Wermers Pours Foundation For Luxury Apartments
Nielsen Dillingham Builders has been given a contract to provide construction management services for the construction of Del Rio Community School and Valley Community School in Imperial County. The cost of construction for the two new continuation schools is projected at $18 million.
Valley Community School covers 40,142 square feet of new construction of three classroom module buildings, two independent study buildings, and an administration building, located in El Centro.
The Del Rio Community School range of work includes 27,051 square feet of new construction of two independent study buildings, two classroom module buildings, and an administration building, situated in Brawley. The schools are scheduled for completion in the summer of 2002.
The project architect is HMC Architecture. The design consultants include Burkett & Wong, Merrick & Associates and Johnson Consulting Engineers.
Wermers Multi-Family Corp. has completed all utility installation and has started pouring foundation for Waterford Place, located in Dublin, Calif.
The luxury apartment house/mixed-use project will have 390 units of multi-family housing, and about 12,500 square feet of retail space. The project will consist of six buildings, five apartment buildings and a recreation center, and a 714-space parking structure.
City of Orange-based Architects Orange is the project architect. The major subcontractors include Conco Cement Co. of Concord, Calif.; Teichert Construction of Stockton, Calif.; Helix Electric, Metal Works of Oroville, Calif.; BKF Engineering and Lowney Associates of San Ramon, Calif.
County Offices Improved
Johnson & Jennings General Contracting has finished Phase I of tenant improvement for the 40,000-square-foot offices of the county of San Diego located on the fourth, seventh and eighth floors in the 225 Broadway building in Downtown San Diego.
The project consists of $1.5 million of construction for a new computer/data room and restrooms. San Diego-based Sentre Partners Property Management is the property manager of the 22-story, multi-tenant high-rise building.
The project manager was Mike Harrison for Johnson & Jennings with Butch Miller as on-site superintendent.
Founded in 1981, the firm employs a staff of 34 in headquarters located at 6165 Greenwich Drive in Governor Park in San Diego. Johnson & Jennings General Contracting is a San Diego-based general contracting firm specializing in corporate office, retail, health care and industrial facility tenant improvements.
Keeton Construction has finished construction for Mission Medical Center, a 24,783-square-foot medical office condominium development located at Highway 79 South and Margarita Road in Temecula.
The medical plaza has two, two-story buildings. The building, costing approximately $4.3 million, consists of steel frame, wood in-fill and stucco.
The project manager was Dr. Walt Combs.
Dental Plaza Completed
Keeton Construction has finished construction of the new 10,064-square-foot Chaparral Medical Dental Plaza in the Winchester Meadows Shopping Center at 40285 Winchester Road in Temecula.
The new facility includes four single-story buildings incorporating wood frame and stucco construction. In addition, the new complex features parapet walls with cornice details, a gray glass storefront, and walkways with exterior seating.
The principal in charge for Keeton Construction was Bruce G. Keeton, with Paul Ramsey as project manager and Mike Greiser as project superintendent.
Sundt Construction Inc. and Trans West Housing Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for the townhomes and office center portion of the City Heights Redevelopment Project at Fairmount and University avenues in City Heights.
The construction of the 475,000-square-foot project cost about $26 million. The project consists of a six-story office and retail building, 116 townhome units ranging from 832 square feet to 1,280 square feet, and a below-grade parking structure for 192 vehicles. The project also will have an additional four-story, 370-space parking structure.
The developer for the City Heights project is Trans West Housing Group.
San Diego’s central animal shelter on Gaines Street near Old Town is nearing the end of construction. The construction of the design-build project began in May 2000 by Sundt Construction Inc. The facility will provide sheltering and patrol services for the central area of San Diego, and house all the county Department of Animal Control’s administrative offices.
Vasquez + Marshall was the architect for the 38,000-square-foot facility. George Miers, a San Francisco-based architect, was the programming design architect for the new facility.
Bilbro Construction Co., a San Diego-based general contracting firm, has concluded a contract with Stepstone Real Estate Services to afford tenant improvements for John Burnham & Co. Insurance, located in Symphony Towers at 750 B St., Suite 2400 in Downtown San Diego.
The remodeling project totaling about 19,000 square feet is estimated at $575,000, according to Rob Bilbro, president of Bilbro Construction Co.
The project consists of complete demolition of existing improvements to shell condition and complete build back. All perimeter offices were constructed with glazed front walls to allow natural light to filter into the interior areas.
The project manager was Doug Mellinger of Bilbro Construction, with John Batis as superintendent.
Carlsbad-based Grant General Contractors recently concluded the $2.5 million new library/technology structure for grades K-12 at the Santa Fe Christian School.
