Construction has officially started on the first new mixed-use apartment community to rise in Daly City in fifteen years. Chester at Westlake will become a seven-story residential complex with over two hundred homes at 99 Southgate Avenue, overlooking the popular Westlake Shopping Center. Kimco Realty and Bozzuto have partnered together as joint developers.
With construction now underway, the development team is celebrating the first predominantly market-rate apartment community to break ground in Daly City in fifteen years. Bozzuto will be the lead developer for The Chester, with Kimco involved for retail. Kimco has owned and operated Westlake Shopping Center since 2002. President and CEO Toby Bozzuto said, “We are honored to partner again with Kimco on The Chester at Westlake, Bozzuto’s first ground-up development on the West Coast.” J.P. Morgan is supporting the project by providing construction financing.
The Chester at Westgate sit map, illustration via the 2022-approved plan set
Kimco CEO Conor Flynn provided the following statement from a press release, saying, “Westlake has always been at the heart of Daly City, and with The Chester, we are writing its next chapter… This project reflects our strategy of transforming high-quality retail destinations into thriving mixed-use communities that bring new housing, amenities, and energy to one of the Bay Area’s most established neighborhoods.”
The roughly 85-foot-tall structure will yield over 350,000 square feet, with roughly 250,000 square feet for housing, 10,000 square feet of ground-level retail, and less than 100,000 square feet for parking. The complex will add 214 apartments above a two-story concrete podium garage, with capacity for 288 cars.
The Chester will feature studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms, and three-bedrooms, more than two-thirds of which will include a private balcony or terrace. Residential amenities will include a fitness center, yoga room, co-working space, a communal bar, two landscaped courtyards, and a rooftop sky lounge.
BDE Architecture is responsible for the design. Illustrations depict a contemporary podium-style apartment building with facade articulation and material variation, visually breaking up the overall massing. The exterior will be clad with fiber cement panels, siding, board-formed concrete, and stucco.
99 Southgate Avenue, image via Google Satellite
The 1.93-acre property is located within the Westlake District, positioned between the Westlake Shopping Center and the Westlake Village Apartments, managed by Greystar. For regional transit, residents will be just eight minutes away from the Daly City BART Station via bus or bicycle. The shopping center is one of the first malls to open in America, with construction starting in 1949 by developer Henry Doelger and opening in 1951.
JETT is responsible for the landscape architecture, with civil engineering from Kimley-Horn and interior design by Vida Design. Palisade Builders is the general contractor. Completion is expected as early as Winter 2027.
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Looks good except for this building having roughly 28% of its interior square footage devoted to the storage of cars. This location has excellent public transit service. It’s a stone’s throw away from Samtrans stops that are served by two different routes, one of which has service every ten to fifteen minutes seven days a week and the other with less frequent but very good service. This is definitely a location where one can live well without an automobile.
Tell that to some poor senior citizen trying to come home from the market in the rain with three bags of groceries.
This isn’t New York or Chicago…people drive here.
There’s a grocery store across the street.
“the first new mixed-use apartment community to rise in Daly City in fifteen years.” !!! The land-use regime in California is absolutely exclusionary and criminal.