Waitakere CityDeadline sale closes 27 May 2025 15:003296m²115m²Freehold Luxury Home with 10 Yea...Deadline sale: Closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025 at 3:00PM (unless sold prior) sun-drenched weatherboard home in the heart of Sunnyvale—a premium quality townhouse with three sides open to natural light Thoughtfully designed by award-nominated KMB Construction Ltd it’s a statement in modern living in a great location enjoy natural light streaming in from three sides for a warm The heart of the home features a chef-inspired kitchen complete with state-of-the-art LED lighting and ample workspace for everyday cooking or entertaining in style • 2.5 Bathrooms including a Master Ensuite and semi-ensuite • TV and Ethernet provision in the Lounge and Master for seamless streaming and connectivity • Premium 8mm Hybrid SPC flooring in lounge • Quality Solution dyed carpet in bedrooms • Designer lighting including elegant LED ceiling • Brazilian hardwood timber deck for quality outdoor living • All-the-way-to-the-floor windows for light and visual impact • High-end Elementi bathroom ware and finishes throughout • 2 x Heat Pumps for year-round climate control • Sensor lights for convenience and security • On-street parking directly in front of the home for easy access specialists in premium homes for over 16 years and Master Builder Award nominees this home comes with the peace of mind of a 10-Year Master Build Guarantee • Situated in a quiet cul-de-sac with on-street parking space • Walking distance to Sunnyvale Train Station( 250m) and bus stop ( 100 m) shopping mall and all the lifestyle amenities West Auckland has to offer and enjoy the best of the new build living in a top spot I live a minute away so call now to view today See this listing on Barfoot & Thompson based on a borrower’s individual credit assessment.Canstar's Most Awarded Personal LoanGet a renovation loan up to $70K and bring your vision to life we can approve your home improvement loan quickly and get your renovation started Come along and show some love to the Waari Stream in Sunnyvale care for the native plantings from last year and prepare the area for more planting this winter Be a part of transforming this stream into a thriving awa that flows well in changeable weather is more resilient in heavy rain and drought We'll finish with refreshments at the end - feel free to bring a plate to share if you like (optional) Kids must be accompanied by supervising adults Questions? 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Waitakere CityPrice By Negotiation3296m²96m²Brand New 3 Beds In Sunnyvale!This brand new three bedroom home offers modern comfort and convenience in a sought-after location the property is perfectly suited for first-time homeowners seeking a move-in-ready space or investors looking to capitalize on strong rental demand Step inside to discover a thoughtfully designed layout The master bedroom serves as a private retreat complete with an ensuite bathroom for added luxury and convenience share access to a well-appointed modern family bathroom ensuring comfort for family members or tenants practicality meets style with a dedicated laundry room and a guest toilet providing functionality for daily living and entertaining The heart of the home is the spacious kitchen outfitted with high-quality appliances and ample storage making it ideal for home cooks and social gatherings a private front yard offers a serene space to relax or host guests adding charm and versatility to this modern property the home is just moments from public transport links Contact Team Fiona Li today for a private viewing or visit our open homes to secure your new home *Property particulars have been obtained by a third party By: 5:30 am on May 3 The 75-foot-tall apartment complex is expected to create 162 apartments alongside 80 townhomes Parking will be included for 281 cars and 212 bicycles Oakland-based Studio T Square is responsible for the design The latest renderings show the podium apartment complex conforming to the triangular parcel The exterior will be clad with a mix of exterior plaster The 5.24-acre property is located along Sunnyvale Saratoga Road Future residents will be close to several large big-box strip malls anchored by grocery stores The Sunnyvale Caltrain Station is less than ten minutes away by bicycle or bus The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared Subscribe to YIMBY’s daily e-mail Follow YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates Like YIMBY on Facebook Follow YIMBY’s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews Here’s a great model for the South Bay for these huge retail+parking lots: – Demolish everything – Ground/First Floor is retail and parking for that retail in a garage – Second floor is a parking garage for residents It’s sad that even these dense developments will be consigned to car dependency Hopefully South Bay will eventually realize they picked the wrong transit modality and start building proper public transit At least increasing density is a step in the right direction it still makes sense to drive a car for the majority of trips because public transit is not there ga('send', 'event', ‘Robert ‘Becker, 'Impression', 'https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/desktop-ad.jpg', { nonInteraction: true }); 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A year earlier, the firm spent $16 million on on four sites in Milpitas, Campbell and San Jose— Dana Bartholomew Waitakere CityBy negotiation8,273m²Build Your Dream Home with Bush ViewsWelcome to 0.82 hectares of prime land – a serene escape surrounded by lush greenery and stunning bush views Imagine