Costa Mesa : 2 More Phases of Lakes Project OKd by Council

Two more phases of the Lakes Project--a hotel, commercial, retail, residential project east of the Town Center--have been approved by the City Council.

One phase is a six-story, 237-room hotel with a restaurant and parking garage. The second includes plans for two buildings, totaling 20,800 square feet of commercial, retail and restaurant space.

The project by Santa Ana-based Sakioka Farms and Torrance-based Transpacific Development Co. also calls for an additional hotel, which has already been approved, and a 770-unit condominium project.

The latest hotel to win approval is planned near Avenue of the Arts. It includes a two-story restaurant and a three-story, 329-space parking structure, assistant planner Kristen Caspers said.

The bottom level of the 14,500-square-foot restaurant will be the main dining room, and the top will be meeting rooms and an entertainment lounge, Caspers said. A man-made pond, crisscrossed by walkways, will connect the buildings.

Construction is scheduled to begin in May.

The commercial project, which is scheduled to begin by April, calls for two, one-story, commercial-retail-restaurant buildings at the northeast corner of Anton Boulevard and Avenue of the Arts. One of the buildings will contain a 4,200-square-foot restaurant, and the other will have a 7,100-square-foot restaurant, Caspers said.