PUBLIC COMMENT INVITED ON SUNNYVALE TOWN CENTER REDEVELOPMENT

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – The Forum Development Group of Atlanta is actively pursuing permits from the City to demolish Town Center Mall and to replace it with a traditional downtown, complete with an open-air, mixed-use shopping district. The City Council, seeking to provide ample opportunity for all residents and businesses to review and comment on the proposal, has asked the Planning Commission to work with the developer to hold two public outreach meetings before the plan is considered by the City at formal hearings. Those interested in learning more about the downtown redevelopment proposal should attend one of the following two meetings:

• Wednesday, April 7
  7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
  Sunnyvale Senior Center Orchard Pavilion
  550 E. Remington Drive
  
  
• Thursday, April 29
  7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
  Historic Del Monte Building
  100 S. Murphy Ave., 3rd Floor

The Forum plan preserves the independently-owned Macy’s and Target buildings, which remain open even though the mall is now closed. The shops between the two department stores would be demolished, and Murphy and McKinley Avenues would be extended through the project on their historic rights-of-way. Forum proposes to line the streets with a half-million square feet of new shops, a 16-screen cinema complex,
300 residential units and nearly 200,000 square feet of office space. More than 4,500 public parking spaces would be provided on the streets and in parking structures, some of which may be below ground. Central to the project is a new three-quarter-acre town square that preserves the six majestic redwood trees which have existed on the site since the old City Hall was constructed in the 1920s.

The April outreach meetings will provide the opportunity for the public to learn about the developer’s conceptual designs and to comment on them. The developer will then have time to adjust the designs to more closely align with community desires and expectations before formally presenting the project for City approvals.

Please check the City Web site, www.sunnyvale.ca.gov, or call project planner Kelly Diekmann at (408) 730-7659, TDD (408) 730-7501, to confirm the date and time of the formal hearings, which will be held in City Council Chambers. The public is encouraged to attend both an outreach meeting and the hearings. Only testimony presented at the hearings will become part of the public record.