Sunnyvale Celebrates Opening Of Affordable Housing, Meridian
The City of Sunnyvale celebrated the official opening of a new affordable housing complex at 397 South Mathilda Avenue, Meridian. The Santa Clara County town worked with Related California to start construction on the development in March 2022. The developer has now finished the site with 90 homes, public amenities and landscaped open space.
According to San Francisco YIMBY, The development has created nearly 125,000 square feet of housing on the 1.4-acre site. Of the 90 units, there are 83 apartments in the 48-foot-tall structure along the Mathilda Avenue thoroughfare and seven two-story townhomes facing Charles Street. Apartment types will vary, with 12 studios, 32 one-bedrooms, 23 two-bedrooms, and 16 three-bedrooms.
The affordable housing will range from 30% to 80% of the Area Median Income, or AMI, with 23 apartments for 30% AMI prioritizing people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Studio prices will range from $1,515 to $1,827 per month, with three bedrooms costing $2,227 to $3,619 monthly. The resident amenities will include a community room with a kitchen, a computer room, an outdoor courtyard, and underground parking for 93 vehicles.
Steinberg Hart is the project architect, with Spurlock responsible for the landscape design. Steinberg Hart’s description of Meridian emphasizes the site’s role as a gateway between a suburban neighborhood and Downtown Sunnyvale. In a statement, the firm describes that the complex will have “public-facing amenity and open spaces, street-facing townhomes, and porous visual connections into the residential courtyards.” An important distinction is ‘visual’ connects, as the landscaped paseo which runs diagonally from the corner of Mathilda and Iowa Avenue with Charles Street, furnished with outdoor seating, is not publicly accessible.