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Stanford Medicine is preparing to expand its footprint in Redwood City with new specialty clinics adjacent to an existing outpatient clinic. The new facility is designed to enhance access to health care in a city it has served for more than 15 years.
The new clinics, expected to be complete in late 2027, will occupy a nine-story, 227,700-square-foot facility, located at 550 Broadway. It will be Stanford’s first all-electric building. It will house cardiology, OB-GYN, urology, rheumatology, endocrinology, immunology, nephrology and LGBTQ+ primary care health services, along with a pharmacy, and space for lab and imaging services.
“Stanford Health Care is deepening its roots in Redwood City, bringing more services closer to home, building sustainably, and helping shape a vibrant, welcoming corridor along Broadway,” said Redwood City Mayor Elmer Martinez Saballos during a Wednesday, May 28, groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site. Site preparation and demolition began in early 2025. “I was born and raised here, and I grew up across the street from Taft (School) in the neighborhood, and have witnessed the evolution of this neighborhood. This is really a forward-thinking development that Redwood City is proud to have here at home.”
According to Stanford Health Care President and CEO David Entwistle, there are 20,000 Stanford patients who live in Redwood City among its 100,000 San Mateo County patients. The new building will also allow for the expansion of some Stanford specialties and for others to relocate from outdated facilities in Palo Alto, according to Stanford.
San Mateo County District 4 Supervisor Lisa Gauthier said that Stanford has cultivated long-standing partnerships with local nonprofits and community clinics, bringing Stanford’s quality of care to the county’s most vulnerable residents, including those living in historically underserved neighborhoods like North Fair Oaks.
The new building will include a detention tank to be built under the new garage that will detain 360,000 cubic feet of rainfall over the clinic site. It is designed to withstand a major earthquake. The detention tank will then discharge the stormwater when the city infrastructure is able to take on the load to manage the burden to its stormwater system, according to Stanford Health Care spokesperson Lisa Kim. The building will also have solar panels and electric vehicle chargers.
Stanford purchased the nearly 2.5-acre site at 550 Broadway in 2017 for $39.5 million, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. It brought Stanford’s landholdings in Redwood City to 43 acres. Prior to the purchase, the site had a single-story 71,000-square-foot building owned by Genenwith with a data center and administrative office, according to the Business Journal.
Level 10 Construction is the contractor on the project and ZGF is the architect.
For project updates, go to Stanford Health Care’s website at stanfordhealthcare.org.
