The new ZEISS office center at 5300 Central Parkway in Dublin, Alameda County, is now complete. Named the ZEISS Innovation Center, the three-story office building will centralize the firm’s previous footprint split between Dublin and Pleasanton with purpose-built facilities for the company’s evolving needs. The project architect at Gensler spoke with SFYIMBY about the building and design inspiration.
A pre-screening review application has been filed for a five-story residential development at 3150 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County. The project would add 129 new units to the Silicon Valley housing market, including some affordable housing. Acclaim Companies is the project developer.
The City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Kings have announced plans to replace the basketball team’s vacated home, the Sleep Train Arena, with a new 400-bed medical facility for California Northstate University. Located in the Natomas area north of downtown, the sports arena will be demolished and replaced with a building designed by San Francisco-based Fong & Chan Architects.
Pre-application permits have been filed for a hotel-to-apartments conversion of Z-Hotel at 233 Broadway in Oakland’s waterfront Jack London District. The project would renovate the 105-guestroom hotel, with 24 more units to replace on-site parking. Baran Studio Architecture is responsible for the design.
New pre-application permits were filed for the entitled project at 2305 Webster Street in the Northgate-Waverly neighborhood between 23rd and 24th Street abutting Downtown Oakland. The recent application is larger than a previous iteration as it includes affordable housing thanks to the State Density bonus program. Avi Nevo of Segula Investments is responsible for the development, with San Francisco-based Ankrom Moisan Architects responsible for the design.