CITY FABRICK

AFFORDABLE HOUSINGArchways Santa Ana, completed in 2024, offers 85 affordable homes in Santa Ana, including units for extremely low-income households and permanent supportive housing. Three buildings surround interconnected paseos, courtyards, and a mini park, creating spaces that encourage connection and community. City Fabrick partnered with Community Development Partners on community engagement, schematic-level landscape, building, and graphic design, helping shape a development thats both functional and welcoming. With amenities like a community room, play areas, garden beds, and easy access to public transit, Archways Santa Ana demonstrates how thoughtful design supports residents well-being and long-term stability.Construction has wrapped up on the first phase of Community Develop?ment Partners adaptive reuse of a former Motel 6 property into over forty permanent supportive homes for formerly unsheltered residents in Costa Mesa. Soon after opening, california Governor Gavin Newsom toured the new community to showcase the success of the Homekey program, which is providing financial and regulatory support for similar hotel to permanent supportive homes conversions. The Governor shared his admiration to local officials, CDP, and partner Mercy House for the success of this development to transform a formerly blighting property into a community asset. The expanded design will continue repositioning the former auto-oriented motel into an integrated, supportive community for those most in need of affordable, dignified homes. The new outdoor spaces will include an outdoor living room and sun deck offering these residents unique experiences to enjoy and build social connections with their neighbors. Mesa Vista Phase 2 is scheduled to start construction at the beginning of 2025.

GREAT PARKS AND PLACES ENVISION LONG BEACH PARKSCity Fabrick is collaborating with our community partners and the City of Long Beach to imagine the future of Scherer Park and Martin Luther King Jr. Park. In front of a crowd of community supporters the Long Beach City Council recently approved the Martin Luther King Jr. Park vision plan. With support from the Long Beach Alliance for Food and Fitness and Resource Legacy Fund we collaborated with residents and community partners to consider the current park conditions and imagine the future of the park to servecurrent and prospective users. Emerging from that community design process is the new Friends of King Park, who will be champions for the vision plans implementation and stewards for its sustained vibrancy. On the heels of the adoption of King Park Vision Plan the Long Beach City Council approved the second one for Scherer Park. We were fortunate tocollaborate with Long Beach Parks, Recreation, and Marine and the Boysand Girls Club of Long Beach to engage residents, partners, and park users how the park can evolve to continue serving the community and even improve the park user experience. The central tenant of reimagining the park was to utilize the large scale of the park and unique configuration to create unique park experiences. This includes creating hubs of activity while withdrawing activity to create passive natural spaces that host verdant landscapes, and dense tree canopies that collectively create a vibrant wildlife habitat amongst this largely built-out community.