immersing yourself in the tranquility of this expansive property Should you be actively seeking a peaceful country retreat or perhaps haven't yet realized you would like one then this property could well be your next pride and joy This picturesque lot offers all the space you need with 0.82 hectares ready to bring your vision to life Whether you’re dreaming of building your ideal home or planning an exciting investment A concrete driveway already in place adds to the convenience this property is conveniently located close to shops ensuring that city conveniences are never far away Don’t miss your chance to secure this beautiful site Please get in contact for more information or to book your viewing today See this listing on Barfoot & Thompson By: 4:30 am on April 29 In addition to representatives from El Camino Health the event also drew notable speakers and attendees such as Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Kline and several health board members The turnout is indicative of the development’s scale with proposed usages that will address multiple crucial needs for the city The new development is part of the larger El Camino Area Plan to redevelop the commercial corridor along El Camino The mixed-use designation of the project is in line with the plan’s goal of creating a higher density of housing and services along the transit-heavy region of the city El Camino Real Corridor Plan Map with 1027 El Camino Real Marked in Red This most recent expansion of El Camino Health will add to the facilities they currently operate in Los Gatos The range of services provided by the other nearby centers will help to support the needs of residents and patients in both the senior housing and the 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That same week, $825 million in funding from the Act was awarded to NY Creates to establish an NSTC EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) Accelerator in Albany and dynamic semiconductor ecosystem,” said Deirdre Hanford “Surrounded by established companies and innovative startups leading research and academic institutions and stakeholders from across the semiconductor value chain the CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility in Sunnyvale will encourage and enable NSTC members to work together to address some of the most complex challenges we face as a nation and a world today.” The $280bn CHIPS and Science Act, was approved by Congress in July 2022 with $52bn of the overall funding package designated as subsidies for US semiconductor manufacturers Funding from the act has also been earmarked for semiconductor R&D and incentives for manufacturing chips and specialized tooling equipment Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump criticized the CHIPS and Science Act during a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan saying that the government should have levied tariffs on the semiconductor industry instead of handing out grants and loans to chip companies Following that interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the Republican party “probably will” try to repeal the US CHIPS Act claiming he meant to say the party would instead “further streamline and improve the primary purpose of the bill - to eliminate its costly regulations and Green New Deal requirements.” Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. 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Best Version Media, LLC. clinching four medals and helping her team secure third place She earned silver in both the high jump (5'7") and long jump (18'8½") along with victories in the 100 meter hurdles (13.42 seconds) and 300 hurdles (41.96 seconds) Fellow competitor Arianna Jefferson also shined winning gold in the long jump (19'9¼") and triple jump (40'8") Defending champion Jalen Lott of Frisco Panther Creek took silver in both the high jump (6'10") and long jump (23'7¼") there is a strong potential for future improvements and successes at upcoming meets Jalen Lott aims to reclaim his long jump title next year while Enyinna-Okeigbo and Jefferson will seek to build on their recent successes the development of youth track programs could enhance overall performance in the Dallas area Chiora Enyinna-Okeigbo's remarkable performance underscores the rising talent in Dallas-area high school track highlighting the importance of resilience and determination in sport As competitors continue to push their limits the upcoming years promise even greater achievements The summary of the linked article was generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence technology from OpenAI We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it OK Privacy policy the much-anticipated Bay Area debut restaurant from multi-hyphenate chef and food-world celebrity Stephanie Izard will open its doors in Sunnyvale on March 31 (The name Izard comes from a mountaingoat in the French Pyranees Valley Goat, as we first learned last fall, is opening in the new Treehouse Hotel in Sunnyvale which has just recently opened on the former Sheraton property on North Mathilda Avenue and the kitchen is anchored by a Josper grill — an enclosed grill that cooks at high temperatures and partially acts as a smoker New dishes that don't appear on other Goat restaurant menus include a dish of wood-fired eggplant with tahini carrot hummus and tzatziki; and some pork belly noodles with wood-fired pineapple You can see the full food and beverage menu here Goat makes its way onto this menu only in some goat empanadas Other smaller plates include Izard's signature grilled oysters with sausage butter and her chickpea fritters with goat yogurt and herb chutney There are only three dishes