The Carlsbad city council approved more apartments to be built at the entry to the downtown village area. Between the three projects mentioned here, there will be a total of 480 apartments….and none for sale! Excerpts:
A four-story building with 156 apartments has been approved for construction on a site occupied by a hotel and three single-family homes on the eastern side of Carlsbad’s downtown Village neighborhood.
The developer, Wermers Companies, built the adjacent Lofts apartments, a four-story, mixed-use building with 106 apartments and ground-floor retail that opened about a year ago at the northwest corner of Carlsbad Village Drive and Interstate 5. The two buildings will share a driveway with access to both Grand Avenue and Carlsbad Village Drive.
The Carlsbad City Council unanimously approved a site map and development plan for the project Tuesday, and council members praised the company for working with the community. No one at the meeting opposed the project, and the city received a number of letters in support of it.
“It looks good,” said Mayor Keith Blackburn, adding that he likes the way the building is set back from Carlsbad Village Drive so that it doesn’t make “a continuous wall” with The Lofts building.
“It doesn’t surprise me that we don’t have anybody here to speak out against the project,” Blackburn said.
The 2.95-acre site consolidates five lots between Carlsbad Village Drive and Grand Avenue, just east of the Hope Avenue alley. The 109-room hotel called the Carlsbad Village Inn and single-family homes on the property will be demolished, but a Carl’s Jr. restaurant there will remain.
The location is directly across Carlsbad Village Drive from the Carlsbad Village Plaza anchored by a Smart & Final grocery, where another San Diego developer has proposed a mixed-use project with 218 apartments and 13,800 square feet of shops and restaurants.
That project will include retail businesses in two single-story buildings facing Carlsbad Village Drive. The apartments, including 22 reserved for very low-income tenants, will be in two five-story buildings behind the shops. The proposal is expected to go to the Carlsbad City Council for approval as soon as July 2024.
Monotonic “mixed-use” is still all your eggs in one basket. Tastes change. I’m sure the owners are betting that the City Council either changes or the lure of a vastly enhanced tax base has these units going condo which changes the decision.
I really like Carlsbad. I think more than anything autonomous vehicles will make it even more desirable.
I don’t like more renters. I wish it was for sale condos instead but I understand that 100% of them always end up in court over a frivolous lawsuits and defect litigation. So all those that sued in the past are screwing those in the future.
” .. and none for sale!” — ugh
More corporate landlords, less American Dream…
oooof! we need the housing units, but yikes!! the traffic!!!
I think the city council is going about this piecemeal. Why not get a little more expansive? Pass an ordinance requiring all 1 story buildings or those over 20 years old to be immediately bulldozed, with the property owner compensated under eminent domain at an average sq. foot price for all of 92008. Then, sell the properties to the highest bidding developers from L.A. Oh, and also raise the height restriction to oh, I don’t know, 8 stories? 10 stories? Also, if there are any pesky regulations about parking space requirements per sq. foot, abolish them. There, wouldn’t that make for a more lovely “Village by the Sea”?
At the Lofts, they have a 2br/2ba, 1,054sf advertised for $4,545 per month.
So all those that sued in the past are screwing those in the future.
Yep, and the standard now for builders is to wait the ten years required for construction defects and then sell. But this guy says he only builds and holds.