Dive Brief:

• Related California has submitted plans to the City of Santa Clara for a mixed-use, multi-block project that essentially create a new downtown.
• The company proposes 1.5 million square feet of retail space, 2.4 million square feet of other space for commercial use, about 530 units of housing units and a hotel facility.
• The mayor, Jamie Matthews, is a supporter as the proposal goes to the Santa Clara Sports and Open Space Authority.

Dive Insight:

In a different case, downtown might have come first, but the Related proposal would create a city center after the new Levi's Stadium football facility just to the south, the city convention center and the the Great America theme park. The mayor says Santa Clara has been missing a downtown since the 1960s, and city residents "have longed for a city center.”