San Diego High-Rise Will Include 400 Apartments
This most relentlessly suburban of cities is getting a distinctly urban residential complex right in the heart of downtown.
The Courtyard, a $52-million mixed-used residential and retail complex designed by Johnson Fain & Pereira Associates for Tutor-Saliba/Paragon, will have 400 apartments in a 40-story Beaux Arts-style tower--making it one of the city’s tallest buildings when it is completed in 1991.
The City Council and the Centre City Development Corp. (CCDC) chose the joint-venture development team of Tutor-Saliba/Paragon in a fierce competition with two other joint-venture teams.
Tutor-Saliba is based in Sylmar, while Paragon Group, the joint-venture partner, is based in Dallas.
The project’s design, by the Los Angeles-based architectural firm responsible for the landmark Transamerica pyramid in San Francisco, was cited as a major factor in the section of Tutor-Saliba/Paragon, according to CCDC official Max Schmidt.
The complex includes a narrow, 40-story tower, positioned to preserve views of San Diego Bay, 80,350 square feet of retail and four levels of parking.
According to the Heinz A. Schilling of Keyser Marston Associates Inc., a CCDC consultant, there are 1,291 completed condominiums and apartments in the Marina and Columbia areas; 475 units under construction and 844 proposed, including the 400 units in The Courtyard.
