The Berkeley Design Review Committee is scheduled to review plans tomorrow evening for the eight-story apartment complex at 2700 Shattuck Avenue in South Berkeley, Alameda County. The proposal will create several hundred apartments between Downtown Berkeley and the Ashby BART Station. Hudson McDonald is responsible for the application.
2700 Shattuck Avenue view from Ward Street, rendering by SDT Architects
2700 Shattuck Avenue ground-level retail space, rendering by SDT Architects
The 90-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 318,370 square feet, including 276,800 square feet of housing,36,470 square feet for the ground-level garage, and 5,140 square feet of ground-level retail. Unit sizes will include 124 studios, 184 one-bedrooms, and 51 two-bedrooms. Parking will be included for 141 cars and 158 bicycles. The project will include a total of 359 units, of which 38 will be deed-restricted as affordable to very low-income households.
Stackhouse De La Pẽna Trachtenberg Architects is responsible for the design, and Jett Landscape Architecture + Design is overseeing the landscape architecture. The podium-style complex will conform to a trapezoidal property, with an articulated facade clad with thin brick veneer, metal infill, stucco cladding, and wood-look siding. Residential amenities will be concentrated around the second-floor central courtyard and two rooftop decks overlooking Shattuck Avenue.
2700 Shattuck Avenue ground-level retail space, rendering by SDT Architects
2700 Shattuck Avenue along Derby Street, rendering by SDT Architects
Demolition will be required for the two existing car dealership buildings and associated surface parking. The 1.1-acre property is located along Shattuck Avenue between Derby Street and Ward Street. Future residents will be just two blocks from the Berkeley Bowl grocery store and four blocks from the Ashby BART Station.
The Berkeley Design Review Committee is scheduled to review the plans tomorrow, March 18th, starting at 6:30 PM. The hybrid event will occur in-person at the North Berkeley Senior Center, with virtual attendance made possible via Zoom. For more information about how to attend and particiapte, visit the city website here.
2700 Shattuck Avenue floor plan, illustration by SDT Architects
2700 Shattuck Avenue, image via Google Satellite outlined approximately by YIMBY
The estimated cost and timeline for construction have not yet been shared.
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Seems like a good place to build something like this….nice to get rid of parking lots and one-story junk buildings on the edge of downtown Berkeley. Although not an amazing design, it’s much better than those cheapo plywood stackashacks colonizing Shattuck Ave. I know they pack a lot of housing in them, but this podium junk is really not going to age well…but I guess we don’t care? Berkeley’s “Design Review” committee seems like it’s a bought and paid for YIMBY subsidiary, just like the rest of the local government.
What is it about podiums that will not age well?
It’s not the podium itself, it’s the plywood with the sprayed on dryvit. It’s just a thin layer of foam. They used it on many of the “live work” lofts built in teh 1990s and early 2000s in SOMA. It absorbs soot and dust and frequently sprouts mildew. And it crumbles. Within 15 years it looks like doody and has to be redone. Also, it’s really flat and boring looking, and this, combined with the cheap windows with no recesses….just garbage. Utter Scheisse.
Too bad nothing is happening on the east side of Shattuck between Derby and Dwight. I assume this is due to an issue of a non-interested landowner? I don’t recall seeing any proposals for projects in that stretch.
Berkeley gets the award for being on top of building housing. All solid projects (relatively speaking of course) and plenty of density with infill. Win.
It does make me wonder though, how are they producing so much more housing than surrounding cities? Driven by student population, migration, jobs, funding? Cost of construction can’t be magically cheaper across the bay.
Looks like a handsome building. Wish we’d get more lookers like this in SF, instead of the gray boxy slop.