New California Projects

California Buildings News • Q3 2021

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

New Projects

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.”

California Buildings News • Q3 2021

The Grad Housing Project Near San Jose State Wins Award

SWENSON, a Northern California real estate development company, announced its project—The Grad— has been named the winner of Best Student or Faculty Housing by judges of the 2021 Pacific Coast Builders Conference Gold Nugget Awards. The awards, which honor architectural design and planning excellence and draw entries from throughout the United States and internationally, were announced in June at a virtual event. “We would like to thank the Pacific Coast Builders Conference for this award to SWENSON for Best Student Housing Project,” said Architect of Record and Senior Vice President Architecture at SWENSON, Dan Sell. “SWENSON did a great job in recognizing the potential of the site and finding a great partner, Amcal Multi Housing, who provided the vision to create a first-class student housing facility. SWENSON’s ability to provide the architecture and the construction for this project was critical in maintaining the schedule and budget, through a seamless, efficient and cost-effective process, which contributed to the overall success of the project.” The Grad is a 260-unit, 1,039-bed, off-campus housing project located on a 1.5-acre site within one block of San Jose State University). Located at East San Carlos Street between South Second and South Third streets, the single 19-story, L-shaped, elevator-equipped building offers 17 floors of apartments, a multitude of student-oriented amenities, and ground floor retail.

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Temecula Gets First Higher Ed Facility

Mt. San Jacinto College’s (MSJC) Temecula Valley Campus, marking the first permanent campus for higher education in the city, was just completed by C.W. Driver Companies. The 350,000 square-foot facility will enable MSJC to expand access to the residents of Southwest Riverside County and the surrounding communities. MSJC is part of California’s 116 community college system. MSJC trains local residents for jobs and prepares students to earn associate degrees and transfer to four-year universities. The new campus addresses shortages in classroom space across the district. The $60 million project consisted of a seismic retrofit and transformation of two five-story office buildings into a cutting-edge academic facility. Located on Motor Car Parkway, the new 27-acre campus is equal in size to MSJC’s Menifee Valley Campus, which serves more than 15,000 students. The school provides students access to a welcome center, veterans resource center, health center, dining hall, bookstore, career center and support services. The new campus features 22 classrooms, six science labs and five computer labs, as well as dedicated areas for faculty offices, conference rooms, a board room, collaborative spaces and study group rooms. “The team at C.W. Driver Companies was proud to partner with Mt. San Jacinto College to develop a convenient, accessible and quality educational facility for local students,” said Dave Amundson, project executive at C.W. Driver Companies. “By leveraging decades of experience in higher education and tenant improvement construction, we were able to successfully execute a seismic retrofit and complete upgrade resulting in a safe and modern environment for students to learn and pursue their passions.” Photo credit Lawrence Anderson