The Palo Alto Planning Commission is scheduled to review plans tomorrow evening for an eight-story apartment complex at 788 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County. The meeting will cover the 167-unit development. Grubb Properties is the project applicant, working with consultant Ted O’Hanlon at Explore Real Estate.
788 San Antonio Road sidewalk view, rendering by KTGY Group
788 San Antonio Road rear perspective, rendering by KTGY Group
The 84-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 198,700 square feet of housing and 1,550 square feet of ground-floor retail. Unit sizes will vary with 37 studios, 96 one-bedrooms, and 34 two-bedrooms. Of the 167 apartments, 25 will be designated as affordable housing. Parking will be included for 74 vehicles and 167 bicycles.
KTGY Group is responsible for the design, working with the landscape architect, Border. Updated renderings show a podium-style complex articulated with a collage-style mix of cementitious panels, metal, stucco, and stone veneer. Residential amenities will include a landscaped podium courtyard with a pool deck, a pet spa, a co-working lounge, a fitness center, and a rooftop clubroom.
788 San Antonio Road aerial overview, rendering by KTGY Group
788 San Antonio Road, illustration by KTGY
The roughly one-acre-wide property is located along San Antonio Road between East Charleston Road and Leghorn Street. Future residents will be a 25-minute walk from the San Antonio Caltrain Station, or six minutes by bicycle. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have not yet been shared.
788 San Antonio Road, image via Google Satellite outlined approximately by YIMBY
The meeting is scheduled to start tomorrow, April 8th, starting at 6 PM. The hybrid event will be held in person and online via Zoom. For more information about how to attend and participate, visit the city website here.
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I’m the last person to be advocating for cars over public transit, but the lack of parking spaces in this project is interesting. This area is a total car gutter. I’m not sure how people living here are expected to get around, e.g. biking down San Antonio to get to Caltrain is extremely dangerous.
I guess Charleston has (unprotected) bike lanes, and this is walking distance to Costco. But I hope projects like this are paired with bike-friendly roadway improvements, otherwise I fail to see how working families could live here.
Ok this location has easy access to 1 bus-line, the 21. Better than nothing, but not great. I think this whole area needs to start investing heavily in biking infrastructure.
I agree. I actually wouldn’t mind a fat parking podium here, it’s actually closer to the 101 interchange than the San Antonio caltrain station.
San Antonio is an odd arterial, it goes from the 101 interchange to the north of there, south through Mountain View at El Camino, then south of there it’s part of Los Altos all the way to downtown Los Altos. I feel like the corridor could use much better multimodal connectivity – you can’t even get from downtown Los Altos to the nearest caltrain station, San Antonio, on a single bus! You’d have to transfer to the 21 or walk almost a mile, and neither of those busses are very frequent.
I wonder if the fact that San Antonio corridor runs along the edges of like three different cities has contributed to it’s lack of cohesive planning? At least it has some (unprotected) bike lanes in Los Altos I guess… maybe it’ll be a cohesive corridor in another 50 years.