Kilroy Constructing Additional Half Million SF of Office Space

SAN FRANCISCO-Kilroy Realty Corporation will boost its Bay Area construction pipeline to more than 1.8 million square feet with new office-project starts in downtown Redwood City and the brick and timber commercial neighborhood of Brannan Street in the city’s booming SOMA district. More than 1.3 million square feet of the company’s Bay Area construction pipeline is pre-leased.

Crossing/900. As reported Monday at GlobeSt., KRC held a groundbreaking ceremony last week for this two-building, mid-rise office campus located in Redwood City’s increasingly urbanized downtown area. The new 300,000-square-foot project is steps away from the city’s Caltrain station and conveniently close to the two major freeways serving the region and San Francisco International Airport. It is also within walking distance of abundant retail, dining and entertainment amenities as well as over a thousand residential units under construction. The project, designed by Korth Sunseri Hagey, represents a key component in the city’s plan to attract new businesses and residents to the downtown area and expand its role as a major employment and residential hub in the Silicon Valley. Crossing/900 is a LEED Gold certified development project that will feature large open floor plates, forward-looking designs, outdoor plaza areas, abundant parking and up-sized base building features thereby allowing greater densities that are highly desirable among today’s modern workforce. “The project will serve the burgeoning knowledge-based industries in this region that currently has very limited options for new office space, especially near Caltrain,” said Mike Sanford, KRC’s SVP, Northern California. KRC expects to complete construction on the project in 2015.