Three years after acquiring an entitled development site in Santa Ana for $51-million, Ledcor Properties, Inc. has broken ground on a mixed-use residential complex at 1801 E. 4th Street.

Located on a previously vacant site just east of the I-5 Freeway, plans call for the construction of two five-story buildings wrapping central parking structures. When completed, the complex would include a combined 644 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, atop 15,000 square feet of street-fronting retail and restaurant space. Approved plans call for more than 1,300 parking spaces.

Aerial view of 1801 4th StreetHunter Kerhart Architectural Photography

KTGY is designing the contemporary low-rise buildings, which would include rooftop amenity decks above the planned parking structures.

The project is the latest in a recent series of large mixed-use development to rise east of Santa Ana's downtown neighborhood, including projects creating more than 900 affordable apartments along 1st Street.

Aerial view of 1801 4th StreetHunter Kerhart Architectural Photography

To the south near the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana officials have recently approved plans for even larger developments which would replace aging shopping centers with high-rise residential and commercial uses.

Other Ledcor projects in Southern California include the Shoreline Gateway development in Downtown Long Beach.

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