The Clearview Business Park in San Mateo was recently acquired by Harvest Properties in partnership with Stockbridge. The site, located at 3000–3155 Clearview Way, currently serves as business offices for multiple organizations, including the well-known camera company GoPro. Preliminary intentions for the site are to demolish the existing office buildings and construct up to 225 townhomes, bringing new housing to the area.
3000–3155 Clearview Way, image via Google Street View
The future townhomes are to be for-sale properties, available to a range of homebuyers. The project developers have indicated that 15% of the units are to be sold as affordable housing options.
The proposal aims to create energy-efficient, drought-tolerant, and comfortably designed homes. Exterior styles will use a combination of modern and traditional architecture, tying in to the surrounding aesthetics. Public areas will include landscaped paseos, gathering areas, and a central green space.
As per a representative at Harvest Properties, the 22-acre site was selected due to the location’s ability to integrate new housing with the surrounding area. The site is located immediately adjacent to San Mateo College, with other residential neighborhoods surrounding it to the south and east.
In terms of transportation, there are several nearby bus lines that serve the area, and vehicle access to the nearby 92 freeway. There is also easy access to the Laurelwood shopping center within a short walk or drive of the future homes.
3000–3155 Clearview Way Site Location, image via ArcGIS Online
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Great reuse. Good on Harvest. Would love to see more deals like this. Ideally located closer to transit so we can get some mid and high rise. Townhomes seem appropriate for here
From a development and construction perspective, The Chester at Westlake reflects a typical transit-oriented mixed-use model where residential density is integrated with retail and existing urban infrastructure.
The podium-style typology combined with multiple façade materials indicates an attempt to balance massing control with visual articulation, which is common in mid-rise infill projects in dense suburban-urban interfaces.
However, the real performance of such developments will depend less on architectural rendering and more on execution quality of the podium structure, MEP coordination, and long-term interface between residential and retail functions.
Given its scale and financing structure, construction management efficiency and post-occupancy operational performance will be the key factors determining whether the project truly enhances the Westlake district’s urban fabric.