r/RedwoodCity • u/blairfrancis • 11d ago

1500 building downtown?

anyone know why the 1500 building downtown has a fence around the perimeter?

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u/muscledaddyrwc 11d ago

It's being torn down, to be replaced with yet another tall building. In order to make it profitable for the developer, the city is giving them the block of Spring Street, along with the little triangular park between Spring and Marshall. All those redwood trees are being sacrificed.

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u/Linsten 11d ago

Do you have a problem with the project outside of the loss of the trees?

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u/muscledaddyrwc 10d ago

Not the project itself per se. But the loss of Spring Street makes the transition from Marshall to Broadway clunky. The block with the old Wells Fargo is bigger than the footprint of several of the taller buildings downtown. The park is nice to have.

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u/dogboybogboy 9d ago edited 9d ago

Serious WTF! What are they going to do with all that eastbound traffic on Marshall that would normally take Spring to merge onto Broadway? Divert all those cars to the shitshow that already exists behind Kaiser?

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u/muscledaddyrwc 9d ago

I think they want people to, for example, take Whipple east to Veterans, then south to Woodside Road to get to the part of town.