Plans to turn the old Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino into a giant mixed-use development were met with much push back from community members, The Mercury News reports. But now the development, which will consist of 2,402 apartments, 400,000 square feet of retail, and 1.8 million square feet of office space, has been cleared by a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge.
According to Mercury News, J.R. Fruen, co-founder of the housing advocacy group Cupertino 4 All said, "This is a gigantic win for housing advocates specifically, and a huge win for proponents of development in general."
The developer Sand Hill Property Company initiated a design competition to design the new project and ultimately selected New York-based Rafael Viñoly Architects and Philadelphia-based OLIN Partnership Landscape Architects.
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Towers in the Park is back baby
this looks like a mediocre student project from a bottom-tier school focused on 'anti-starchitecture'. anyway, apartments is apartments, can't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre.
Its not that bad, if it gets built this way. Have you seen Cupertino with its suburban junk (and the Apple Campus)
no. and i agree it's not that bad. it's just totally mediocre despite the scale of this opportunity and prominent designers. better than doing nothing though.
Vinoly. Great. More layer cake, anyone?
Design aside, I'm really curious why this project will succeed in retail when the Vallco Mall grandly failed. It lost its anchors and small stores and became a ghost mall. Only the theaters drew a crowd. Will 2400 apartments times x residents make that much of a difference? Or the grass?
Related, I'm also curious whether, in general, mixed-use is a successful or relevant scheme.
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