Located in downtown Santa Monica, California, Ocean Avenue South is a mixed-use apartment and retail project consisting of residential units serving people with a variety of incomes. It consists of 160 affordable apartments, 158 luxury condominiums, and 20,000 square feet of retail space. The project, the result of extensive community planning and a public/private partnership, fronts the new 6.2-acre Tongva Park and was completed in 2014.
Elleven is a 13-story condominium tower located in downtown Los Angeles. The first of a four-building high-rise community called the South Collection, Elleven consists of 176 units that include studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom “soft loft” condos and live/work townhouses. With low-VOC materials and finishes, water-efficient fixtures and landscaping, energy-efficient appliances, and use of materials such as wheatboard cabinetry and bamboo flooring, Elleven is a green structure and has registered for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The building also includes 5,245 square feet (487 square meters) of retail space and 258 parking spots.
Located in a transitioning industrial neighborhood north of Coors Field in downtown Denver, Colorado, Fire Clay Lofts is a four-acre (1.64-hectare) mixed-use redevelopment that combines the adaptive use of an old warehouse with new construction to create 166 condominiums Including 32 affordable residences. A total of 14 buildings featuring units in flat, loft, townhouse, and live/work configurations are located on the streetfront and perimeter of the two-block site. The structures and secured parking lots define the block and provide limited access to the shared landscaped courtyards, and passages connect the site.
The Rise is an exemplary model of transit-oriented, central-city development that successfully mixes large-format retail uses with smaller shops and housing in a well-resolved mid-rise form. Grosvenor Americas’ mixed-use, residential-over-retail building is located just south of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, on Cambie Street, a major north–south arterial road and transit route. The building occupies an entire 2.3-acre block and includes 92 rental live/work units above 200,000 square feet of retail space, a one-acre fully internalized truck court and waste/recycling area, and three levels of underground parking with 520 retail and 121 residential parking stalls. The retail component includes three large-format stores, each situated on its own floor. Smaller streetfront shops line two sides of the building. The residential component sits on the roof of the retail podium in an open-air townhouse and flat configuration with units surrounding a functional, shared, grass-covered courtyard and community garden.