Mountain View Voice: Affordable Housing Project Breaks Ground in Downtown Mountain View

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The construction of 120 affordable apartments on a city-owned parking lot in downtown Mountain View is officially underway after facing years of financial struggles to get built.

City and local leaders gathered outside Mountain View’s Civic Center Plaza Wednesday morning to celebrate the groundbreaking of Corso, a five-story affordable housing development at 444 Bryant St., near Mountain View’s City Hall. The 1.5-acre site used to be a public parking lot, known as Lot 12.

“We’re doing more than just breaking ground on a piece of land,” Santa Clara County Supervisor and former Mountain View Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga told a large crowd at the May 27 event. “I look forward to being able to welcome new neighbors and help break ground to provide hope, stability and opportunity for 120 families and individuals.”