculture during the 19th century, and relics of its cattle history remain across the bucolic landscape.

Following decades of work from conservationists to preserve the property for open space, 5,800 acres of the coast-facing property are owned by the Bureau of Land Management. The land became a national monument in January 2017 just as Barack Obama’s administration was on its way out the door.

“We tried to strike a balance between protection and public access,” said Ben Blom, spokesperson for the BLM. “We broke the property into four different zones, and two will have trail development. We wanted to create blocks set aside for wildlife and for traditional cultural practices for the Amah Mutsun tribe.”

Three cattle grazing programs remain on the property, and the active grazing program is considered an attribute for protection from wildfires. “When we had the CZU Lightning Complex fires, it showed how important the grazing program was for providing a buffer and for protecting the town of Davenport,” Blom said.

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The crews expect to have the first loop, a 9-mile section north of Davenport, available for public use by the end of summer.

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/articl...P-CP-Spotlight

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The scenery from the new national monument.











https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/20...onal-monument/
https://sempervirens.org/take-action...onal-monument/

[gillynova]

Beautiful new building for Google! Glad it's finally open

[homebucket]

Approved.

San Mateo Planning Commission Recommends Approval For 500 East 3rd Avenue



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:00 AM ON MAY 30, 2022

The San Mateo Planning Commission has voted to recommend approval of expanded plans for Block 21, a mixed-use development at 500 East 3rd Street. The proposal will replace low-density buildings with six stories of offices and over a hundred housing units. Windy Hill Property Ventures is responsible for the project.

The project has completed the environmental review process through CEQA.

The 74-foot tall structure will yield 451,080 square feet, with 268,938 square feet of rentable area and 182,146 square feet for the 402-car garage in two basement levels. Within the garage, 346 spaces will be for office employees, and 56 will be for residents. There will be 179,560 square feet for offices and 89,380 square feet for housing. Additional parking will be included for 129 bicycles.

The project was also a beneficiary of the 50% State Density Bonus law, with the revised project adding additional units on top of the base zoning of 76 units. Of the 111 total apartments to be built, there will be 53 studios and 58 one-bedroom units. Twelve of the units will be devoted to affordable, very low-income housing.

Office employees will have access to open space with balconies on the third and fourth floors and a central atrium on the second floor, open to the sky with an intermediate balcony on level three. Residents will have a landscaped rooftop deck with amenities and furniture, with 57 private balconies for half of the project’s units. The building will also include an open plaza along the street and additional bicycle marking along South Claremont Street.

Arizona-based Arc Tec is responsible for the design, which uses glass and solid walls to express various volumes with an articulated facade and a series of setbacks. Facade materials will include glass fiber reinforced concrete, aluminum panels, and stucco. KLA is the landscape architect, and BKF is the civil engineer.

Demolition will be required for all existing structures across 1.5 acres and 11 parcels. The area is currently occupied by a gas station, food services, retail, three single-family homes, and a two-story four-unit apartment building.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/05/san-mate...rd-avenue.html

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Council approves 7-story housing at Ashby, North Berkeley BART stations
The projects could bring more than 5,400 new residents to the city and result in 465 new jobs, according to staff.

Berkeley officials unanimously approved zoning guidelines early Friday morning for housing projects at two of the city’s BART stations, setting the height limit at seven stories and the unit count at 2,400.

The buildings, at the Ashby and North Berkeley stations, could ultimately rise up to 12 stories, with 3,600 units, if developers take advantage of a state law called the density bonus that allows for extra height when affordable housing is part of the equation. Construction could begin by 2025 and be complete by 2030.

“Seven stories is a huge win for housing in Berkeley,” said Mayor Jesse Arreguín shortly before the 12:25 a.m. vote. “I think we can do this in a way that’s thoughtful, that’s contextual and that reflects the city’s vision and priorities.”

Staff estimated that seven-story projects would bring more than 5,400 new residents to the city and result in 465 new jobs amid 125,000 square feet of commercial space, according to Thursday’s staff report. Twelve-story buildings could add 8,100 new residents, staff wrote, which would represent nearly half of the 18,000-person population increase Berkeley is projected to see by 2040.

