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PLN2-0167 - 200 Wind River Way - Applicant: Blue Rise Ventures, LLC. - Public workshop on Development Plan Amendment and Design Review for an approximately 120,000 square foot life sciences building and Bay Trail improvements. Public workshop to discuss a proposed 120,000 sf, three-story life science building located at the intersection of Clement Avenue and Sherman Street on the existing Wind River Campus. CEQA Determination: The project is subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act. No final action on the environmental review, Development Plan, or Design Review will take place at this meeting
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To: Honorable President and Members of the Planning Board
From: Steven Buckley, Planning Board Secretary
BACKGROUND
The Wind River campus development was originally approved as five office buildings in 1997. Only four of the buildings were constructed. Blue Rise Ventures is the current owner of the former Wind River campus and The Research Park at Marina Village. Blue Rise Ventures has been taking advantage of the strong demand for life science (bio-tech) space, retrofitting existing office spaces for mixed laboratory and office space to support this increasingly important sector. To date, approximately 600,000 square feet of the existing business park has been converted to high-quality research and development laboratory space. For the past two years, in consultation with City staff and BCDC staff, Blue Rise has been preparing plans for the fifth building at 200 Wind River Way in a new location adjacent to the new intersection at Sherman Street, Clement Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue.
DISCUSSION
Blue Rise Ventures is proposing a new three-story, 120,000 square foot life science building on an existing parking lot at the southeast corner of the existing Wind River campus (Exhibit 1 - Plans). When the Wind River project was approved in 1997, there was no street frontage in this location. The relatively recent completion of the Del Monte wa...
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