Saturday, April 19, 2014

Local developer in Half Moon Bay area is busy


Half Moon Bay Review/Mark Noack, 4/17/14.  "Main Street corridor in developer's sights."

Harbor Village was build,
surfers continue to swim
the Pacific Ocean survived
Potential mixed use residential and commercial
"Coastside developers have been meeting with local officials in recent weeks to discuss a new mixed-use project along Lewis Foster Drive.

The project reportedly calls for a mixture of residential and commercial construction along a vacant field students often use as a path up to Half Moon Bay High School. No formal plans have been submitted but city officials say they have discussed the concept with local developer Keet Nerhan. Nerhan owns about five acres along the street.

Last year, then-Mayor Rick Kowalczyk suggested such a project could actually alleviate the traffic congestion. He described a possible traffic turnaround on the developer’s property that could be used by parents to drop off students from class. Fellow City Councilman Allan Alifano also said he was intrigued by ways a new development could help. He suggested that the developer might add lanes to Lewis Foster Drive and funnel some traffic out of his development and directly onto Highway 1 rather than Main Street. He declined to discuss specifics of Nerhan’s plans."  Read article.  

Approved drawing of the building. Half Moon Bay Planning Department
Approved mixed use commercial and offices
Related Half Moon Bay Patch/Christa Bigue (Editor), 9/13/13.  "What's going on at the corner of Highway 92 and Main Street."  Local developer Keet Nerhan, of KN Properties, owner of Harbor Village, is putting up a new commercial building at the Highway 92 entrance to Half Moon Bay. Now the vacant lot in front of the Pilarcitos Square shopping center will have a purpose: to house a mixed used building with commercial space and offices. Tell us your opinion about this new space. Is it a welcomed addition to the community or a development that you think will struggle to find tenants in this economy. According to the Half Moon Bay Review, developers for the project have dropped no names as to what businesses would move into the new building.

Half Moon Bay Review/Mark Noack, 12/10/08, "Harbor Village opens amid tough times." Harbor Village mall is set to officially open on Saturday, after almost 30 years of planning, development and many, many setbacks. ....  Developer Keet Nerhan has worked for decades on building the Harbor Village project, a combined hotel, restaurant and shopping promenade across Capistrano Road from Pillar Point Harbor.   Biz Journal/Keet Nerhan/Sarah Duxbury, 4/10/08, "Hospitality by the sea." "Despite being staunchly anti-development, the San Mateo County coast is rising as a destination for tourists and business groups looking for something different yet within an easy drive of San Francisco. Indeed, 85 percent of Half Moon Bay's almost 2.5 million yearly visitors come from Northern California. They're a mix of daytrippers and overnighters who can choose among 830 coastside guest rooms, ranging from the Ritz Carlton to small bed-and-breakfasts. The newest arrival, and the only significant coastside development in a decade, is the $25 million Oceano Hotel & Spa, which captures the essence of what the region offers visitors." 

Note photographs -ocean view from Harbor Village Farmers Market, empty lot from Half Moon Bay review, approved building from HMB Patch, courtesy of the HMB Planning Department.  

Posted by Kathy Meeh

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

And Pacifica and city hall is still sleeping.

"Despite being staunchly anti-development, the San Mateo County coast is rising as a destination for tourists and business groups looking for something different yet within an easy drive of San Francisco. Indeed, 85 percent of Half Moon Bay's almost 2.5 million yearly visitors come from Northern California. They're a mix of daytrippers and overnighters who can choose among 830 coastside guest rooms, ranging from the Ritz Carlton to small bed-and-breakfasts. The newest arrival, and the only significant coastside development in a decade, is the $25 million Oceano Hotel & Spa, which captures the essence of what the region offers visitors."

Anonymous said...

Hotels, yes! But Harbor Village shopping center isn't making money for anyone. Opened in 2008 and slid right into the recession.

Anonymous said...

If it wasn't making money the bank would have foreclosed by now!

Anonymous said...

Oh sure sure. Constant struggle to get and keep retail tenants and the mix is not at all upscale. All they need is a Goodwill store.

Anonymous said...

Pacifica needs a few more Goodwill type store.

No Seriously said...

I think the City could do a better job attracting some "anchor" stores into the quarry like Goodwill, Dollar General, Bubba Gumps and TJ Maxx

Anonymous said...

Bubba Gumps is too upclass for Pacifica. Maybe a Golden Coral.

Anonymous said...

That's a retail line-up that screams Pacifica. For the food category, how about a Burger King?
Maybe we can snag a branch of Twice as Nice--they seem to be the anchor for Harbor Village. Grocery Outlet and a check cashing joint and done!

Anonymous said...

Come on guys, raise the bar.
Pacifica is a shit hole because we think that's all we deserve.
Reject that selfish and stupid NOBIE mindset.
This is a beautiful place located in one of the most desirable parts of the world.
There is no justification to living like beggars in squalor.

Anonymous said...

anona@225pm: ok then. Scratch the Burger King. We'll go uptown with a Carl's Jr.

Anonymous said...

It's hard to tell who's kidding here. Such is Pacifica.

Anonymous said...

This guy is in escrow to buy Dave N Lou's. You heard it here first!

Anonymous said...

Good.
Hopefully someone with money, vision and tenacity.
Hope they can withstand the usual onslaught from NOBIES.
I see Maybury is already talking up the nuts in this town to fight off proposed Fassler development (today's Trib).
Anything to keep Pacifica poor is fair game with these creeps.