Posted by bikes2work, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Nov 17, 2008 at 12:27 pm

Actually, a building permit was issued for that property in October of 2007. I have been wondering the same thing as WilliamR for a long time.

From the City's online permit system, the project was described as: "NEW 2-STORY COMMERCIAL BUILDING SHELL WITH FINISHED LOBBY CORE, ACCESSIBLE TOILETS AND AT GRADE PARKING. (15,779 s.f.) "

I have no idea why it didn't get constructed, but I think the permit is now expired since no work was started within 1 year. You can look it up. The address is 101 Forest. According to the permit system, they paid over $23,000 for the permit.

Posted by old-timer, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Nov 17, 2008 at 12:31 pm

I noticed this morning that workers were all over that building and wondered if it was finally being renovated. Don't blame the economy -- it's been vacant since before the boom!

Posted by Paul, a resident of Stanford, on Nov 17, 2008 at 9:43 pm

I heard that a Hooters was going in there.

Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Nov 17, 2008 at 10:07 pm

Wishful thinking!(?)

Posted by General Contractor, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on May 1, 2009 at 10:51 am

The demolition is finally under way and will be a huge improvement to the neighborhood. Once the building, concrete slab, and parking lots are gone, we begin construction on a new two story office building. This has been a long time coming.

Posted by Too Much Traffic, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood, on May 1, 2009 at 11:02 am

How did they allow this building to be demolished? Wasn't this building historic?

It would have been better to leave it derelict--a new building will mean jobs and with that more traffic and remember even the addition of one job adds more traffic.