Montage Resort and Spa

Format
Brief

City
Laguna Beach

State/Province
CA

Country
USA

Metro Area
Los Angeles

Project Type
Planned Community or Resort

Location Type
Outer Suburban

Land Uses
Hotel
Open space
Parking
Single-Family For-Sale Housing

Keywords
Community-involved development
Luxury hotel
Public art
Public park
Sustainable development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2006 Winner
Waterfront

Site Size
30 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
1999

Date Opened
2003

A brief is a short version of a case study.

For more than 50 years, a bluff-top site offering some of California’s most spectacular ocean views was a gated trailer park for 268 mobile homes. The 30-acre (12 ha) site was not only an eyesore ﬁlled with increasingly dilapidated structures; it also prevented much-desired public access to the beach. Although as many as 37 developers tried to develop the land over the years, the community consistently opposed these plans, even after the mobile home park closed in 1996. Locals knew the oceanfront site as “Treasure Island,” after the movie that was ﬁlmed there in 1934.

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Developer/Owner
The Athens Group
Laguna Beach, CA

Site Planner and Architect (Residential)
McLarand Vasquez Emisek & Partners
Irvine, CA

Architect (Hotel)
Hill Glazier Architects
Palo Alto, CA

Principal Authors
Julie Stern and David Taksuye

ULI Awards for Excellence 2006 Winner