The severe lack of housing supply along the San Mateo Peninsula’s booming Highway 101 corridor led The Cherrybrook Group to the vision of assembling 8 separate properties into a comprehensive 33 acre master planned community. After completing a rigorous specific plan process through the City of East Palo Alto’s Redevelopment Agency, The Cherrybrook Group obtained final approvals for 217 single-family homes, 129 apartment homes, a 2.5-acre public park and a 50-child daycare center on the lands of former commercial plant nurseries.
Complex issues relating to site demolition and clean up, provision of affordable housing in both the homes and apartments and upgrades to a neglected infrastructure system were solved. The project established a new benchmark for the emerging City of East Palo Alto both in terms of a tax basis, market viability and a place to be proud to live.