26 California Buildings News • Q3 2021
New Projects San Diego Mixed-Use Project Earns Award TCA Architects won top honors at this year’s Gold Nugget Awards for One Paseo, a recently completed mixed-use project located in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood of San Diego. Designed for Kilroy Reality, the project combines 608 units of residential, 280,000 square feet of office and 96,000 square feet of retail. The residents are located four and five stories above ground-floor amenities, creating a true live, work, and play environment that stood out for the judging panel that took note of the collaborative efforts of the One Paseo team. Photo: Courtesy of TCA Architects
Santa Ana's New Homeless Center The Yale Navigation Center, a 64,000-square-foot, twostory emergency homeless shelter in Santa Ana, was recently completed by C.W. Driver Companies. Spearheaded by HomeAid Orange County, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building new lives for families and individuals experiencing homelessness, the new facility will provide refuge for 275 single men, 100 single women and 25 couples who are experiencing homelessness. The new navigation center will deliver on a critical need for a permanent year-round, 24-hour shelter designed to help homeless individuals achieve permanent housing and self-sufficiency. “Through its wraparound supportive services, the Yale Navigation Center is creating a pathway to permanent supportive housing for those experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness,” said Supervisor Andrew Do, Chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. “The Center meets a critical need in our communities by addressing a social issue that has impacted our local businesses and neighborhoods for years. This is part of the System of Care program that the County began in 2016.” Located at 2229 S. Yale Street, the center will offer temporary lodging, basic needs including meals and sanitary amenities, and access to support services such as case management, employment and housing assistance, behavioral and mental healthcare support and substance abuse treatment, among other services. Key spaces include women and men’s dorms, restrooms, showers, a dining hall, kitchen, a large patio for recreation and outdoor dining, a lobby, security station, clinic space and classrooms for support services. The center will also offer workstations and a large breakroom for shelter staff as well as a 105-stall, groundlevel public parking lot. “We’re honored to partner with HomeAid Orange County to create a navigation center with wraparound care for individuals facing homelessness in the central part of Orange County,” said Karl Kreutziger, president of C.W. Driver Companies. “The new center is designed to provide local individuals and couples with access to clean and safe lodging as well as the appropriate resources to help improve their physical and mental wellbeing and reach stability so they can transition out of homelessness as quickly and efficiently as possible.” Photo credit: JunTangPhotography.com
