Construction crews have nearly topped out Aquino, the eight-story apartment complex at 486 West San Carlos Street in San Jose, Santa Clara County. Once complete, the project will add 278 new apartments just a couple of blocks away from Discovery Meadow in Downtown San Jose. Urban Catalyst is the project developer.
Swenson Builders is the general contractor responsible for building the project. The structure features a three-story concrete podium with five floors of wood-frame construction. Crews are finishing the wood framing on the top floor, with facade installation expected to start later.
Aquino, rendering by BDE Architecture
Once complete, the eight-story structure is expected to produce 278 units, of which 14 will be deed-restricted affordable units for very low-income households. Unit types will vary, with 211 smaller units with 0-1 bedrooms and 67 two- or three-bedroom residences. Parking will include 167 cars and 88 bicycles. The ground floor will include the internal garage and a community room.
BDE Architecture is responsible for the design. While facade installation has not yet started, the wood framing already shows the accordion-style rounded edge that will soon overlook West San Carlos Street and Josefa Street. The exterior will receive a barcode-inspired facade treatment with vertical panels and two clusters of private balconies.
498 West San Carlos Street, ground-level floor plan by BDE Architecture
The 0.83-acre property is on a lot bounded by West San Carlos Street, Josefa Street, Delmas Avenue, and Auzerais Avenue. Future residents will be just a couple of blocks from Discovery Meadow in Downtown San Jose and less than 15 minutes on foot from Diridon Station, currently served by Caltrain and VTA light rail, with future plans to connect the site to the BART transit network.
Across the street, Urban Catalyst is nearly finished with the eight-story Marriott TowneSuites Hotel at 495 West San Carlos Street. A couple of parcels down from Aquino is 470 West San Carlos Street, where Urban Catalyst has also started site work for Gifford, a very similarly designed eight-story residential complex for senior housing.
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Seriously, how long do these mid-rise wood-frame buildings last? Seems like concrete would last a lot longer. I bet the floors are really squeaky.
Awful lotta 100+ y/o wood-framed Victorians you guak over.
Never hear you b*tch about those.
Drewl. Sigh. Somtimes. I wish you were a bit smarter.
Those Victorians you dislike so much were built of redwood and they were mainly built solidly. Furthermore, most of them are not five, six, or seven stories with a floorplate as big as a city block in some instances.
Those five-over-ones that get you all hot and bothered are made of cheap pine and chipboard. They are typically at least five stories and they have vast floorplates.
I have lived in cheap mid-century dingbats in Southern California that were barely two or three decades old at the time and they were squeaky as flock.
My only point is that most of these cheapie stackashacks ain’t gonna age well, but maybe they are designed to be disposable.
I’ve been in dozens of “solid” redwood Victorians where the stairs squeak like hell, the floors and walls aren’t level, and the thermal barriers simply don’t exist.
Your point stands that modern day construction doesn’t hold a candle with CA’s world renowned insanely strict building codes against houses with windows that are too expensive to replace CAUSE CHARACTER above life and death. Sure, Jan.
What industry did they sh*t you out of? I’d be terrified if it has anything to do with the built environment.
Drewl. Serious question here. Why do you live in San Francisco – America’s most unique city – if you hate it so much?
Why do you hate the possibility of America’s youth being able to share paradise? Or shall the class that wrote the rules of exclusion kill the city as they die with it?
So, we are supposed to kill San Francisco so we can “save” it. Great logic bruh. There ain’t no way we can accommodate everyone who wants to live here is there? You don’t have a right to live in San Francisco anymore than I do to live in your hometown, do I? San Francisco is tiny; it’s delicate; it’s finite.
Plus, when your boomer parents kick the bucket, all you millennials will be rich, amirite? Plus, all the rich people I see in San Francisco are young tech bros. Hardly worth feeling sorry for. My sympathies are with local people: natives and working-class people of color, not you.
Parking nighmare.