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Plans Revealed For 121 East Grand Avenue, South San Francisco



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON AUGUST 17, 2022

New plans have been revealed for a 17-story commercial tower at 121 East Grand Avenue in South San Francisco, San Mateo County. The SOM-designed project would rise above the city’s new Caltrain Station, expanding the East Side high-rise profile further south. San Diego-based Phase 3 Real Estate Partners is the project developer, operating through OCI San Fran, LLC.

In a letter to the city planning department, Phase 3 Real Estate Partners president Michael Gerrity describes the project as a “transit-oriented, and amenity-enhanced office & research development campus that embraces its location as the gateway from the new Caltrain station to the East of 101.”

The 295-foot tall office/R&D structure will yield around 938,270 square feet with 884,600 square feet of office area. Even though the project is across from the $100 million newly-open Caltrain Station and close to other public transit, parking will be included in two basement levels for 1,394 cars. Additional parking will be provided for 250 bicycles.

Skidmore Owings & Merrill is the project architect. The slick building will use various setbacks and terraces to produce a dynamic and varied project, even as the exterior is clad with just aluminum, glass, and concrete along the base. A dynamic oculus-punctured canopy will cover the entry at the corner of East Grand Avenue and Poletti Way.

The L-shaped building will create a triangular open space along East Grand Avenue. The triangular plot will become Confluence Plaza, a landscaped public amenity with opportunities for public art sculptures and murals. Mantle Landscape Architects will be responsible for the design.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/plans-re...francisco.html

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And the images:









https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/plans-re...francisco.html

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High-Rise Plans For 2274 Shattuck Avenue In Downtown Berkeley



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:00 AM ON AUGUST 17, 2022

New plans have been filed for a 17-story residential high-rise at 2274 Shattuck Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The project benefits from the State Density Bonus Program to create 239 homes above retail. Panoramic Interests is responsible for the application.

The Regal United Artists Theater was built between 1931 and 1932. The project was designed by Clifford Balch, Percy Eisen, and Albert Walker. The once grand auditorium was later sub-divided into seven separate screening rooms.

Demolition will be required for the existing theater at 2274 Shattuck Avenue, removing the large concrete structure along Bancroft Way while preserving the decorated facade along Shattuck Avenue.

The theater facade will be the entryway for the project’s retail space, with plans suggesting a cafe may occupy the space. Residents will be able to access the lobby through the cafe, as well as along Bancroft Way.

The 182-foot tall structure will yield around 209,900 square feet, with 204,270 square feet for housing and 1,500 square feet for ground-level retail. Parking will span 3,045 square feet, offering parking for four cars for commercial retail use. Unit sizes will vary with 48 studios, 49 two-bedrooms, 78 four-bedrooms, and 64 five-bedrooms.

Planning documents indicate the proposal will create around 24 units of affordable housing. By utilizing the State Density Bonus program, 2274 Shattuck Avenue will be able to receive waivers to increase the maximum building height, reduce the needed open space, and reduce setback requirements. Bicycle parking is also able to be reduced from 278 to 82 bikes.

Trachtenberg Architects, among the most prolific firms in the East Bay city’s development pipeline, is responsible for the design. The plan offers a straightforward design with an off-white and grey rainscreen panel-clad exterior and wood trellises adding decoration to the podium-capping deck and rooftop terrace.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/high-ris...-berkeley.html

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The location and a render:







https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/high-ris...-berkeley.html

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Crazy amount of parking on that South City tower, especially considering it's about as close to Caltrain as you can get. It's a shame that the whole biotech cluster at Oyster Point is built out as a car-dependent area; big mistake probably dating back to the late 70s.

The Berkeley proposal is unremarkable but solid. Glad the theater façade is being preserved.

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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance

Crazy amount of parking on that South City tower, especially considering it's about as close to Caltrain as you can get. It's a shame that the whole biotech cluster at Oyster Point is built out as a car-dependent area; big mistake probably dating back to the late 70s.

The Berkeley proposal is unremarkable but solid. Glad the theater façade is being preserved.

Yeah that amount of parking for that South City building is just sad. I wonder what it is about biotech that prefers autocentric suburban office park type offices. I think a number of the ones in SD are like that too right?

I think the Berkeley one might look ok depending on the quality of materials used. Also glad they are retaining the theatre facade. Limited parking is also a big plus, especially since it's only 2 blocks and under 5 min walk to the Downtown Berkeley BART station.

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The specs:

- 220 FT | 20 FLOORS
- 700 units (509 apartments and 191 senior assisted living))
- 201 of the units will be BMR
- 19,410 sq ft retail
- Parking for 613 cars and 352 bicycles

Related Secures $690 Million For 2300 Calle De Luna In Tasman East, Santa Clara

BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON AUGUST 19, 2022

Progress for the Tasman East Specific Plan has received some good news. Related California has secured $690 million in construction funding for 700 units at 2300 Calle De Luna, representing nearly a fifth of all units expected in the multi-developer project in Santa Clara. Foundation work is expected to start in the coming weeks.

