Archer Aviation’s “Exciting Plans for Connecting Five Air Mobility Locations Across San Francisco Bay Area”

Archer Avi­a­tion announced this week, excit­ing plans for an air mobil­i­ty net­work that is to con­nect five strate­gic loca­tions across the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, reports a press release.

These are at:-

: South San Fran­cis­co. 

: Napa. 

: San Jose. 

: Oak­land.

: Liv­er­more. 

Archer’s net­work “is antic­i­pat­ed to pro­vide unprece­dent­ed con­nec­tiv­i­ty to com­mu­ni­ties around the region, allow­ing peo­ple to replace one-to-two-hour dri­ves to cities around the bay with flights that take around 10 to 20 min­utes,” explains the release. 

It con­tin­ues, “To anchor the net­work, Kil­roy Real­ty Cor­po­ra­tion, a lead­ing U.S land­lord and devel­op­er with an 18 mil­lion square foot oper­at­ing and devel­op­ment port­fo­lio, recent­ly signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with Archer iden­ti­fy­ing Kil­roy Oys­ter Point, a 50-acre water­front cam­pus in South San Fran­cis­co, as a crit­i­cal hub in Archer’s planned San Fran­cis­co Bay Area UAM net­work.” 

The MOU looks at inves­ti­gat­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to con­struct a ver­ti­port at the Kil­roy Oys­ter Point devel­op­ment, “an ameni­ty-rich, mixed-use cam­pus in the heart of the Bay Area biotech ecosys­tem.”

This offers Archer access to a take­off and land­ing site in South San Fran­cis­co that will con­nect with planned Archer ver­ti­port loca­tions at the four stat­ed above, where Archer already has exist­ing rela­tion­ships with infra­struc­ture and oper­a­tions part­ners. 

This net­work is expect­ed to open a new world of trav­el­ling for Bay Area res­i­dents and vis­i­tors by pro­vid­ing effi­cient access to peo­ple, places and events across the region.

Bryan Bern­hard, Archer’s Chief Growth & Infra­struc­ture Offi­cer, enthused, “We’re thrilled to col­lab­o­rate with Kil­roy on devel­op­ing infra­struc­ture to sup­port Archer’s air mobil­i­ty ser­vice and lay­ing the foun­da­tion for a robust net­work of land­ing sites through­out the Bay Area.”

Kil­roy Real­ty is renowned for sus­tain­abil­i­ty, build­ing oper­a­tions, inno­va­tion and design, and is posi­tioned to become the first devel­op­er in the U.S to bring eVTOL oper­a­tions to its ten­ants and their employ­ees. 

The MOU sup­ports the devel­op­ment of an Archer “Sea Por­tal’’, a water­front mobil­i­ty hub pro­vid­ing elec­tric fer­ry ser­vice and eVTOL oper­a­tions for all com­pa­nies at Kil­roy Oys­ter Point. This Por­tal is to be pow­ered by renew­able ener­gy, offer­ing unique air and sea-based trans­porta­tion options to employ­ees at the cam­pus.

Angela Aman, Kil­roy’s CEO, remarked, “We believe that this inno­v­a­tive and sus­tain­able ser­vice has the poten­tial to pro­vide excep­tion­al con­ve­nience and option­al­i­ty to cur­rent and future ten­ants at the project, fur­ther dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing Kil­roy Oys­ter Point with­in the South San Fran­cis­co mar­ket.” 

An ini­tial launch loca­tion at Kil­roy Oys­ter Point could open as ear­ly as late next year. Mean­while, the two com­pa­nies will be explor­ing poten­tial expan­sion into oth­er loca­tions with­in Kilroy’s port­fo­lio.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

https://kilroyrealty.com/

(Images: Archer Aviation/Kilroy)

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