[CPEO-BIF] Related Companies' huge Santa Clara, California project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

First concept renderings of Related Companies' huge Santa Clara project


by Nathan Donato-Weinstein
Silicon Valley Business Journal (CA)
June 17, 2015

For nearly two years, the Related Companies has been talking about building a "city center" in Santa Clara - a place that famously lacks such a thing. Yet the New York-based developer has held its vision fairly close to the vest.

On Tuesday, we finally began to get a glimpse of what this truly massive endeavor might actually look like.

Related executive Steve Eimer showed the most detailed concept images yet of the project's most important piece -= a dense, mixed-use project called City Place that would include more than 1 million square feet of retail, plus office, hotel, entertainment and (Related hopes) residential. The presentation came before the city unanimously approved some new term sheets laying out a financial deal with Related, which I detailed this week here.

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Related also hopes to gain approval for nearly 1,400 residential units, but regulations on building homes on top of landfill are tricky. Related says the project pencils either way, but strongly prefers the ability to integrate housing into the mix.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/06/17/first-concept-renderings-of-related-companies-huge.html

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Lenny Siegel
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