The project, located at 838 Academy Drive in Solana Beach, included the construction of a 15,208-square-foot, two-story masonry and steel building.
The construction team was lead by Grant General’s Paul Przybysz as project manager and Dave O’Brien as superintendent along with the architectural firm of HMC Architects.
Subcontractors on the job included Doug Allen Plumbing, Dynalectric, West Coast Fire, Superior Roofing and Aztec Sheet Metal.
New School In Poway
Poway Unified School District’s Westview High School is being built by Douglas E. Barnhart, Inc. The project will include approximately 211,000 square feet in 18 buildings on a 63-acre site. In addition to classrooms, laboratories, resource areas, a performing arts center, fine arts studios, and administration spaces, the new school will incorporate a football stadium with concrete bleachers, a 40,000-square-foot gymnasium and locker room facilities, basketball and tennis courts, as well as baseball, softball and other sports fields.
NTD Architects in San Diego designed the school, with Richard Nowicki, Mark Thomas, Joye Ferrar and Sami Conley staffing the project. Completion is scheduled for September 2002.
San Diego County-based subcontractors include Airgas, Alpha Mechanical, Architectural Accent, A & S; Striping, Astra Flooring, Atlas Fence, Builders Appliance Supply, C & D; Signs, Challenger Sheet Metal, Diversified Window Coverings, Insulcom Contractors, J & B; Surveying, Kone Elevators, Maday/O’Donnell, McKinley Equipment, McMahon Steel, Prior Products, Quality Reinforcing, Quality Sealants, Magnesite Specialties, Morton Equipment Supply, New Dimension Masonry, Nick Pecoraro Painting, Gary Raub, RDM Tile, Romero General Construction Corp., Seating Concepts, S.G. Plastering, Sierra Pacific West, Simplex/Grinnell, Source Floors, South Bay Foundry, Spooners Building Materials, Standard Drywall, Standard Structures, Steiny & Co., Temecula Mechanical, and J.P. Witherow Roofing Co.
Barnhart also has finished more than $3.4 million in renovations to the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey.
The work involved renovating the entire kitchen, private dining area, main entry lobby and lounge, 11th-floor club lounge, lobby corridor, development of a new business center, conversion of a dining room into a junior ballroom, and renovation of a lower level meeting room. The project also will have some renovations including architectural woodwork, stonework, drywall/metal studs, painting and wall coverings, plumbing and electrical systems.
The construction manager was Ritz Carlton of Cumming LLC of Los Angeles, and Kluger Kollin of Tustin was the architect.
Real Estate Sales
Property: 5469-5473 Kearny Villa Road, San Diego
Seller: American International Group
Selling agents: Don Mitchell and Paul LaFrenz of CB Richard Ellis represented the seller and the buyer.
Buyer/square footage: The Shidler Group purchased a 135,000-square-foot office building for $16.3 million.
Property: 5252 Orange Ave., San Diego
Seller: FSF Parkridge Village Associates, LLC
Selling agents: Jules Arthur and Paul Runkle of Hendricks & Partners represented the seller. The buyer represented itself.
Buyer/square footage: Elkor Realty Corp. purchased a 104-unit apartment complex for $6.31 million.
Property: NWC Fifth Ave. and F St.
Seller: Keating Properties, LLC
Selling agents: Travis Ahern of Cotton Ritchie Corp. represented the seller. Ty Considine of Sperry Van Ness represented the buyer.
Buyer/square footage: Gaslamp Properties, LLC purchased a 36,000-square-foot building for $4.6 million.
Real Estate Leases
Property: 599 Telegraph Canyon Road, Chula Vista
Lessor: Canyon Gateway Plaza, LLC
Leasing agents: The lessee represented itself. Joe Yetter and Chuck Klein of BRE Commercial/NAI represented the lessor.
Lessee/square footage: Mission Federal Credit Union signed a 120-month, $1.18 million lease for 4,000 square feet of retail space.
Property: 856 Grand Ave., San Diego
Lessor: CKE Restaurants, Inc.
Leasing agents: Joe Yetter and Mike Clark of BRE Commercial/NAI represented the lessee and the lessor.
Lessee/square footage: Hotcakes No. 15, Inc. signed a 60-month, $517,500 lease for 5,058 square feet of restaurant space.
Property: 5741 Pacific Center Blvd., San Diego
Lessor: Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
Leasing agents: Ty Moffett of CB Commercial represented the lessee. Glenn Arnold of BRE Commercial/NAI represented the lessor.
Lessee/square footage: Vertel Corp. signed a 36-month, $318,636 lease for 6,861 square feet of office space.
