Project plans for a life science campus have been approved for development at 100 East Grand Avenue in South San Francisco, San Mateo County. The project proposal includes the development of two ten-story buildings offering spaces for research and development. The campus will replace a series of commercial structures on the site.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities is the project applicant. ZGF Architects is the designer.
100 East Grand Avenue street view, rendering by ZGF Architects
The planning commission approved the project in early October this year. The project site is a parcel measuring 5 acres. The life science campus will feature two buildings; one ten-story building yielding an area of 298,827 square feet and one eight-story building spanning 244,467 square feet. An eight-story parking garage with 782 parking spaces will also be developed on the site. The campus will yield a total built-up area of 541,284 square feet.
100 East Grand Avenue view over Highway 101, rendering by ZGF Architects
Other than R&D activities, the campus will also feature 40 percent of spaces dedicated for office use. A cafe spanning 8,800 square feet is also proposed in the ten-story building.
The estimated construction timeline has not been announced yet.
100 East Grand Avenue garage, rendering by ZGF Architects
The project site is located between East Grand Avenue and the U.S. 101, with multifamily complexes built nearby. The is accessible via transportation services like Caltrain, the U.S. 101, BART and several ferry terminals.
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SSF has a pretty amazing development (and likely tax) strategy in place. I feel like over the last 5-7 years it’s really sort of risen to the housing demand and started to think about its future.
It’ll be interesting to see where it goes over the next decade—both in terms of the scale of the building that’s happening and also the community.
with 782 parking spaces, do they expect anyone to be taking the train that is literally right across the street? this is a serious question, since I don’t know how many people would be expected to work on a campus this size.
541,284 sqf yields between 2500 and 1300 employees (biotech lab spaces are between 200 and 400 sqf per employees), so this design is assuming a substantial amount of non-private automobile commuting
-the bay as a whole does about 65% private auto commuter mode split (mostly driven by SF county), san mateo county is around 78% and this project is somewhere between 30 and 60 % private auto mode share.
*non auto-commuting driven primarily by SF county