Developer selection and actual project designs will come down the line.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/06...-berkeley-bart

[unpermitted_variance]

Potential Tallest Tower In Berkeley Proposed For 1974 Shattuck Avenue
https://sfyimby.com/2022/06/potentia...ck-avenue.html



A pre-application has been filed for a 26-story residential tower at 1974 Shattuck Avenue. If approved, it would become the tallest building in Downtown Berkeley, and among the tallest residential buildings in Alameda County. The proposal aims to produce 297 new homes and a rooftop restaurant with views across the Bay Area. The application is led by NX Ventures, Rhoades Planning Group, and Trachtenberg Architects.

The 277-foot tall structure will create 207 studios, 23 one-bedrooms, and 66 two bedrooms. The project will include 11,850 square feet of commercial retail, with 6,800 square feet at ground level, and the rooftop restaurant with 5,000 square feet. The building will consist of residential amenities, including outdoor terraces and a podium-capping terrace.



Demolition will be required for the structures at 1974, 1984, and 1998 Shattuck Avenue, containing a Mcdonald’s, Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative, Spats bar, and Turkish Kitchen. The owner of both NX Ventures and Rhoades Planning Group, Nathan George and Mark Rhoades, respectively, are the joint business owners of Spats and plan to revamp the pub in the new tower.

An estimated cost has not been established, though construction is projected to start by the Fall of 2023 and finish in late 2024 or early 2025. The building is aiming to use Senate Bill 330 to streamline the approval process and the State Density Bonus program to increase the project capacity and receive zoning waivers.

Another impressive new project in Berkeley. I've been pleasantly surprised by their downtown development boom - lots of high-density projects with very high quality architecture, and this one looks to be no exception. Hopefully we get some more renders soon.

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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance

Another impressive new project in Berkeley. I've been pleasantly surprised by their downtown development boom - lots of high-density projects with very high quality architecture, and this one looks to be no exception. Hopefully we get some more renders soon.

Nice proposal. Hopefully this, and the 260-foot tower at 2190 Shattuck and the 253-foot tower at 2128 Oxford Street will all get approved and built as well.

[CharlesCO]

Yes please! Now if only we could get the project at the site of the Shattuck Hotel moving along. That thing is an eyesore at street level.

[unpermitted_variance]

Expanded Plans For 2128 Oxford Street In Downtown Berkeley
BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON JUNE 10, 2022

https://sfyimby.com/2022/06/expanded...-berkeley.html



Increased plans have been filed for The Hub, the mixed-use tower at 2128 Oxford Street in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The application has nearly doubled in residential capacity while the height has been raised from 17 to 25 floors tall. On top, a rooftop bar and restaurant will offer commanding views of the surrounding region and, potentially, two more similarly-tall buildings. Core Spaces is the developer.

The roughly 260-foot tall structure will yield over 665,000 square feet, with 650,500 square feet for residential use and 15,800 square feet for commercial retail. Inside, the building will feature 551 apartments, of which 49 would be restricted as affordable housing.




The application makes use of Senate Bill 330 for a streamlined approval process. Developers hope to qualify for the State Density Bonus program, which requires affordable housing in exchange for benefitial zoning waivers that increase residential capacity.

Rhoades Planning Group is managing land use, Site Design Group is responsible for the landscape architecture, and Kimley-Horn is consulting on civil engineering.

Old rendering:

Major increase to height and mass for another one of the Downtown Berkeley tower proposals. I can see this one catching NIMBY flak over the sheer scale of the proposal, but it's an appropriate density for a site right next to UC Berkeley and one block from BART.

The architecture looks acceptable; I like the color, the curved corner windows (assuming those stay in the new renderings when they are released), and the ground-level treatment. The proposed pedestrian plane looks like it would do an excellent job at promoting an active streetscape, and it replaces a solid stretch of many small shops with a similar arrangement.