Posted Jul 31, 2015, 3:01 PM
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More highrises headed downtown
Civic San Diego, the city's downtown development-review arm, approved three high-rise projects Wednesday and made legal adjustments to two others.
Most attention was focused on a 253-apartment project at 330 13th Street, just east of the Central Library with its iconic dome.
Directors granted design approval after reviewing nine requests for deviations from various design guidelines, but nixed a light-saber-looking blue light that architect Mark Kirkhart had proposed to accentuate the top floors of the 22-story building.
The project, estimated to cost from $100 million to $125 million, is a project of Richman Group of California, whose president, Luke Daniels, previously was involved with another company's redevelopment plans for the Tops nightclub/China Camp restaurant property on Pacific Highway at Hawthorn Street, now being replaced by a hotel.
DesignARC is the architect with library architect Rob Quigley responsible for an adjacent three-story building, "The Sliver," that will include a ground-floor restaurant and two apartments.Other highlights include a 19-floor "Sky Lounge," hotel-style pool and, on the fourth floor, a spa, hotel-style pool, fire pits, two-level recreation center and gym and demonstration kitchen. Jennifer Ayala, a nonvoting member of CivicSD's real estate committee to offer design critiques, is acting as a project manager through her firm, Nexus Planning Consultants, and would recuse herself from voting on this project. Spurlock Poirier is the landscape architectural firm.
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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...s-civic-hotel/
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