Projects, developments and other activity in cities in and around OC
Plans are in place for a 57-home development near West Central Avenue and Berry Street. Trumark Homes, an Irvine-based division of Trumark Group of Cos. in Danville, got the green light from the city for its project late last year. Plans call for single-family, two-story houses ranging from two to four bedrooms. The plan includes homes up to 1,900 square feet. Prices are expected to start at about $500,000. Irvine-based Bucilla Group Architecture Inc. is the architect. Sales could begin in early 2012.
Sixteen homes are being built at Magnolia Street and Talbert Avenue. The three-acre development calls for 16 single-family homes on the former site of a church. Developer Brandywine Homes of Irvine plans to open model homes by the summer. The project is slated to be done by 2012. Prices are expected in the $800,000 to $1 million range. Designs include single-story, four-bedroom homes and two-story, five-bedroom models. Brandywine is targeting “move-up” buyers who have outgrown their old homes. The lead architect is Irvine-based LSA Architecture Inc. Brandywine Homes is building the homes. Construction costs are estimated at about $14 million. The development is the company’s first in Fountain Valley.
Alicia Towne Plaza at Alicia Parkway east of the San Diego (I-5) Freeway is getting a makeover. A former Mervyns department store is being converted into an LA Fitness gym. Irvine-based LA Fitness Inc. signed a 15-year lease at the two-story, 83,857-square-foot building. The first floor is set to include a pool, racquetball and basketball courts, locker rooms and an aerobics studio. The second floor will have exercise equipment. Construction is expected to finish in May. The entire plaza also is set to get upgrades including new facades, signs and landscaping. S.D. Deacon of Irvine is the general contractor. The architect is Orange-based Architects Orange. Santa Monica-based Watt Properties Inc. is the developer. Total construction costs are expected to be $6 million or more.
Foundations are being poured at an apartment complex at Sand Canyon Avenue and Irvine Boulevard. The apartments are part of an affordable housing project led by Irvine-based Jamboree Housing Corp., a group that specializes in low-cost housing. The first phase calls for 60 apartment units ranging from one to three bedrooms. The initial phase is expected to finish in October at an estimated cost of $17 million. The second phase is expected to add more than 70 units. Newport Beach-based Irvine Company has partnered with Jamboree Housing on the project. San Diego-based Wermers Multi-Family Corp. is the general contractor. The architect KTGY Group Inc. of Irvine.
Construction crews are clearing out rain basins at the site of a civic center planned on MacArthur Boulevard and San Miguel Drive. December’s heavy rains filled the silt basins to capacity and threatened to flood the soil. Construction on the civic center is set to resume once the basins have been cleared. Anaheim-based Bomel Construction Co. plans to build a parking structure, which is the first phase of the project. The second phase includes a new City Hall, a 16-acre park and the expansion of an existing library. Pasadena-based C.W. Driver is the managing construction company. Pennsylvania’s Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is the architect. Officials have received bids for all the work and will award the remaining contracts soon. The project is expected to cost $128 million altogether and open in late 2012.
