Google details 8M-square-foot mixed-use project in San Jose, California
Dive Brief:
- Google’s options for a enormous combined-use project in San Jose, California, arrived into clearer concentrate this week as the metropolis introduced hundreds of internet pages of documents detailing the tech giant’s proposal.
- In the is effective for far more than 3 yrs, the Downtown West Blended-Use Prepare will create eighty one acres in downtown San Jose into a transit-oriented place consisting of new workplace house, housing and open up house.
- Though the coronavirus pandemic delayed the project critique and related outreach by a handful of months, the options introduced this week will help more community enter and allow for metropolis officials to complete the critique method, putting the project on keep track of to access the metropolis council for feasible acceptance in Spring 2021, according to San Jose officials.
Dive Perception:
Google’s revised project proposal features:
- Up to seven.three million square feet of workplace house.
- 4,000 models of new housing.
- Up to 500,000 square feet for retail, tradition and arts areas.
- one hundred,000 square feet of occasion house, hotel rooms (up to three hundred), and limited-time period company accommodations (up to 800 rooms).
- 15 acres of parks and open up house.
Extra than 50 percent of the Downtown West project will be allocated for household and community house and involve characteristics this sort of as childcare centers, outdoor finding out centers and ecological viewing stations, claimed Alexa Arena, Google’s district direct for San Jose in a video.
The style “leans intensely on the want for people to have entry to character even in centre cities,” she claimed. “We believe this is critically vital to assist people reside wholesome and resilient life.”
Australia-primarily based contractor Lendlease will deliver learn preparing, entitlement and enhancement companies for the project, as portion of the contractor’s $15 billion deal with Google to create 15 million square feet of household, retail, hospitality and other tasks in the San Francisco Bay Place.
The partnership with Lendlease is portion of Google’s commitment to develop 20,000 households in Silicon Valley to assist relieve the persistent lack of housing in the place.
As a result of 3 yrs of community conferences and informational fairs, the metropolis and Google have solicited community enter. This feedback aided shape the final style, Arena claimed.
Google also introduced a checklist of the style and engineering firms performing on the project. They are:
- SITELAB urban studio: urban style
- Heatherwick Studio: architecture
- Grimshaw Architects: architecture
- Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF): architecture
- Fougeron Architecture: architecture
- Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB): architecture
- Shop Architects: Architecture
- Sherwood Design Engineers: civil and infrastructure
- HMH Engineers: civil