listed as "Bigger Plates," and those are a whole wood-fired branzino with Thai sweet and sour sauce and pickled vegetables; a "sticky pork shank" with pickled cucumber salad; and the aforementioned wood-fired eggplant featuring fish-sauce brine and Monkey 47 gin; and a mezcal mule featuring passionfruit and Cynar An Old Fashioned variant called the Goat Fashion The reservation books are now open for Valley Goat, which will serve lunch and dinner starting Monday, March 31 — see the lunch menu here And the Sunnyvale Treehouse Hotel also features a Backyard Cafe who after Top Chef also achieved the title of Iron Chef on Iron Chef Gauntlet and Iron Chef America is a fixture these days on the Food Network appearing as both a competitor and a judge on shows like Guy's Grocery Games she was unfortunately knocked out in the first round by chef Michael Reed she also became a James Beard Award winner taking home the award for Best Chef: Great Lakes Previously: Celebrity Chef Stephanie Izard Opening New South Bay Restaurant, Valley Goat Top image: Photo by Nick Podraza for Boka Restaurant Group cult-like group with Bay Area origins who are currently in police custody for a series of seemingly linked crimes made another court appearance on Wednesday A 22-year-old woman stands accused for her alleged role in an organized theft ring that plucked a total of $56,000 in merchandise from local Sephora and high-end sunglasses shops and was on supervised release at the time of the thefts Get the latest posts delivered right to your inbox Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years Get all the latest & greatest posts delivered straight to your inbox TrendingCommercialSan FranciscoALinkedIn pays $75M for another Sunnyvale office Social networking firm added R&D property to growing local hub LinkedIn bought a 120,000-square-foot office building near its headquarters in Sunnyvale for $75 million The professional social networking firm purchased the two-story research building at 1022 West Maude Avenue, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported The deal works out to $625 per square foot is a short stroll to LinkedIn’s headquarters at 1000 West Maude Avenue and part of its growing portfolio of offices in and around its Sunnyvale hub LinkedIn’s push down Maude Avenue began in 2021 SIGN UPThe purchase four years ago resulted from a 2016 land swap with Google where LinkedIn assumed two of Google’s leases on Maude Avenue and bought 28 acres from it in Mountain View In return, Google got 10 acres and assumed one of LinkedIn’s leases at Mountain View’s Britannia Shoreline Technology Park, an office complex that Google bought in 2018 for $1 billion LinkedIn’s purchase comes as Silicon Valley’s R&D market is booming with a 50 percent jump in sales volume in the first quarter ending last month the research office availability rate ticked up 0.8 percent to 12.7 percent from the previous quarter while vacancy rose 1.6 percent to 11.2 percent from a year ago and net absorption fell to negative 656,500 square feet after positive absorption late last year — Dana Bartholomew Get San José Spotlight headlines delivered to your inbox Sunnyvale’s new partnership with Santa Clara County Animal Services has some major glitches The county doesn’t accept healthy stray cats. Its spay and neutering services are limited and it’s more than 40 miles away to the animal services facility in San Martin senior management analyst with the city’s Department of Public Safety presented the situation to the Sunnyvale City Council at an April 22 meeting where councilmembers raised concerns about the 45-minute commute While Hoang said the department hasn’t heard any official complaints with the distance with either the distance or … the question about county facilities,” Klein said at the meeting “(It) has not been a lot at this point but there have been multiple cases.” The city council began scrambling for an animal service provider when Sunnyvale’s 18-year-long partnership with the Humane Society of Silicon Valley ended late January A fire at the Humane Society in December cause more damage than expected forcing Sunnyvale to find another location The city secured an emergency partnership with the county-run San Martin facility in February City spokesperson Jennifer Garnett said the county agreement covers all other animal care needs such as sheltering abandoned or lost domestic animals The county’s emergency contract will run until the end of January 2026 The city is exploring other options for long-term contracts to meet the city’s animal care needs “The only major service impact is the inability to impound healthy stray cats,” Garnett told San José Spotlight Garnett said the city has two animal control officers but Sunnyvale doesn’t keep track of how much time officers spend driving The city couldn’t provide data on how many calls animal control gets about stray cats Santa Clara County has been hit hard by “kitten season,” as stray cat colonies grow in various neighborhoods While other cities struggle to grapple with stray cats Sunnyvale’s stray cat population has been dwindling according to Bay Area Cats founder Vanessa Forney Bay Area Cats is a nonprofit that helps spay and neuter cats across Sunnyvale Forney said the nonprofit has been able to spay and neuter “thousands” of Sunnyvale cats in its five years of operation She said the number of calls for the trap-neuter-release program has dropped in recent years due in part to the nonprofit’s strategy of targeting entire neighborhoods rather than each individual call Because the county can’t shelter healthy stray cats and the extra distance to the county’s spay and neuter clinic Bay Area Cats wants the city’s animal control calls about healthy stray cats to be directed to them Forney said the city risks having an explosion in its stray cat population “You can’t just have an open intake shelter you can’t just have animal control that can help with the healthy cats You need a combination of all of that,” Forney told San José Spotlight “It has to be a whole encompassing solution where everyone is working together.” “I don’t think this is feasible in the long term,” Klein said as we’ve seen … Suspending the ordinance is the right thing to do but having a long-term solution and answering some of those questions ‘how do we figure out a stray is a stray,’ is an important thing.” Contact B. 