The Santa Clara City Council on Tuesday night planned to consider a set of guidelines linking two large proposed developments next to the planned Levi's Stadium, including one by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana.
The city manager's office has asked the council to regard the two mixed use plans, Montana's 8.4-acre Centennial Gateway proposal and Related California's 215-acre City Place project, as a single development, city spokesman Dan Beerman said.
Both proposals would be located across Tasman Drive in Santa Clara from the planned Levi's Stadium that is to open late next summer, but the Montana and Related projects are only "in the early stages" of the approval process, Beerman said.
The council will be thinking about approving the city manager's guidelines for joining the two projects "to give the whole thing a cohesiveness to make sure the designs are similar," Beerman said.
An architect had been hired to present designs for streets, signages, lighting, sidewalks at least 30 feet wide and other pedestrian friendly and "branding" aspects that the two projects would share on Tasman and Centennial Boulevard, Beerman said.
Montana would like to develop land on Tasman, directly across from Levi's Stadium, with two hotels, one with 7 floors and 200 rooms and a second with 11 floors and 125 rooms, according to the proposal by his company Montana Property Group and his partner, Los Angeles developer Lowe Enterprises.
Montana's proposal would also have retail, restaurant and office space in a series of buildings along Tasman for a total more than 780,000 square feet.
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Concepts that Montana and Related have submitted to the city to serve as examples of what they have in mind include photos of San Francisco's AT&T Park and San Jose's Santana Row shopping mall.
But Montana, at the council meeting tonight, is requesting what would be a third extension on the exclusive negotiating rights agreement on the project site he has with the city.
His current pact expires on Dec. 26, and he has asked for a 30-day extension to Jan. 27 to discuss another extension period, according to the council agenda's staff report.
The former 49ers player and the city first signed an exclusive development rights agreement on June 26, 2012, and then the city granted him an extension on June 18.
Montana's San Jose attorney Robert Mezzetti could not be reached for comment.
Related California's City Place would replace the Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Club behind Montana's project, at 5155 Stars and Stripes Drive, with 5.2 million square feet of retail, entertainment, office, hotel and residential uses.
Related would build a 200-room hotel, 10 office buildings, a 2-floor retail, food and beverage complex of 1.4 million square feet, as well as three residential buildings with 530 units and two additional office buildings with 240 dwelling units.
Beerman described the Related project as "a city within a city type of thing, with lots of retail space, a living-working kind of thing."
