R&M Plans 28-Story Senior Living Highrise in Redwood City

R&M Properties has floated a plan to build a 28-story senior apartment highrise in Redwood City.

The Palo Alto-based developer has filed preliminary plans to build the residential care facility at 1800 Broadway, SF Yimby reported. The number of units was not disclosed.

The 310-foot complex would replace three single-story medical offices and a parking lot across the street from a Kaiser Permanente medical campus.

If approved, the double-tower development would be the second tallest in San Mateo County after the 317-foot Genesis North Tower in South San Francisco.

Plans for the 2-acre site call for 742,500 square feet of homes, 2,900 square feet of shops and restaurants and a 75,900-square-foot parking garage for 164 cars.

The apartments would be split between independent living, assisted living and memory care.

R&M has employed Senate Bill 330 to boost housing density by 63 units and streamline project approval.

The project, designed by Minneapolis-based HGA, includes two towers protruding from a seven- to eight-story podium, according to a drawing. The taller tower would feature vertical windows and exterior balconies. The shorter tower would be clad in a “pixelated barcode pattern” of stone panels and floor-to-ceiling windows, with external balconies, according to SF Yimby.

The cost and construction timeline for the highrise was not disclosed. A formal project application is expected before October.

The tallest building in San Mateo County has been proposed by N17 Development, which would employ the state builder’s remedy for a 431-foot residential tower among four buildings planned on the former corporate campus of Sunset Magazine at 80 Willow Road in Menlo Park.

R&M Properties, founded in 1997 by Stephen Reller and Mark Moragne, has focused on Class A office, life science, R&D and multifamily projects, according to its website.

— Dana Bartholomew