909 Pine
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Long Beach, CA
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909 Pine one of the first new construction, micro-unit developments in Long Beach, having secured entitlements and is currently in the permitting process.
The 50-home project - a collaboration with Burnham Development and Young-Lewin Advisors, is intended to meet the need for “missing middle” housing opportunities, providing a price-point between traditional market-rate housing and subsidized homes with household income restrictions. The project leverages close proximity to job centers, shopping, community amenities, and a dense network of active transportation and transit facilities in Downtown Long Beach to reduce reliance on vehicle parking, creating a compact, amenity-rich development intended to serve an unmet price-point for affordability.
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Planning + Policy
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The six-story building is to be situated on a single, standard parcel that allows for replication with iteration based on immediate context conditions. The majority of the units are oriented towards the south with a view over low-slung buildings, and Pine Avenue, the Downtown’s Main Street. The floor plans are designed with interlocking restrooms that provide the units with spacious, flexible living spaces. Amenity spaces include a lobby that doubles as a co-working space, wellness studio, and upper level community living room. The interior spaces are designed as clean, yet familiar aesthetics that reinforce the simple, minimalist living of likely residents.
Landscape Architecture
The community amenities are located on various multiple levels, linked through cascading outdoor spaces that include the roof deck, courtyard level, and street level patio. The ground floor patio provides and indoor-outdoor relationship to the lobby and co-working space with an aesthetic that carries through to create a single space. Similarly the wellness studio is flanked by the verdant courtyard and south patio, while the tiering roof decks offer a variety of social spaces with living rooms, lounges, and outdoor kitchens and dining rooms.
