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Never heard of them. I'll do some research.
Thank you though. :) |
i heard carlsbad rejected the desalination plant, is this true?
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How smart of them. :)
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7th & Market
New renderings for the 7th & Market mixed-use project...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...PlanItem51.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ePlanItem5.jpg um...it brings height to the area...and um...I don't know. I guess I like it. It's definitely unique. I don't know if it's the CCDC website or my internet, but I can't read the PDF's for the redesigned Cosmopolitan Square, which looks like is gonna happen after all (Thank God!). But from the looks of it, a hotel will be incorporated w/ about 211 rooms and the number of condos is gonna be reduced from 290 to 113 or somethin like that. Everything else about the project is basically the same except slightly more commercial space was added (office & retail). |
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According to CCDC, Strata has also officially started construction.
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RE: 7th & Market. The thing looks gigantic! The lot that it's proposed on doesn't look big enough for this project. |
^^^ It's a nice looking building. Anyone know which side faces Market and the other side Island? I suspect the side with the bulbed street corners is Island.
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The $300 million project -- contained on a single block -- will have 42 stories of market rate and affordable housing, hotel, retail, street-front commercial and cultural space and a police storefront. The developers will build a 650-vehicle public parking garage that will be owned and operated by CCDC and the Redevelopment Agency. Affordable housing units will be dispersed throughout the tower. Three levels of private underground parking will serve residents and tenants. Above, six levels of public parking will be enveloped and masked by the residences. |
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A CCDC pre-design subcommittee will review a couple projects on the 6th. One is Kettner & Ash.... just north of Saphire and east and across the tracks from Bayside. It looks nice.
Kettner & Ash http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...tnerandAsh.jpg |
I believe that's another Bosa development, right?
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Btw, I wish there was a plan to replace the Holiday Inn hotel towers along the embarcadero... between Harbor and Pacific Highway... north of Broadway and south of Ash. They have a semi decent blueish paint job that kinda masks their ugliness and out-of-dateness..., but I see right through it an cringe. They are an embarrassment to the downtown San Diego waterfront; our front porch.
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There's no question that Kettner & Ash is another Bosa project. It looks nice enough, but I sure hope it doesn't look too much like their Bayside tower across the street.
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Kettner & Ash looks a little thick (very much unlike Sapphire) but is otherwise quite nice. That part of downtown is going to be so impressive once all those buildings go up.
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Kettner & Ash
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The site is owned by a large hotel REIT, FELCOR HOTEL ASSET COMPANY (www.felcor.com) and it probably makes a good amount of money as is. I wish that they would paint it at least. The pink and blue color scheme is a little dated.
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Hey there I dont post much but am check up on the forum daily to get my fix of downtown development. I live in the Icon and I feel like I have this great opportunity to see a neighborhood come alive. All we need are som more retail opportunities and the area will be great. Also they seriously need to get this Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge started. I want to be able to go to the new bayfront park by the Hilton once it is completed. So anything new on the rumor of a Trader Joe's going into the bottom floor of the TR Produce building?
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This is just my opinion, but I'm sure in the future (15-20 years at most), that the industrial area southeast of the Hilton site will be bought out or something and converted into more highrise development and hopefully some nice waterfront parks.
Now all we need is a 40/40 Club. ;) |
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If anyone has info on the TR produce ground level market, please let us know ;) |
7th and Market, my two cents
Overall, like it. It will defniately bring density into that area, the south side of Market is really starting to fill-out, but it is starting to look one-sided if you look down Market facing west because all the towers are on the south side :) The one complaint would be that it looks kind of busy. I really like the glass top of the tower, it look smuch better than in the old renderings Any word on the timeline of this one getting off the ground? It would look REALLY good if Cosmo was to go up right behind it ;) I have not given up hope for Cosmo Square, I have a feeling it might actually come through after all |
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So hopefully they will fold under pressure. ;)
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I think I need to see another rendering of Kettner and Ash before I make a decision as to whether or not I like it.
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This is an old rendering. Unfortunately as we have found, renderings are often wishful thinking; especially early renderings of this sort. |
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I don't think Kettner and Ash looks too bad.
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Just got off the phone with Setai in South Beach. That is the only other location that there is a hotel branded as a "Setai" they are part of GHM hotels which has 15 locations mostly in South East Asia! Kinda cool
I think it should bring a very interesting flair to downtown SD. THE BEST THING : She said that it is definitely a 5 star hotel at least the Miami Beach location. She said she didn't know if the San Diego location was going to be as luxurious and be dubbed a 5 star... Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope it is because then downtown SD will have 2 --- 5 star hotels. Ivy and Setai. Throw in the Grande Del Mar in Carmel Valley and SD County will have 5 --- five stars. Not bad. Here is the website: www.ghmhotels.com:cheers: Now if we get a Four Seasons, Shangri La, Ritz Carlton, or Mandarin Oriental downtown we will be ballin fo sho :yes: |
Here is the Setai in Miami Beach: 37 floors CONDO HOTEL http://images.unitedstates.biz/hotel...00/054271A.jpg
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lane field
These are some renderings of Lane Field I pulled off the port's latest addendum to the North Embarcadero environmental study. I think these are new, they have October 2007 dates.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2140/...3c8d93.jpg?v=0 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2358/...301a4c.jpg?v=0 The hotel on the south is Intercontinental, the north is called Vivara. |
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The Lane Field buildings look so...what's the word I'm looking for?
Oh yeah, they look bad. |
The Lane Field buildings don't look good. The combination of them, NBC, and 700 West Broadway makes me pessimistic about the future of our great city's skyline. Too boxy and little to no variation of height, especially on the waterfront.
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^Yeah, 700W Broadway doesn't please me at all in the rendering. I feel bad for OAP.
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Funny this picture doesn't show the 'fabulous' new cruise ship terminal on the Broadway Pier. Anyone been by that lately... I love those beautiful plastic orange terror barriers and that super classy chain link fence. Not to mention the awesome hardscape. The Port does such a classy job. It also will be so nice to have all those buses and taxi cabs driving all over the new North Embarcadero improvements. Can't wait. Grow up San Diego. |
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