Detailed plans have been published for the redevelopment of the existing GoPro Headquarters at 3000 Clearview Way in San Mateo, San Mateo County. The application looks to reshape the nearly 22-acre office campus with 222 residences, including townhomes and detached single-family homes. Harvest Properties is the project sponsor, in partnership with Stockbridge.
Clearview Housing paseo between blocks, rendering by KTGY
Clearview Housing aerial perspective looking east, rendering by KTGY
The master plan is looking to produce around 633,800 square feet of housing spanning across 95 structures, including 73 detached homes and 22 multiplexes. The full build-out will produce 222 for-sale units, averaging around 2,146 square feet per unit. Parking will be included for 485 vehicles, including 32 guest spots. The developer will designate 33 units as affordable to moderate-income households.
KTGY is responsible for the design, with JETT overseeing the landscape architecture. The planset looks to dress the 95 wood-frame structures in three different architectural styles, described as Spanish, French, and modern Farmhouse styles. The proposed neighborhood will feature a network of several paseos between buildings alongside a handful of pocket parks with communal amenities.
Clearview Housing aerial overview, rendering by KTGY
Clearview Housing view from Highway 92, rendering by KTGY
Clearview Housing children’s park, rendering by KTGY
Clearview Housing site map, rendering by JETT
The existing complex was built in 1973 as the former Visa Headquarters. GoPro was founded in Half Moon Bay in 2002 and moved into the Clearview campus in 2011. Harvest Properties and Stockbridge purchased the site earlier this month for $102 million.
The property is on a hilltop with panoramic views of the bay, adjacent to the expansive College of San Mateo campus and roughly a mile from he recently completed residential enclave at 2755 Campus Drive, developed by the PulteGroup. Future residents will be in a car-oriented neighborhood close to Highway 92, and half a mile away from the nearby shopping center.
Clearview Business Park, image via Harvest Properties and Stockbridge
The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
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If only adding a corner store was such an easy addition.
Quite the solid plan. It’s just missing the ability for a small grocer, bakery, coffee shop, etc.
To be fair (and as mentioned in the article), there is a shopping center a half-mile away – and it features a locally-owned coffee shop, a locally-owned grocer/deli, and while not a bakery, there’s a locally-owned cake/dessert shop and a locally-owned bagel cafe.
There is a slope (150-ft. change in elevation) over that half-mile, and you go under the freeway, so maybe it’s not what you’d call super-walkable, but it’s certainly better than a lot of development nowadays.
I’m pretty fond of this approach. It gives people what they want – more than 2,000 square feet and a two car garage – while being very dense. Backyards are minimal but there are common area parks, which is a much better use of land. Compare that to homes in the Sunset of SF, where lots are ~50% a wasteland of rarely used backyard, and the other half is a much smaller home. This project is a fair middle ground that YIMBYs should support. If the entire Bay just went all-in on this type of project, we’d be in a very good place.
I agree. Backyards, while great for certain things, are vastly inferior to a shared park for getting to know your neighbors, not to mention no lawn to mow.
Getting to know your neighbors is underrated.
Is there a height limit in the area? why not build some really tall high-rise condos and apartments and really maximize the space to build high density housing and put as many people in the area as possible? There are two (2) shopping centers close by, Crystal Springs and Laurelwood, so putting thousand of people in that area would be great to help with housing shortages… and maybe make a significant portion of the housing low to moderate income housing.
Since the office property is past its 50-year cutoff point for depreciation, this type of demolition is at the right time, and the replacement is with the right type of housing.
I believe the opinions shared upthread on backyards are decidedly in the minority of suburbanites; many people want space, light and the sense of privacy/separation yards offer. However, otherwise I agree. I would like to see more developments like this and Bay Meadows.
A depressing plan imho.
No there there.
Gotta drive anywhere.
No private open space. No connection to the landscape and hills/views beyond (except for the homes at the edge of the embankment)
Monotonous and repetitive. Easy to imagine mistakenly stumbling into the wrong home.
At the low density of 10du/acre one would expect more amenity.