One of the longest running sagas in town (from before 2006) moved another step towards putting shovels in dirt on Monday. As the Daily Journal is reporting
A proposal to build a series of large office buildings, possibly the home to biotech companies, at the now-vacant former Burlingame Drive-in, received unanimous approval by the Planning Commission Monday and will now go to the City Council for final approval.
Millennium Partners, New York-based developers of mixed-used properties, applied in April 2010 to develop the 18.13-acre site — a project now known as Burlingame Point, located at 300 Airport Blvd. (also known as 350 Beach Road). Plans call for 689,810 square feet of office space in two five-story buildings, one seven-story building and one eight-story building. In December 2010, the City Council approved an agreement to conduct an environmental review of the project, which became available for review late last year.
We will have to see how the windsurfers react to the idea that "One of the biggest challenges, which Millennium is still trying to work through, is the disruption in wind patterns." This one almost landed in court the last time around.
This news piece today made me a little wistful:
NEW YORK (AP) — The drive-in theater, long a dwindling nostalgia act in a multiplex world, is experiencing a momentary return to prominence.
With nearly all of the nation’s movie theaters shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, some drive-in owners think they’re in a unique position to give moviegoers a chance to do something out of the house while keeping distance from others. This weekend, some drive-ins aren’t the only show in town. They’re the only show in the country.
However long it lasts, the drive-in is for now, in certain parts of the country, one of the only remaining refuges of public entertainment — of getting out the house to do something while still staying inside your car. At the Paramount Drive-in near Los Angeles, Forrest and Erin McBride figured a drive-in movie was one of the only ways they could responsibly celebrate their anniversary.
“We were like, what can we do? Everything’s closed,” said Forrest before a showing of “Onward” on Thursday night. “We were like, ‘Well, a drive-in theater is kind of like a self-quarantined movie date.’”
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Posted by: Joe | March 21, 2020 at 12:59 PM