Preliminary permits have been filed for hundreds of homes to replace the Walnut Creek Executive Park, a large office campus around 2775 Mitchell Drive in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County. The filing provides the first inkling about a new community named the Mitchell Drive Townhomes, surrounded by strip malls and suburban sprawl.
The Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission is scheduled to review plans for a five-story affordable housing infill at 3265 El Camino Real. The project would create 44 new homes for public school educators on a narrow parcel near the California Avenue Caltrain station. Palo Alto-based Half Dome Capital is responsible for the development.
New permits have been filed to replace two single-family homes at 1271 and 1279 East Julian Street with just over three hundred units of fully affordable housing. The updated filing has more than doubled the dwelling count for the proposal in the Five Wounds neighborhood in San Jose, close to the planned 28th Street/Little Portugal BART Station. Integrated Community Development is the project sponsor.
A preliminary application has been filed to construct over a thousand affordable housing units along Airport Boulevard and Brickway Boulevard near Santa Rosa in unincorporated Sonoma County. The filing invokes the Builder’s Remedy to sidestep local zoning and develop the vacant parcel of land next to a small domestic airport between Santa Rosa and Windsor. Gallaher Community Housing is the project sponsor.
The Burlingame Planning Commission is scheduled to review a life sciences proposal at 1499 Old Bayshore Highway in the city’s waterfront industrial neighborhood. The proposal will bring eight stories of future lab space alongside a seven-story garage. It is the second joint venture between Helios Real Estate Partners and King Street Properties in the San Mateo County city, the first of which has already topped out half a mile away.
