We lost the bowling alley, Olive Garden, now Su Hong's!

It is getting so hard to have a family in Palo Alto.

Would hate to see Su Hong/Palo Alto gone as driving up ECR to Menlo Park would be a drag (especially by the time you get to Stanford Shopping Center or during the collegiate football season).

Maybe the new hotel could incorporate a Su Hong restaurant within its premises? About the only major improvement/alteration Su Hong might consider in this scenario is enlarging its bar area as the one at 'Denny's' isn't too much to speak of and being in a hotel, a larger bar would attract more 'walk-in' customers and hotel guests who just want to 'chill'.

Another under-parked monstrosity replacing a much-loved restaurant to fatten the city coffers and the pockets of developers brought to you by their City Council cronies.

85 parking spaces for 69 guest rooms and 8 3-bedroom residences (at least 24 residents)???? Will the hotel be staffed by robots? There's no worker parking!

So tired of PA becoming an office park surrounded by $350++ a night hotel rooms that do little for the residents, visiting family members, Stanford Hospital patients and their families, and even business travelers on normal daily expenses.

LOL, Sung Ho.

@R. Winslow:

The Menlo Park Su Hong closed a number of years ago, so the Palo Alto location is the only one left.

Steam's way better though pricier than Su Hong.
Thaiphoon's still here.
You can always hit the Panda Express next to J-Bo.
Siam Royal is awesome and affordable.

I'll be glad to see another hotel so business partners have more options.

>The Menlo Park Su Hong closed a number of years ago, so the Palo Alto location is the only one left.
@Kevin

Thanks for the update. I reside P/T in Palo Alto now and haven't been to MP for awhile. I recall the main Su Hong restaurant on ECR and a smaller one a block or so away behind it for take-out.

When is the City going to shut down and demolish the Glass Slipper? The area of El Camino that needs immediate attention and needs to be repurposed is the stretch between Los Robles and Fernando.

Repurposed! The Ventura and Barron Park neighborhoods are lucky to have a mix of many good retail and other businesses that provide us real services we want and need that we can walk or bike to.
Look more carefully and you will see how lucky we are. And retail protection ordinance protects them - or should if city staff will abide by the law.
Hands off our retail!

Finally El Camino is beginning the renovation process. Most buildings from the 3500 block to the 4200 block need to be replaced. I hope the city of Palo Alto examines the entire section. The hut (3516) has been there for 50 years along with the dirt lot-something needs to be done in that area. Hopefully the City of Palo Alto can come up with some long term development ideas.

This new hotel will definitely impact residents of the Palo Alto Redwoods next door at 4250 El Camino. Hope they will be involved in any decision to go ahead with this project.

When you consider other projects recently built and in the pipeline, that is a lot of new hotel rooms in this small area. (Not to mention the growing popularity of AirBnB in ADUs.) Can you say "glut"? Townhomes on El Camino attached to a hotel? Will there be open space on-site? Who would want to live there?

Ugh. This is a poorly conceived development. I'm not opposed to higher density along El Camino, but this looks like a stupid project.

Eliminating more community-serving local business. Aaaargh.

Oh come on @Palo Alto native...Glass Slipper is an icon, it is unique and not boring like the Hilton, Homewood Inn, soon to be built Parmani, the Marriots coming on San Antonio which all are square boxes.

We are going to miss Su Hong if it goes away. Oh, and @Chris Zaharias, Chinese, Thai and Burmese foods are not the same thing.

We too will miss Su Hong if it disappears.

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Yep, We need another Hotel.
I just can't wait to spend a few nights in a new PaAlto Hotel
Yep, Just what we PaAltans need..
Hey City Council..What are you doing to our City?

Still don't see "Stop PA El Camino Expansion" and
"Stop San Antonio expansion" yard signs. The other yard signs are still there.

Hmmm.....The negatives are that it'll increase congestion along El Camino. Traffic along Arastradero is already jammed in the morning and the afternoon going towards Gunn and Terman. And jobs? I doubt that a lot of Palo Altans will get jobs there. That means guest and worker traffic. And of course, City Council will then argue we need more workforce housing for those workers (who would never be able to afford to live in Palo Alto.)

The only sparkle in the project will be that it'll just add to Palo Alto's coffers for the Hotel Tax so that City Council can argue we need more funds for high density housing.

It's time to say no to this project and other schemes like this. The current majority City Council mentality is to build at any cost. We need to stop this mentality at the next election. We cannot allow outside developers to ruin the character and livability of Palo Alto.

" The trend reflects both Palo Alto's healthy economy and the wishes of the City Council majority, which supports having more and bigger hotels. In January, during a discussion of the Comprehensive Plan, the council voted to explore raising the allowed density for new hotels by 50 percent if they are downtown and by 25 percent if they're not."