J. Jennings Moss first reported the news for the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The funding will result in the construction of 2300 Calle De Luna, a two-structure project with 509 apartments and a 191-unit high-end senior rental building as part of Related’s Coterie senior living brand.

Moss reports that the funding was split between three sources. Otera Capital invested a $360 million loan for the market-rate housing, PNC Bank provided $130 million for senior housing, and Welltower Inc. invested $200 million.

2300 Calle De Luna will be 220 feet tall and contain 1.09 million square feet. Of that floor area, 557,700 square feet will be for the market-rate apartments, 186,500 square feet for the senior assisted living units, 43,950 square feet for communal amenity areas, and 19,410 square feet for retail. The 613-car garage will span 264,270 square feet. Additional parking will also be included for 352 bicycles.

Steinberg Hart is the architect of record and collaborative design architect with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The market-rate housing will rise from a metal-adorned podium with a curtainwall tower accented by sharp cantilevered balconies. The senior housing is clad with a solid veneer using pre-cast concrete panels and stone decorated with oversized windows.

Surface Design will be the landscape architect.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/related-...nta-clara.html

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And the renderings:







https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/related-...nta-clara.html

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Took some shots around Berkeley recently.

2590 Bancroft Way



2067 University Ave

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Love the shots Homebucket!

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New Renderings For El Cerrito Plaza Development On BART Station
BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:00 AM ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2022




New renderings have been published along with greater detail about the proposed mixed-use El Cerrito Plaza in Contra Costa County. The project could create as many as 800 homes, a park, and a potential new library on top of surface parking around the El Cerrito BART Station. Holliday Development and Related Companies are joint developers.

Full article:
https://sfyimby.com/2022/09/new-rend...t-station.html


I often wish the Bay Area could be more like the Vancouver metro and see towers popping up in the blocks around each rail station, instead of mid-rises like this plan. I would love for at least one slightly taller building to create a focal point; I love the affect that Macarthur Commons has had at that station. Unfortunately this seems to be the best we can get in the face of NIMBYism and a general fear of tall buildings.

At that though I would still be happy to see more densification of any sort around the El Cerrito BART stations. Sadly the big modular project at Del Norte BART has been sitting almost-finished with very little progress for the better part of a year.

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More growth coming for the Oyster Point skyline. It's quite impressive how much development has been happening in South City recently.

Plans For 100 East Grand Avenue, South San Francisco
BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2022



New plans will be reviewed today for two ten-story R&D buildings at 100 East Grand Avenue in South San Francisco, San Mateo County. The project will replace low-slung commercial structures with modern new life science offices, further expanding the city’s burgeoning biotech industry. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is the project applicant.





The project will span over 800,000 square feet, with 541,284 square feet between the two buildings and 261,810 for parking. Additional parking will be included for 155 bicycles. Building A will include 296,830 square feet, and Building B will have 244,460 square feet.
Parking will be included in an eight-story garage structure on the southern end of the building. The structure will span 261,810 square feet with a capacity for 780 cars. Incredibly, the large vehicular capacity is just below the city’s recommended parking capacity for 812 cars.

Full article: https://sfyimby.com/2022/09/plans-fo...francisco.html

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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance

More growth coming for the Oyster Point skyline. It's quite impressive how much development has been happening in South City recently.

Full article: https://sfyimby.com/2022/09/plans-fo...francisco.html

It does have a nice mini skyline forming. It's just in an unfortunate location, cut off by the freeway and the road network is a confusing mess. Very autocentric with large parking lots or parking structures, and not well connected to public transit. I'm guessing most of the employers have shuttles that run to and from the South City and San Bruno BART and Caltrain stations though.

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Agreed, the area is very poorly planned, although it is getting better, especially with the improvements being made to the Caltrain station. This particular project is very close to the Caltrain station so it has good transit access, although it isn't walkable to much else.

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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance

More growth coming for the Oyster Point skyline. It's quite impressive how much development has been happening in South City recently.

It's quite impressive how much development has been happening in everywhere *but* The City recently.

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Fremont has to be the dullest area as far as new projects and proposals go. Everyone else has at least something.

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Big transit-oriented complex pushes ahead in South San Francisco
City approvals clear pathway for new offices, shops, restaurants next to BART station



By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 16, 2022 at 5:35 a.m. | UPDATED: September 16, 2022 at 5:56 a.m.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — A huge mixed-use development in South San Francisco that’s perched next to a BART station is pushing ahead now that the transit-oriented project has landed final city approvals.

Southline, a project being developed by an alliance of Bay Area development firm Lane Partners and a real estate unit of Wall Street behemoth Goldman Sachs, would bring modern office and life science buildings to South San Francisco.

