SAN JOSE — An apartment project that could produce hundreds of residential units at a shuttered San Jose DMV office is headed into the final stages of the city’s review process.
The Place, as the proposed complex is called, would consist of 372 residential units, according to a request for a development permit filed on April 26 with the city’s planning department.
The three-building apartment complex would be built at 2222 Senter Road, the site of a DMV office that the state closed last year. Each of the three buildings would be seven stories.
The project envisions the demolition of the empty office building to clear the way for new construction.
It would be built in a neighborhood consisting primarily of businesses and industrial activities, and a short distance from a Costco warehouse store.
The closest existing residences are a few blocks to the east on the other side of Coyote Creek, and to the south of the project site.
The apartments in the proposed development would consist of a mix of studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. The studios and the one-bedroom units would have one bath while the two-bedroom units would have two baths, the project plans show.
Of the 372 apartments, 112 are expected to be studios, 200 are slated to be one-bedroom units and 60 are anticipated to be two-bedroom units.
HC Investment Associates, which is also the property owner, proposed the development. Vicky Kwoh Ching and Wu-Chung Hsiang head up HC Investment Associates, state government business records show.
The ownership entity is based at a Palo Alto single-family residence that Redfin estimates is valued at $9.7 million.
The project is slated for a series of city reviews scheduled to be completed before the end of this month.
