A long-awaited Santa Clara housing development is already welcoming hundreds of residents, and the developers are just getting started.
Holland Partner Group, in collaboration with developer Hunter Storm and architect firm MVE + Partners, has completed 725 homes as part of the first phase of the Gateway Crossings project off Coleman Avenue. The two finished 7-story apartment buildings are valued at $290 million and offer 14,958 square feet of retail space, according to the development team. The development, located at 1200 Rickabaugh Way and 350 Chastain Place, includes 73 affordable apartments and frames a 2-acre public park.
The first phase has already started leasing, with one building mostly full, according to the development team.
The project is part of a larger 23.8-acre development slated to add 1,565 homes and a 225-room hotel once finished. The new neighborhood will sit along the border of Santa Clara and San Jose near the anticipated South Bay BART expansion. The next phases will include the hotel and remaining 840 apartments, 126 of which will be affordable. The Gateway Crossings project is expected to be completed by over the coming years.
Alden Smith, Holland Partner Group development manager, said the first phase jumpstarts a transit-oriented community within walking distance of Santa Clara University and Caltrain.
“We are thrilled to see the project warmly received by residents, visitors and the surrounding community,” he told San José Spotlight. “Phase one of Gateway Crossings lays the foundation for a new neighborhood that will continue to improve as future phases are built out.”
The development will add to Santa Clara’s state mandate to build 11,632 homes by 2031, 6,056 of which must be affordable. It also adds to the city’s portfolio of large housing developments. Santa Clara has 1,782 apartments slated for Mission College Boulevard and a 240-acre mixed-use Related Companies project planned across from Levi’s Stadium.
District 2 Councilmember Raj Chahal, who represents the area where the project is located, said he’s all for adding more housing to his corner of the community to help with the affordability crisis and stabilize the rental market. He said the area has potential because it’s close to PayPal Park and many office complexes.
“This area is ripe for housing development,” Chahal told San José Spotlight. “This should set up a trend.”
Gateway Crossings was first proposed in 2018, and has gone through multiple changes since the Santa Clara City Council approved it in 2019. The development team originally planned to include the hotel in the first phase, but delayed it due to the pandemic. The team also increased affordable housing in the second phase from 84 apartments to 126.
Residents such as Mike Walke have anticipated the development for years. The Santa Clara Police Activities League, where Walke is board president, will soon be able to call a 7,600-square-foot community room home for the league’s indoor sports such as judo and boxing.
Walke said the sports are currently spread out across the city. The community room will give the group a central location.
He said the new space will save the league thousands of dollars in rental fees because it only has to pay $1 a month at Gateway Crossings. Walke aims to have the new space open next year after clearing permits with the city, adding it will be a facility athletes can be proud of.
“We can actually hold the tournaments right here in our city,” he told San José Spotlight. “It gets the city of Santa Clara to (be at) the front of the various sports we’re going to do there.”
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