‘Willow Park’ developer plans four towers, 665 apartments, a 130-room hotel
Willow Park mixed-use development, elevated view of multiple towers, at the site of the former Sunset Magazine complex at 80 Willow Road in Menlo Park, concept. A developer has submitted an application to Menlo Park with new renderings for its project at the former Sunset Magazine campus, showing plans for four buildings that will include 665 new housing units, a 130-room hotel, 324,000 square feet of office space, a Montessori school and nearly 5 acres of park and green space.
To get approval for its project, N17 is invoking an obscure provision of state law called the builder’s remedy, which allows developers to propose projects that exceed local zoning in cities that lack a state-approved housing element, so long as 20% of the homes in the development are deemed affordable. Menlo Park did not have an approved housing element between January 2023 and March 2024, allowing N17 to propose its initial plan in July 2023.
Those making 80% of the area median income in Menlo Park would hardly be considered “low-income” though. The median household income is $145,388 in San Mateo County, meaning that a household making an income of $116,304 could meet the threshold for one of the apartments.
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