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Dyett & Bhatia has joined the City of Santa Clara in creating a downtown, the plan for which focuses on the “superblock” area adjacent to Santa Clara University, where the historical downtown once stood. The major factors driving the project are the desire of the City Council and the community to create a central place for people where they can shop, work, meet, and gather; stimulate economic revitalization in a way that supports existing businesses; add new businesses that meet resident and adjacent Santa Clara University’s employee/student needs and capture more local dollars that now go to businesses outside of Santa Clara; and manage traffic by locating mixed uses near transit, improvements patterns, and giving residents local choices to work, shop, and live.

The Downtown Area Plan seeks to balance the desire to create a high-intensity, mixed-use development, while respecting the scale of the established Old Quad neighborhood. The Plan includes roughly 400 residential units and 150,000 square feet of commercial and office development, where ground floor retail activity is focused along a new extension of Washington Street, and connected to both Franklin and Benton streets. A Preferred Option was completed by Dyett & Bhatia and unanimously endorsed by city Council in April 2005. As of summer 2007, the planning for the 7.3-acre site is in the process of developer solicitation.

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