The Flats: Luxury living in downtown Sunnyvale
It’s everything that’s great about big-city life -- without the hassles — yet it’s also a great place for children.
Welcome home to The Flats at CityLine in downtown Sunnyvale, where most of what you might need to live a life of comfort and style is, or soon will be as development continues, within easy walking distance. You can leave the car at home when shopping at Whole Foods, strolling to a movie or meeting friends for a meal or a drink at one of the dozens of new and established pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants.
Residents even have free access to not one, but two, fitness places without even leaving The Flats.
Down the block, Caltrain provides bullet service to San Mateo, San Francisco and San Jose. You may find yourself walking a lot, but you won’t wear out much leather going to the neighborhood cobbler.
Heck, you might even consider selling your car and ditching the daily, soul-sucking freeway grind that is one of the biggest downsides to life in the suburban South Bay. A good number of residents get by with a ride-sharing service when they need a car, he says.
“The location is absolutely the selling point,” says David Portus, community manager at The Flats at CityLine. “The individuals that we are leasing to (say) walkability is a huge draw. … Caltrain is right there. You hear people talking about that all the time. It’s a tremendous value add.”
Portus works for Sares Regis Group of Northern California, which manages The Flats, which has a small ownership stake in the overall downtown redevelopment known as CityLine. So far, Sares Regis has put only 198 units on the market in the CityLine development, all of which Portus says were scooped up pronto despite the substantial rents. Like The Flats’ existing buildings, the others would also certainly include ground-floor retail and office space.
Housing has long been a huge part of the city’s overall plan to pump even more life into downtown Sunnyvale.
While historic Murphy Avenue has supported a lively food-and-drink scene for ages, a surge of new residents living just a stone’s throw away in The Flats and other complexes still in the pipeline is expected to ensure it remains that way. Some of those businesses have expressed concern that they would be forgotten in the excitement.
Portus seems confident those businesses will thrive, not wither, as more of CityLine comes online.
“It’s going to be a much more robust business environment with a stronger base of customers. We’ve definitely had people decide to lease at The Flats based on that,” he said, referring to the neighborhood feel provided by the existing shops and restaurants.
Vacancy at The Flats is very low, but more apartments are on their way to CityLine.