Last summer, the Los Angeles Chargers opened "The Bolt," the team's new headquarters campus in El Segundo. In the near future, the property that served as the team's base of operations since moving to Los Angeles in 2017 is set to be transformed into a mixed-use complex including housing and commercial space. 

The Orange County Register reported last month that the project, called Hive Live, would be located along the northern edge of Costa Mesa. Developer Legacy Partners plans to raze an existing office campus - a 182,000-square-foot property completed in 2004 - to replace it with a three-phase development containing 1,050 homes, 3,692 square feet of commercial space, parking for 1,751 vehicles, and five acres of open space.

Rendering of Hive LiveAO

The project, which is set to phase the Costa Mesa Planning Commission this year, are to include 45 units of affordable housing.

AO is designing Hive Live, which would include three five-story structures wrapping central parking structures. The new buildings would be divided by open spaces and driveways, and incorporate amenities such as courtyards and swimming pools.

Rendering of Hive LiveAO

Construction is poised to commence in January 2026 and be completed over an eight-year period.

Hive Live is one of a handful of large mixed-use projects set to transform superblock sites located near the 405 Freeway in Orange County, including One Metro West, which is slated to bring more than 1,000 apartments to a site located a short distance west in Costa Mesta. Next door in Santa Ana, mixed-use developments from Hines and Related Cos. are poised to replace shopping centers with more than 5,000 apartments and commercial uses.

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