Ensemble Investments has shared new details about two of its projects within the Tasman East master plan in Santa Clara. The team is preparing for the January opening of AVE Santa Clara, an eight-story residential mid-rise with over three hundred homes. Next door, the team has refurbished a Carl’s Junior building with a bar and grill surrounded by landscaping and food trucks.
AVE Santa Clara pedestrian view, rendering by Ensemble
AVE Santa Clara corner view, rendering by Ensemble
During our last coverage, AVE Santa Clara had topped out at 2278 Calle Del Luna last summer. The 85-foot-tall structure contains around 477,000 square feet, with 281,200 square feet for 311 apartments, 180,200 square feet for parking, and 15,900 square feet for retail. A four-story garage will accommodate 443 cars and 160 bicycles. Dwelling types vary, with a live/work unit, 52 studios, 215 one-bedroom apartments, 28 two-bedroom apartments, and 15 three-bedrooms.
Ensemble will offer a mix of traditional rentals and fully furnished dwellings with flexible leases. The high-end housing will provide access to around 36,200 square feet of indoor-outdoor amenity space, lounges, a two-story fitness center, a dog park, Zen courtyards, a roof deck garden, and a pool deck furnished with fire pits.
Clara’s Junction aerial view, rendering courtesy Ensemble
Clara’s Junction exterior perspective, rendering courtesy Ensemble
Clara’s Junction will open later this month on Parcel 29 with a 15,000-square-foot building at the center of a food and drinks garden. The building, formerly occupied by a Carl’s Jr. restaurant, will include a bar and grill inside, a Taz’s Taco trailer, and space for more food trucks. The space will be managed by the hospitality team at Apicii. Ensemble describes their vision for the site’s future as “to become a popular destination for both game day celebrations and everyday enjoyment.” Levi’s Stadium, home to the San Francisco 49ers Football Team, is within walking distance for residents and visitors.
Plans for Parcel 29 by Ensemble were a 20-story residential tower with 192 apartments and 9,000 square feet of retail.
The Tasman East masterplan aims to replace the former industrial enclave across from Levi’s Stadium with 4,500 residential units by multiple developers, including affordable housing, over 100,000 square feet of retail, a grocery store, a potential urban school, and over ten acres of public open space.
2278 Calle Del Luna circa August 2023, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson
Tasman East aerial view showcasing projects by Ensemble, rendering courtesy Ensemble
During our last visit, we noted seven projects with 2,225 apartments at various stages of construction. Clara’s Junction is expected to open later this month, with AVE Santa Clara expected to open by January 2025.
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More unaffordable housing only for hight tech workers.
Amazingly clueless point.
One truly has to marvel at the statements of low-IQ NIMBYs. “Since you can’t build enough supply to immediately mitigate the high costs, nothing should be built.”
Epic fail.
Tech workers will move out of their current units freeing up more housing for others. The excess housing that the tech workers used to live in won’t be able to get tenants at the high prices. Those rental prices will soften and become more affordable for the rest of us. Saw this happen in, yes, San Francisco when a lot of condos came online in 2014-15 and beyond. Nice, older buildings couldn’t charge sky high rents. Basic supply and demand. Econ 101.
Yes, but that is too much for a NIMBY to grasp.
Supply and Demand is too much for these whiners like J Doe.