Plans have been approved for housing at 777 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County. With the green light from the city’s Planning Commission, the project is expected to add well over two hundred dwellings to the former Orchard Supply Hardware location between Saratoga Road and South Mathilda Avenue. Valley Oak Partners is responsible for the application.
777 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road apartments, rendering by Studio T Square
777 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road townhomes, rendering by Studio T Square
The 75-foot-tall apartment complex is expected to create 162 apartments alongside 80 townhomes. Apartment types will vary with 45 studios, 35 one-bedrooms, 42 two-bedrooms, and 40 three-bedrooms. Parking will be included for 281 cars and 212 bicycles.
Oakland-based Studio T Square is responsible for the design. The latest renderings show the podium apartment complex conforming to the triangular parcel. The exterior will be clad with a mix of exterior plaster, fiber cement panels, and board-and-batten panels.
777 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road, rendering by Studio T Square
777 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road site map, illustration by Vandertoolen Associates
The 5.24-acre property is located along Sunnyvale Saratoga Road. Future residents will be close to several large big-box strip malls anchored by grocery stores. The Sunnyvale Caltrain Station is less than ten minutes away by bicycle or bus.
The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
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Here’s a great model for the South Bay for these huge retail+parking lots:
– Demolish everything
– Ground/First Floor is retail and parking for that retail in a garage.
– Second floor is a parking garage for residents.
– 3rd-7th floor is residential, including a healthy mix of family-sized, 2,000 square foot units.
It’s sad that even these dense developments will be consigned to car dependency.
Hopefully South Bay will eventually realize they picked the wrong transit modality and start building proper public transit.
At least increasing density is a step in the right direction.
I wish you were right, but the South Bay has a long, LONG way before public transit is viable. Heck, in San Francisco itself, the second densest city in the US, it still makes sense to drive a car for the majority of trips because public transit is not there.