I have some homework to do on this unless someone knows: why is CC pushing hotel density? Is the city so short on hotel rooms that we need all that we have plus the 2 new Marriott hotels AND this one? Does the City or an ABAG-like entity keep numbers on this like they do on housing? Or are hotels money-generating machines for developers? If the answer to the last question is YES, it is clear why our CC majority supports this.

More an more it feels like our CC majority is more concerned about people who MIGHT come here than people who actually ARE here.

We all know that more hotel rooms will make them more affordable, don't we?

Are we requiring any rooms to be set aside for "Below Market Rate"?

It's just surprising that so many reactions are negative. Of course, planning and strategy are strategic to the long term regarding development. It is challenging for Palo Alto to balance growth with the status quo...but good grief...who would've ever thought a little piece of silicon, a keyboard and some electricity would revolutionize the world. Some may call it change and others progress but the one constant is nothing stays the same. I offer a challenge to everyone...to find a collaborative approach and share feedback that is solution or ideals focused. I'll start: For this project I would like to see an exterior that reflects the nature and atmosphere of Palo Alto. Ideally, the building would fit organically in the space and include as much greenspace as possible. Also, would it be reasonable to request from the developer a commitment to be an active participant in the community? How can growth and development not only fit the financial requirements to make a project feasible but how can it "add" to Palo Alto's identity and community?

Palo Alto atmosphere? How about an inventory of blue sky and sunshine? Three street-trees in front of Su Hong see sunset around 8 pm. With the new building, they'll be in shadow by 2. People are wondering where Mountain View got its name. We've given up on it here too, unless you're in the penthouse.

Lot too small to accommodate such a monster. Dangerous side walk for pedestrian with current setback already! Not the right way to satisfy parking requirements. Too many hotels and motels in the same area need to have more restaurants for hotel/motel guests and locals.

Palo Alto has long had a policy of keeping buildings east of 101 to two stories or less, given the fragile ecology along the Bay. That was why the proposal to put a 50 foot car dealership failed. Is the CC really thinking of dumping this policy?

New building should be away from the Bay, where flooding is not an issue. Isn't anyone paying attention to the forecast rise in sea level? Why isn't the city targeting a much better area for development - between Foothill and 280, and work on limiting development on floodplains. Housing and hotels there would be much closer to all the companies in the Stanford Business Park, eliminating a lot of cross town traffic. More private buses could reduce traffic on 280, as would the potential of living close enough to work that you could easily bike or walk or at least not have to drive on highways to get to work.

Dear Annette,
RE: CC interest in hotel density.
Here are a few thoughts as to why.
1. Remember TOT increase to 14% voted by resident's?
Portion of projected 2.5 million increase yearly to be used for traffic parking and such, needed desperately. It goes to the general fund where it sits adding up and should be used as it was promised. Now would be a great time. THere are certainly enough items on the list, we definitely have not rushed into anything and Palo Alto can never say we did not have enough meetings about ANYTHING!
2. Business license will be a sure fire way to enforce the head count tax/fee
and hotels keep paying more & more with every new idea to raise money.
Hotels seem to be doing way more that their fair share. New hotels will add inventory, increase congestion, cause more problems and still no solutions.
Legacy hotels have and continue to pay millions of dollars to the city. Employees are leaving due to the never ending agony of parking. CC why after ten years has nothing happened( I'm not talking about forming stakeholder advisory steering meeting committee to do another study, been there, done that, how many times and nothing. SO now let's add more hotels, make it harder on the legacy's and collect all the the TOT and headcount $

Up there to GG, I have to tell you that you are not fully informed.
The reason I am speaking up is one of the hotels in Palo Alto has always been amazing for a non-profit I am part of and treated strangers(my parent's) like family while my mom was here for cancer treatment at Stanford for 3 years.
They were all extraordinary, they made it a home and Mom made it to her Grandson's 3rd birthday. My family will forever be grateful, the manager immediately jumped in with everything to help. NO WAY to explain the emotional level and details of kindness they shared unconditionally.

Just sayin' not all the hotels deserve a bad rap.

With all this cancerous building in Palo Alto and the tax revenue
generated by is Palo Alto not able to afford to keep services up
and fees down - more, more, more money ... and where does it
go? Why are the Baylands and Foothill Park and other Parks
continually falling apart?. Why are we insecure in terms of flooding?
We ought to be expanding parks and other qualify of life programs,
but when was the last time that happened?

My family went to Su Hong's this weekend. The place was busy and vibrant, the service was great and the food was good value.

What is going to happen to Su Hong's. We are losing all our family favorites.

Do not take our beloved Su Hong....it's been a family celebration place for decades!!!