SAN DIEGO—JPI will soon break ground on what's being called “a new gateway to Mission Bay” with the development of Jefferson Pacific Beach, a $103.5-million mixed-use community that will include 172 luxury apartment homes and 14,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and creative-office space. The nearly 3-acre site will feature three levels of podium construction and is being designed by Carrier Johnson + CULTURE.

Duane Hagewood, project manager for Carrier Johnson + CULTURE, tells GlobeSt.com, “The Jefferson Pacific Beach project— its architecture and public improvements including streetscapes, traffic control, and new open plaza—create a vital gateway to Mission Bay that encourages outdoor activity and creates a pedestrian friendly atmosphere. The project also activates Mission Bay Drive with new commercial uses and residential space.”

Jefferson Pacific Beach is the latest mixed-use project the firm is working on in the San Diego market. As we recently reported, the company's design principal and partner Michael Johnson told us Carrier Johnson is also working on the University of California-San Diego's 66,000-square-foot space in Vancouver-based Holland Partner Group's Park & Market development Downtown. The developer recently broke ground on Park & Market, a 562,000-square-foot mixed-use development designed by Carrier Johnson for San Diego's East Village neighborhood. The $275-million development combines residential, office, retail and a UC-San Diego campus extension, at a site just five blocks from Petco Park baseball stadium.

JPI says Carrier Johnson's design for Jefferson Pacific Beach will be innovative and leading edge, with unique amenities such as a surfboard repair/DIY station and watersport storage space. In addition, the project includes upgrading and adding traffic signals to the Mission Bay Dr. corridor with an “adaptive traffic signalization” system, allowing real-time traffic coordination for more efficient traffic flow on the busy avenue.

The project will be located directly adjacent to Mission Bay Park. Developed from the 1940s through the 1960s, Mission Bay Park is the largest aquatic park of its kind in the country. It consists of more than 4,600 acres in roughly equal parts land and water. Mission Bay boasts 27 miles of shoreline, 19 of which are sandy beaches with eight locations designated as official swimming areas. Annual attendance in the park is estimated at 15 million.

According to San Diego City Council member Lorie Zapf, “Jefferson Pacific Beach will be the catalyst for great improvements to the Mission Bay corridor. I look forward to watching this project break ground and offer much-needed housing in Pacific Beach.”

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