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The AP calls winners by analyzing vote tallies and other election data Check marks are used to denote a winner only when the AP calls a race the second-largest city in Santa Clara County will directly elect their mayor for only the second time as the city previously appointed mayors from the City Council including a potential doubling of the housing stock to 100,000 homes over two decades but largely has similar responsibilities as other council members: voting on city ordinances the mayor has broader powers to sign or veto bills oversee city departments and make appointments Candidate summaries are based on interviews with the candidates statements made at debates and public events and past news coverage.Sunnyvale saw less than a quarter of the needed homes built for people earning low and very low incomes from 2015–2023 the city is charged with completing more than 4,500 such homes by 2031 Sunnyvale’s Department of Public Safety is unique in that it combines police The department is fully staffed with about 200 officers currently do you want to make to the DPS if elected as mayor The city has recently hired a homeless services manager How well do you think the city has done in its efforts to support its hundreds of unhoused residents and what would you do to further address this issue including a revamping of its Moffett Park area on the northern end of the city do you have about the city’s trajectory over the next 20 years To learn more about how we use your information, please read our privacy policy. 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Contact voterguide@kqed.org Sunnyvale is trying a new approach to homeless encampment sweeps by putting people in motels and giving them an opportunity to make necessary life changes 26 placed about 25 unhoused people in 18 rooms across two Larkspur Landing hotels — one in Sunnyvale and one in Milpitas — for 30 days after their encampment near Sunnyvale Public Library was removed a homeless service nonprofit contracted by the city is providing case management and two meals a day outreach case manager on WeHOPE’s Sunnyvale outreach team but have started to open up and are engaging with his team’s case management services “Our team is passionate about this work,” Rogers told San José Spotlight “We’re eager to provide resources that help residents regain their independence to get them rolling.” who moved into the Larkspur hotel in Milpitas had been living in a tent behind the library since September He said staying in a hotel gives him stability as he seeks help for a hip injury and takes online classes toward receiving a Google IT Support Certificate to land a job “I’m very appreciative of all the help and how I can just focus on exactly what I need to do,” Stein told San José Spotlight I’m worried about necessary things I need to do for my life instead of just necessities to survive.” Sunnyvale has about 471 homeless residents, according to a 2023 point-in-time count, though the tally is considered to be an undercount. While officials conducted a new count earlier this year Sunnyvale spokesperson Jennifer Garnett said the hotel rooms cost about $124,000 for 30 days She said unhoused people first began gathering near the library in April 2024 and the city’s outreach team frequently visited but there were few resources they could offer Many of those living near the library previously lived at the North County Shelter, before adult residents were slowly removed as it shifted to a family shelter Jennifer Smith, who lived near the library for more than a year, said they tried to be respectful of the public space by picking up their trash and not keeping as many belongings. Smith has been staying at another of WeHOPE’s temporary shelter programs and said her experiences with the program’s wellness checks and case management have been lackluster The hotel program is another test of Sunnyvale’s attempts to strengthen support for homeless residents. Last year, the city replaced HomeFirst with WeHOPE as its outreach service provider and created a program to temporarily house more people in hotels during inclement weather Garnett said the city has maintained that supporting homeless residents is a priority and continues to explore multiple approaches, such as safe parking sites and hotel stays which will be discussed at a March 13 workshop meeting “Providing hotel room stays is not currently a formal program but it is a service we have explored as part of our ongoing efforts,” Garnett told San José Spotlight Contact B. Sakura Cannestra at [email protected] or @SakuCannestra on X The article notes that it cost the city $124,000 for 18 rooms over 30 days That works out to about $230 per room each day Are the people of Sunnyvale aware of how insane this spending is To put all their estimated 471 homeless people in these hotel rooms it would cost the city over $39 million per year You must be logged in to post a comment 408.206.5327[email protected]