Santana Row set to expand with 108 new residential units
Santana Row set to expand with 108 new residential units
It seems the consumerist urban idyll that is Santana Row is proving popular, as the developer of the San Jose shopping mecca with housing attached has announced it has begun construction on 108 new residential units.
According to Federal Realty Investment Trust, 97% of Santana Row’s rental units are leased, demand for more is strong, and the new homes will bring the total number of residential units at Santana Row to 622.
The new four-story building will be located behind Anthropologie and Borders Books and is expected to be completed by late summer 2011. The new units will consist of 98 flats, ranging in size from 750 sq ft to nearly 1,600 sq ft, and a row of 10 four-story townhomes. There will be subterranean parking with 160 spaces, a business center, entertainment lounge and fitness center.
Congrats to Santana Row on its amazing success! This is further proof that San Jose is on its way to overtake San Francisco… and eventually Manhattan… as the coolest place in America.
Paris? London? Tokyo? Hong Kong? Yeah… you’d better watch it. ‘cuz Santana Row is coming to get you!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am
Awesome, now there won’t be enough parking on weeknights either!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:41 am
108 residential units, 160 parking spaces. Does anyone else see a problem?
Everyone high-density project I’ve ever visited has parking problems. This one has them designed right in.
Hello? The only residential units that should get 1 rather than 2 parking spaces should be studios. Four-story townhouses? Yeah, every single one of them occupied by only one person with a vehicle. Seriously, wtf?
I’m thinking of some townhouse (excuse me, sideways tenements) complexes in Cupertino off DeAnza, where every single speck of parking is full, including on the street. I have to walk a block and a half TO the complex, plus finding the place within it. Imagine the fun the “second vehicle” goes through returning home after a long day of joyless wage-slavery.
You are truly better off with a crapbox SFH than one of these hamster mazes. Human Habitrail, thy name is High Density Infill Housing.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:53 am
I guess I saw the problem two minutes before you.
But reconsider – if you live in Santana Row, why would you ever have to leave? Retail, restaurants… dang, no jobs that pay well enough for Santana Row rent.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:11 am
madhaus,
This is Silicon Valley, where land doesn’t grow on trees. In order to create more parking, the developer will have to charge more for the units, which means more people will be priced out forever. That’s a worse scenario.
If you want parking, go buy a house.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:21 am
nomadic, I saw the problem before you did. It just took me longer to type it out on this mobile device. Your using fewer words gave you the pleasure of being on top.
#4: Read my last graf in #2. Read it again until you understand why your last post was at best useless.
May 1st, 2010 at 4:32 pm
madhaus, It is hard not to agree with you in this case.
I saw the rents were $3200 for a 2 BR TH and $4400 for a 3 BR TH. After paying so much you still have to struggle for parking. I would agree that renting a crapbox SFH sounds a lot better.
But then most RBA resident would say I am old school. All this high cost and parking gripes are a thing of the past. The “New Economy” is all about connectivity. Having your restaurant connected to your house means you are better connected…
May 1st, 2010 at 4:54 pm
No prob. Residents will just take the train and light rail. There’s a train and light rail, right?
May 1st, 2010 at 5:15 pm
CB,
And high speed rail is coming.
May 1st, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Train? Light rail? What do you think this is, a real city? Take the damned bus.
May 1st, 2010 at 6:20 pm
You Web1.0 peeps are behind the times. Who needs parking? Here at Santana Row, we use the latest technology. Every home is equipped with several transporters. Beam me up, Scotty!
And while you’re at it, remember to beam the redhead and Asian too!
May 1st, 2010 at 8:14 pm
see, madhaus? You use more words and people agree with you. Besides, you zeroed in on the PITA aspect of the resident searching for a place to park when they get home. I was alluding more to the current parking spaces that will be replaced by housing, making it a PITA for anyone who wants to go there for dinner or a little shopping.
May 1st, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Sorry, nomadic, I can’t write a lot of words now. I have a hot date with an Asian and some dude with a transporter.
May 2nd, 2010 at 12:21 am
Not that it solves any problem, but I assume the 10 townhouses will have their own parking (2-car garage most likely).
<sarcasm>Santana row rules!</sarcasm>
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 am
madhaus, enjoy your date. I hope you get luck and experience “the pleasure of being on top”
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 am
madhaus says,
>>I have a hot date with an Asian and some dude with a transporter.
Is the Asian in question a dude or a gal?
May 2nd, 2010 at 6:09 pm
steve, thanks for your good wishes! Unfortunately, last night was a huge letdown.
The transformer was really a Wii with a Netflix disk, so I had to drive there. Then I couldn’t find a parking place.
I heard the Asian gave up and went across Winchester to Century 22 and watched Date Night.