Private balconies. A sunlit courtyard. Orange County’s first mass timber office building. Access to an urban park and chef-driven restaurants.
The Weave office structure is the latest building to sprout up at the OCVibe—a 100-acre, $4 billion mixed-use development featuring sports and entertainment venues surrounding the Honda Center in Anaheim and backed by Henry and Susan Samueli.
OCVibe developers say the 168,000-square-foot, six-story Weave office building won’t be a conventional workplace.
It will instead be the answer to what the modern workforce is looking for: fresh air, flexible space and a pedestrian-friendly campus buzzing all day and night.
“A workplace is an important component of any mixed-use district,” Senior Vice President of Real Estate Operations Scott Frick told the Business Journal. “That’s why we’re really leading with the workplace first, as a way to keep the spaces active all throughout the day.”
The Weave building, which will include an eatery called the Market Hall on the first two floors, is scheduled to join the project’s first opening phase in late 2026, along with a concert hall, five restaurants and the first urban park, among other spaces.
Most of the development is expected to be completed in time for the LA28 Games.
“Henry and Susan (Samueli) and our executive team are really making an investment into having most of the restaurants ready to go in the first phase to be able to have this amazing amenity for companies. When they move in day one, they’re going to have access to this dynamic suite of dining,” Frick said. “I can’t tell you how much of a great leasing tool that is for me.”
Flexible office space will also be available next to the Market Hall and The Weave’s remaining four floors, about 35,000 square feet each, will be leased office spaces.
Executive Director of Development Dan Young, referred to as the “conductor” of OCVibe, told the Business Journal that the Weave was designed with the intention of enticing employees to return to an office environment.
“It really is going to be a masterpiece of how you integrate office space and social space, in a way that has been the subject of most commercial development ever since Covid,” he said.
Outdoor Accessibility
The Weave will be Orange County’s first mass timber office building, according to OCVibe officials.
Mass timber refers to the engineered, renewable wood used for building instead of steel, which results in a sustainable structure with exposed wood interiors.
Another notable feature: the building’s outdoor accessibility. The Weave was designed in a U-shape to make room for outdoor spaces such as a central courtyard and private balconies on every floor.
“That ensures that every single person in that building is, in effect, on or near the window,” Young said.
Frick added: “You can take advantage of our greatest asset, which is the weather in Southern California.”
Young said that other parts of OCVibe, such as the urban parks or the Market Hall, can be considered an extension of the office, minutes away from a desk or conference room for employees.
“They want to be able to get up from their seat and stretch their legs and go into another environment and take their work with them,” he said.
Workforce Housing
With 2,250 apartments immediately north of the building, the developers hope to house some members of The Weave’s workforce as well.
“Economically, this is super important to both the vision of the district and keeping consistent foot traffic and keeping it active,” Frick said.
The building’s food hall will have 21 vendors serving a variety of cuisines and is scheduled to come online just before tenants move into the offices. Young said that the idea for additional dining came after considering the expected volume of people attending events at the Honda Center or the upcoming concert venue.
He added that they spent almost the last two years selecting chefs, ranging from professionals to beginners, to fill the Market Hall.
“It’s what’s critical for the financial feasibility of a destination like this: you have to have people arriving for a variety of reasons, not just because they have two tickets in their pocket,” Young said.
Possible Gondolas from OCVibe to Disney?
The city of Anaheim is talking with the startup Swyft Cities about potentially building an aerial gondola system to transport visitors from the Platinum Triangle to the Anaheim Resort District, the Anaheim Investigator reported in early September.
Mountain View-based Swyft has also been in talks with the city of Irvine about installing gondolas at the Great Park, a project that doesn’t look likely to liftoff.
The company also approached OCVibe executives about supporting a stop at the 100-acre site currently under construction (see page 1).
“We’re very enthusiastic about it, because what if you could pick up a five-to-10-minute gondola ride from Downtown Disney or Disneyland to OCVibe?” said Dan Young, OCVibe’s executive director of development.
If the city moves forward with Swyft, Young noted that OCVibe could host a gondola stop at the ARTIC train station, which is about three miles from Disneyland.
“We think that it would be an exciting and fun and entertaining means by which we can get people off the roads,” Young added.
Plans are already underway to create a walkway and a pedestrian bridge from the ARTIC over Katella Avenue to the Honda Center, eliminating the need to cross the busy street.
“In linking those things in a master plan way, it really is going to create this amazing environment where you’re going to want to take the train and step off and walk right through a park and right into OCVibe,” Young said. “Those are linkages that we spent a lot of time working on.”
The bridge from the transportation hub to the arena is slated for completion in 2028.
—Emily Santiago-Molina
OCVibe: The Facts
- What: A modern urban village built around sports and entertainment for Orange County residents. Will feature shopping, dining, sports, entertainment, a concert hall, open space, a hotel, apartments and offices such as The Weave.
- Developer: Anaheim Real Estate Partners LLC, a company of Anaheim Ducks owners and Honda Center operators Henry and Susan Samueli
- Total acres: 100
- Cost: $4 billion
- Key contractors: Hathaway Dinwiddie is the general contractor of The Weave with Smith-Clementi and House & Robertson Architects (HRA) working together as the architect team and designers.
- Completion: The goal is to get most of the project online in time for LA28.
The Timeline
2025: Two multi-level parking garages surrounding the Honda Center will open.
2026-2027: Opening of Market Hall, five restaurants, a 5,700-person performance venue, The Weave office building, Urban Park.
2027: Opening of new outdoor spaces South Plaza, The Gardens and parking garage A.
2028: Opening of a hotel, Golden Bear concert venue, Meadow Park, Neighborhood Park, South Plaza retail spaces, and a pedestrian bridge on Katella to connect Honda Center to nearby ARTIC train station.
2029: First set of residential units will open.
2030+: Opening of second hotel, additional residential units and North Plaza
