Revised plans have been filed for a shorter 21-story senior housing tower at 910 Marshall Street and 1800 Broadway in the heart of Redwood City, San Mateo County. The development is still poised to redefine the county seat’s skyline, though sizably reduced from the previous 345-foot-tall iteration withdrawn earlier this year. R&M Properties is the project developer.
910 Marshall Street lobby view, rendering by HGA
910 Marshall Street seen from Jefferson Avenue and El Camino Real, rendering by HGA
The 258-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 440,500 square feet, including just over a quarter million square feet of housing, 92,660 square feet for circulation, 33,420 square feet of amenities, 1,210 square feet of retail, and 35,500 square feet for parking. The retail will occupy a small ground-level spot at the corner of Marshall Street and Walnut Street.
If built today, 910 Marshall Street would become the tallest building in Redwood City, surpassing the glass-wrapped 224-foot-tall Oracle office tower in the tech giant’s Redwood Shores campus. With an expected rooftop height of 258 feet, it would not be close to claiming the mantle of tallest structure in San Mateo County, currently held by the 317-foot-tall Genesis North Tower in South San Francisco. Metro Center is the second-tallest building in San Mateo County, reaching 305 feet tall.
910 Marshall Street vertical elevation, illustration by HGA
Residential amenities will be centralized around the third floor, with a programming emphasis to encourage an active lifestyle. The SWA-designed terrace will have a garden, lounge seating, outdoor dining seating, and an open meadow. Inside, residents will have access to the dining room, library, theater, pool, fitness center, yoga studio, and a golf simulation room.
HGA is responsible for the design. Facade materials will include glass fiber reinforced concrete, ground-level board-formed concrete, and metal panels.
The following passage was included in the project website, explaining why the developer is pursuing the high-density senior housing project:
It is estimated that the population of those 75 and older in San Mateo County will more than double in just the next twenty years. At the same time, the new senior housing has only marginally increased in the Bay Area, lagging far behind the projected demand. Our proposal will help meet the projected surge of housing demand as our population ages.
910 Marshall Street is considered an underutilized prime housing development site within Redwood City. Illustrations from the project plan set show a six-story office complex is proposed next to 910 Marshal Street, but is unrelated to the current project. The application invokes the State Density Bonus law to increase residential capacity 20% above base zoning for a fully senior housing project.
910 Marshall Street landscaping map, illustration by HGA
1800 Broadway and 910 Marshall Street, image via Google Satellite, site outlined approximately by YIMBY
The 1.08-acre property occupies an irregularly shaped lot bound by Marshall Street, Walnut Street, and Broadway. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
Subscribe to YIMBY’s daily e-mail
Follow YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates
Like YIMBY on Facebook
Follow YIMBY’s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews
Society does WAY too much for seniors. We need to start with ending social security.
We are flooding 70+ year olds with HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars per year
and they take that money and OUTBID the rest of us for housing.
that BOOMER gets the house – the working, productive 30 year old is forced into wage slavery & renting a shoe box.
tough conversation, but it NEEDS TO HAPPEN
The average Social Security check for a 65-year-old retired worker is approximately $1,611 per month, though this varies by sex and the specific data source and date. That took all of ten seconds for me to find.
Plus, most Boomers bought their houses decades ago and there will be a flood of houses on the market as they pass on. If you’re being outbid for something it’s from other thirty somethings who apparently have better jobs than you.
Plus, the whole development is for senior housing that allows them to stay near their old neighborhood while at the same time MOVING OUT OF THE HOUSE YOU WANT. You clearly haven’t thought this through very well.
$1,611/mo = $19,332/year = $579,960 over 30 year retirement.
and in a majority of cases, they have more than enough money to survive. this is not a social safety net, this is one last grift on their way out.
help people who need help, no one will complain.
forcing millionaire retirees to draw social security is completely useless.
Paul already said most of what needed to be said, but I’ll just add that one measure of an advanced civil society is how well it takes care of the older generation when they no longer can live independently. I’d hate to be your parents when they need support in their later years based on your post.
100 percent
civil society lol. social security is going bankrupt in less than 10 years. who will take care of the 30 year olds today when they reach retirement age?
Don’t worry, your Dear Leader is working to eliminate Social Security. However, the Boomers won’t lose out….it will be Gen X that will get the shaft. As always.
All the seniors are who built the society you live in. They are the ones who worked tirelessly to pay for their homes, their children, the bills and whose backs you stand on as your enjoy your freedoms in this great country. They should be cherished and supported.
Boomers who worked all their lives deserve whatever perks they get because they have earned them
You sound like someone who would open the lethal gas valve to eliminate seniors.
The vast majority of seniors are not wealthy. They are living on a dwindling fixed income, if they are lucky, struggling to pay rising utility bills and food cost. There are certainly extemeley wealthy seniors but they do not represent most. The senior homeless population is already the largest proportion of all homeless, and you want to take away society’s support for them?
Approve ASAP and start on the next units.
Agreed. Well said.
So will the dining room alternate cuisines for each day with rare takeout and fast food dining option? In that the seniors get different foods to try out or will it be simple comfort food that needs a instant pot, slow cooker, griller, air fryer, microwave oven, and finally a gas stove? Expensive or cheap?
While in old age some will be still be cooking for their partner and still want control of the kitchen…so going be turned into a meals on wheels kitchen with of course the food bank, donations and buying individual packs filling in the rest of old aging as well?
For the dude who doesn’t like seniors, go back to India if you don’t like it.
Dear Pean Dreston, Social Security isn’t “one last grift on their way out” as you wrote, we paid into it our entire working lives. I personally have paid into it over 45 years and earned every penny which I am about to receive. If the government should END social security (as you call for in your first sentence), I expect to receive a check for reimbursement for the 45 years worth of Soc Sec taxes I paid into it. You also wrote “We are flooding 70+ year olds with HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars PER YEAR”, then when Paul pointed out the average is only $1,611/mo = $19,332 per year, you then tried to change your argument to “over a 30 year retirement”. Few of us will be lucky enough to have a 15-year retirement, let alone a 30-year retirement. Regardless, we paid into it for many decades and the amount we paid earned interest all those decades. To save Soc Sec, some propose raising or eliminating the cap on earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax.