After more than a year of reviews and design tweaks, Kaiser Permanente was approved by the Redwood City Planning Commission to build a 197,800-square-foot medical office building within its downtown campus at a meeting Tuesday.
Featuring 143 doctors’ offices and 116 exam rooms, the four-story building at 1175 Marshall St. with three levels of underground parking will join a hospital and other medical buildings on the health care provider’s campus just southeast of the downtown, according to project plans and a staff report.
Once the new building at the corner of Maple and Marshall streets is complete, two existing office buildings on the campus will be demolished to make way for open space and a surface parking lot, according to a staff report.
Over an acre of open space will occupy the center of the Kaiser campus, which will include a children’s playground and farmers’ market, and there will also be open spaces for employees along Marshall Court, in front of the drop-off area and on a rooftop terrace, according to the report.
Street improvements outlined in the report include a wider sidewalk on Maple Street, which will feature trees and bikes lanes, and two crosswalks will be installed on Maple Street, along with corner bulbouts and a flashing beacon. One crosswalk will feature a median pedestrian refuge island, and the patient drop off has also moved inside the campus, away from Maple Street traffic, according to the report.
As for the building’s architecture, several modifications were made to the Maple Street facade to add depth and dimension, including a metal canopy designed to create a continuous line of windows spanning the building’s corner entrance at the intersection of Maple and Marshall streets, according to the report.
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The 1175 Marshall St. building is the latest addition to Kaiser’s downtown campus, which was initially conceived in the Kaiser Precise Plan, adopted in 2003. The first phase of construction included the new hospital building located at the southeast corner of Walnut Street and Veterans Boulevard, which was completed in early 2015.
The 1175 Marshall St. building underwent two reviews by the city’s Architectural Advisory Committee in March and November of last year. The committee recommended approval of the project at the November review, with several modifications that have been included in the latest version of the plan.
“One of the biggest concerns is that Veterans Boulevard is a gateway to Redwood City and it was extremely important that a building that was going to be there reflected that,” said Commissioner Ernie Schmidt. “You accomplished that.”
LARGEST EMPLOYERS IN THE BAY AREA OF 2016 Ranked: Total Bay Area Employees 1 Kaiser Permanente www.kp.org 30,350 2 City & County of SF www.sf.gov.org 27,667 3 University of California, Berkeley www.berkeley.edu 26,829 4 University of California, SF www.ucsf.edu 21,120 5 State of California www.ca.gov 15,482
Gee, wheh the "new and improved" Redwood City is completed, not only will light not reach the ground because of all the high rises, but there will be no place to park, and it will be impossible to drive anywhere within a reasonable time frame. Sounds like Utopia to me. Of course when the tech economy turns Redwood City will be a ghost town and it will be easy to get around.
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LARGEST EMPLOYERS IN THE BAY AREA OF 2016 Ranked:
Total Bay Area Employees
1 Kaiser Permanente www.kp.org 30,350
2 City & County of SF www.sf.gov.org 27,667
3 University of California, Berkeley www.berkeley.edu 26,829
4 University of California, SF www.ucsf.edu 21,120
5 State of California www.ca.gov 15,482
Gee, wheh the "new and improved" Redwood City is completed, not only will light not reach the ground because of all the high rises, but there will be no place to park, and it will be impossible to drive anywhere within a reasonable time frame. Sounds like Utopia to me. Of course when the tech economy turns Redwood City will be a ghost town and it will be easy to get around.
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