Posted by Jessie Woodyard on Tue, Oct 06, 2009 @ 08:32 PM
Menlo Park is generally a pretty sleepy town but soon, it could be the newest home to Class A mixed-use office - a legacy property for David Bohannon and his family who have owned the site since the 1930s.
Gone are the days of pasture and grassland from the 30's; currently the site has 219,000 square feet of low-rise industrial buildings and depending on the outcome of the Menlo Park Planning Commission October 5, the site could be re-zoned from industrial to mixed-use office park.
According to the October 2 San Jose Business Journal article, The Menlo Gateway would encompass three, eight-story office buildings, an 11-story hotel, fitness center, restaurant, and two parking structures with a parking capacity of 2,300 total cars. They are also setting a goal of LEED Gold for the office and LEED Silver for the hotel, which is quite the precedent for Class A office and hotel on the Peninsula.
It will be a long-time coming, though. With the market where it currently resides, Bohannon commented that it would probably wait until 2011 to start construction.
To learn more, Bohannon has created a very high quality website dedicated to the project itself. To see it, Click Here.