When completed, the project would consist of 2.8 million square feet of office, research and laboratory space at 30 Tanforan Ave. in South San Francisco and is slated to be built next to the San Bruno BART station.

Being located so close to San Bruno, the project required the approval of city leaders in both South San Francisco and San Bruno.



“We are excited to create a generational project that benefits two cities in such a positive way,” said Marcus Gilmour, a principal executive with Menlo Park-based Lane Partners.

Southline ultimately would consist of seven buildings when it’s fully developed, although the project is being built in phases.

The first phase would create two office and research buildings totaling a combined 650,000 square feet.

The alliance of Lane Partners and the Goldman Sachs unit reached a development agreement with South Sah Francisco city officials whereby the two companies would provide the municipality with $25 million in community benefits.

The project also features a central park called Southline Commons, Lane Partners said. The park will feature pedestrian paths, outdoor meeting and gathering spaces, dining areas, recreation and event spaces, a food truck corral, a beer garden, and electric-vehicle charging stations.

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/0...staurant-bart/

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Originally Posted by JManc

Fremont has to be the dullest area as far as new projects and proposals go. Everyone else has at least something.

Even their small neighbor Milpitas has nice projects

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The specs:
- 158 ft, 15 floors
- 214 units (22 of which are affordable)
- 18,320 sq ft for theater
- Bicycle parking

Renderings For 2113 Kittredge Street, Downtown Berkeley



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Renderings have been revealed for the 15-story adaptive reuse of the California Theater at 2113 Kittredge Street in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The project would create 214 homes and a new live theater. Gilbane Development Company is responsible for the application.

The application makes use of Senate Bill 330 to increase the residential capacity beyond local zoning. The building will include 22 affordable units for very-low-income residents, enabling a 50% density bonus. Of the 214 units, there will be 141 studios and 73 two bedrooms.

The 158-foot tall structure will yield 166,530 square feet, with 148,200 square feet for housing and 18,320 square feet for the theater. The theater will occupy the ground floor down to basement level two, with a small lounge on the second floor. Bicycle parking will be included in the basement.

Residential amenities will include a basement yoga room and gym, studio rooms on each floor, a 14th-floor indoor-outdoor fitness center and sports simulator room, and a 15th-floor entertainment deck with cabanas, two hot tubs, and stadium seating facing toward to project’s panoramic eastward view.

Partial demolition will be required for the existing theater, though the art deco-era facade will be retained and integrated into the design. The building itself was opened in 1914, with the existing facade added in a 1929-1930 remodeling. The facade was determined to be a landmark, though not the interiors.

Studio KDA is responsible for the design. The darker-toned addition will be in contrast with the ornate podium feature with a distinctly contemporary facade treatment. The existing facade and marquee will be retained. Rising above the facade will be the 15-story facade clad with ceramic-coated rain screens, stucco, and wood grain high-pressure laminate panels.

https://sfyimby.com/2022/09/renderin...-berkeley.html

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Originally Posted by JManc

Fremont has to be the dullest area as far as new projects and proposals go. Everyone else has at least something.

It's got more than Palo Alto and some of the other NIMBY Mid-Peninsula towns at least. There's a bunch of recent/current not particularly impressive but still substantial construction by the Warm Springs / South Fremont BART station (next to the Tesla plant).
https://goo.gl/maps/4LcjSUoaFMdhynJT6

It's also pretty hot in terms of commercial real estate, even if it is all suburban office parks.

Big Fremont tech buildings land Chicago buyers in $80.5 million deal
Deal shows investors hunger for tech and biotech campuses in Bay Area

By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2022 at 6:45 a.m.

FREMONT — Two Fremont office buildings have been bought for $80.5 million by a group from Chicago in a sign that real estate investors still hunger for tech and biotech properties in Silicon Valley.

The buildings are located near each other in Fremont’s Ardenwood district and were bought by an affiliate of Chicago-based LaSalle Investment Management, documents filed on Sept. 16 with the Alameda County Recorder’s Office show.

Acting through separate affiliates, LaSalle Investment paid $42.5 million for a building at 6500 Kaiser Drive and $38 million for another building at 6300 Dumbarton Circle, according to the Alameda County property documents.

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Fremont’s Ardenwood district has become a hotbed of companies seeking to operate near Silicon Valley with access to the tech hub from Interstate 880 and the Dumbarton Bridge.

Tech, biotech and life sciences companies have also leased space in Ardenwood because the location places the employees who work in Fremont closer to relatively less-expensive housing in the East Bay than would be the case if they operated in the same kinds of facilities in San Mateo County or San Francisco.

Facebook app owner Meta Platforms is perhaps the highest-profile company in Ardenwood. The social networking behemoth is renting at least 1 million square feet in Fremont’s Ardenwood district.

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/0...-tech-biotech/