The PulteGroup has finished The Heights, a new housing project at 2755 Campus Drive in San Mateo, San Mateo County. The development features 156 units of single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums. Dahlin Group is responsible for the design.
Pulte Elevate at The Heights, image courtesy PulteGroup
Heights north site (left) and south site (right), rendering by Dahlin Group
Harvest Properties acquired the site in July 2018 in a joint venture with Invesco. The project was initially filed for 290 units, with public review occurring in 2019 and final approval in late 2020. The team sold the entitlements in 2021 to PulteGroup. Full buildout of the Heights entitlements would include 290 units across two separate lots. PulteGroup has completed the South Site phase. The North Site would provide 134 units around 2800 Campus Drive.
The south side includes 156 units with a mix of 44 single-family homes. The remaining apartments vary with 34 two-bedrooms, 62 three-bedrooms, and 16 four-bedroom apartments. The northern site would redevelop 7 acres with 134 apartments in a similar mix of single-family homes, townhomes, and apartments. Residential amenities will include a fitness center, dog park, community garden, and outdoor open space.
Heights, rendering by Dahlin Group
Heights south site, prior condition via Google Satellite
The property is located surrounded by suburbs close to Highway 92 and near the hilltop College of San Mateo campus. Future residents would be around half an hour from the Hillsdale Caltrain Station via bus.
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You need a better spell checker or editor. Putle Group?
These are so insanely ugly, my jaw fell to the floor
False. Nothing is uglier than NIMBY’s soul.
The second ugliest thing is a housing shortage in the Peninsula.
There‘s so many available brownfield sites in San Mateo proper that are connected by transit and walkable. The choice to place 100 homes in a mountain, far from any neighborhood resources is concerning because it means these residents are farther from the daily resource they need.
For me – the problem isn‘t the homes getting built, it‘s that the location they chose. I‘d rather the focus on building up a strong downtown core, especially given recent Caltrain electrification. In SF it‘s a different story because every resident is within 3 blocks of a transit stop, so build wherever and quickly but in San Mateo it‘s very limited.
Someone needs to meditate.
This is actually a nice project that is far from ugly. Sometimes, I think we need to skip a generation from making decisions about what is good design or aesthetically pleasing (of which I am a part). Because my generation is just way too stuck on nostalgia and past styles to appreciate some decent medium density housing that communities like San Mateo go out of their way to block.
And BTW, Pulte Group is the correct spelling. Not sure what the point of the first comment was. If you are bothering to comment just because a space is missing (likely taken from the website address), there are better things to do.
Indeed. The Pavlovian manner in which NIMBYs throw out the word ‘ugly’ carries a huge level of projection. Have you even been to an approval meeting? See what the opposing NIMBYs look like, sound like, and the quality of their attire and personal grooming. Very low quality.
As someone who is 38 and grew up here, has nothing to do with NIMBY behavior. There are too many people in the bay now, wish people would ACTUALLY leave in droves like they say they want to. We added 2 million people to the greater bay since 2012, last time the bay saw that much growth in such a short time frame was the 1950’s. The bay sold out to tech bro idiots.
The scale and mass are way over whelming for this one and two story historic neighborhood. No effort has been put in to adapt the building design to the smaller scale buildings that will abut this horizontal high rise. This is more of a downtown building. The architecture reminds more of the school of brutalism. Showing the bones does not relate to the area. This really needs to be rethought. Its not so much the unit count, but the density is 3X times the area but how it fits in – and it does not.