Across the street from the Water Garden in Santa Monica, a low-rise office complex is set to give way to housing.

The project at 1655 26th Street, recently filed with Santa Monica planners for review, comes from applicant and property owner 1655 Property, LLC. Plans call for clearing all existing improvements to make way for the construction of a new eight-story building featuring 401 apartments above 2,070 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and semi-subterranean parking for 419 vehicles.

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Plans call for a mix of studio, one-, and two-bedroom dwellings, with 41 to be set aside as affordable housing at the moderate-, low-, and very low-income levels in exchange for density bonus incentives.

AC Martin remains the designing the proposed development, which is portrayed in plans as a contemporary podium-type building with an exterior of stucco, brick veneer, and metal wrapping a central courtyard. Plans also show a rooftop deck.

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The proposed development would rise across the street from a site at 1633 26th Street where AC Martin is working with Mill Creek Residential on plans for a similar multifamily residential complex.

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