Harvard Real Estate Alumni Organization

Tuesday,  October 4th, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 PM at HOK SF. 

Location: HOK, 1 Bush Street Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94101

Please join the Harvard Real Estate Alumni Organization for a project discussion from the developer and architect featuring the newest Apple's Silicon Valley, Central and Wolfe Campus located in Sunnyvale, CA at the heart of the Silicon Valley.  Land Bank Investments, the developer of the campus, worked with  HOK on the project since conception and land entitlement, prior to selling it to John Stewart company.

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SPEAKERS:

Steve Morton, ASLA – Regional Director of Planning, HOK

Steve is the regional director of planning and consulting for HOK’s West Coast region. He is located in the firm’s San Francisco office.  With a specialty in corporate campus planning, Morton’s experience spans over 30 years in real estate strategy and land planning advisory services for Fortune 100 companies and large-scale institutional clients domestically and abroad, including Apple, AbbVie, Genentech, Citi, Google, ExxonMobil, the City of Long Beach and Santa Clara University.

A thought leader in his field, Morton collaborates with clients to formulate strategies and make the critical decisions needed to optimize performance of land-based assets and align them with business objectives. His approach is focused on building consensus among key stakeholders, producing advocates to implement the recommended solutions and “own” the strategic plan. Morton regularly authors and speaks within industry forums and enjoys collaboration across disciplines in real estate, planning and design.

Scott Jacobs – CEO, Landbank Investments

Jacobs’ grandfather purchased the 18-acre site in Sunnyvale, California, in the 1950s, when it was a pear orchard. In the 1970s, his son, Jacobs’ father, developed the site into nine single-story, concrete tilt-up buildings that housed some of the pioneering technology companies that helped create Silicon Valley.  Jacobs’ vision is a LEED Platinum-certified office campus known as Central & Wolfe, named for its location at the intersection of Central Expressway and North Wolfe Road. Designed by HOK Architects, plans for the 777,000-square-foot campus include three interconnected curvilinear office buildings in the crude shape of a shamrock, a parking garage, and a two-story amenities building, inside of which would be such essentials as a cafeteria and a fitness center. Elsewhere on the campus, numerous smaller, ground-level amenities spaces include a coffee bar, general store, bike repair shop, bank, dry cleaner, barbershop, and health and wellness options.