I took this panorama on July 6, 2009.
It will be really interesting to see what ends up being constructed in time. I hope something unique ends up there. One of the things that strikes me is that, from Tunnel Avenue, the contours of the valley are becoming visible again. We need to capitalize on the sight lines through the valley in our designs. The view of the hill at the top of the Sunnydale public housing can be seen from Tunnel, and I'd like to see the two projects speak to each other somehow, with views to those natural landmarks visible from numerous vantage points.
There needs to be a living wall or some amazing feature that you see from the train, like vertical gardens, but it needs to look good from the train as much as to the people living there: let's make that a gate to San Francisco.
And why can't we have a pedestrian bridge between Little Hollywood and the new neighborhood again? It would make what happens at Schlage much more relevant to the surrounding neighborhoods.
At any, rate, it's cool to see previously blocked views open up. Now you can imagine a couple more blocks of Leland, east of the intersection with Bayshore.
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