Site of Planned 196-Unit Housing Project up for Sale
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Winslow Staff Writer/[email protected] s Los Altos Hills resi- dent Barry Smith sees Ait, California residents must “flip” three or four State PHOTOS BY SHELLY BOWERS/SPECIAL TO THE TOWN CRIER Assemblymembers to success- Children master the art of bubble wanding, left, and fully quash Senate Bills 9 and take a shot at soccer, above, July 7 at Cuesta Park in 10, two controversial pieces of Mountain View during the first in a series of summer proposed legislation the State pop-up parks. The free events are offered Wednes- Senate passed earlier this year days and will rotate among the city’s parks. For as part of an effort to address more information, visit mountainview.gov. the housing crisis . Flipping Assemblymember Marc Berman, who represents Site of planned 196-unit housing project up for sale Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View and other parts By Bruce Barton The former property owner, of District 24, is a local respon- Staff Writer/[email protected] Dutchints Development LLC sibility, Smith said, prepping op- of Los Altos, lost the property ponents of the bills just before he 5150 El Camino Real in receivership after defaulting Berman joined an online town property in Los Altos, on a $41 million loan . Investors forum they requested he partici- Tsite of an approved high- convinced a Santa Clara County pate in last week . density housing project, is up Superior Court judge June 24 “Send the one or two or three for sale again after going into to stay foreclosure for 90 days . questions you have, call his of- receivership . Dutchints is mired in multiple fice, and let him know that we’re According to newly pub- lawsuits alleging misappropria- not going away,” said Smith, a lished real estate information tion and mismanagement of in- member of United Neighbors of online, Borelli Investment Co . of vestor funds . Assembly District 24 . San Jose is the listing broker on The site, where a 76,500- Los Altos activist Fred- the 3 8. -acre property, which has square-foot office complex cur- die Park Wheeler assumed the an asking price of $60 million . rently sits, is approved for a 196- role of de facto spokesperson A court confirmation hearing is ZOE MORGAN/TOWN CRIER FILE PHOTO unit housing project . Approved for United Neighbors, Hills The Los Altos City Council approved a 196-unit housing project at scheduled Sept . 9 . by the Los Altos City Council 2000-Friends of the Hills, Palo 5150 El Camino Real, above, which is set to be sold to a new buyer. “There is a highly qualified in 2019, the project includes 172 Altans for Sensible Zoning and buyer and an accepted letter of til Aug . 12 to produce a deposit mental amounts of $1 million . A condominiums in two five-story other entities throughout the July intent,” chairman Ralph Borelli and then would proceed with the judge decides on the buyer, and buildings and 24 townhouses in 6 virtual meeting . She alternated said last week . “A purchase and court confirmation hearing . The payment for the property must two three-story complexes . Also between quizzing Berman about sale agreement is being drafted . hearing will include an overbid close within 10 days . included in project approvals are his knowledge of the bills and We’re accepting backup offers ”. process, in which other prospec- “This is attracting a lot of at- 28 units (12 moderate income urging him to vote against them . The prospective buyer has un- tive buyers can overbid in incre- tention,” Borelli said . 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