The Long Beach City Council has given the green light to an adaptive reuse project which would create new housing near the Cal State Long Beach campus.

The project, which is being developed by Fountain Residential Partners, would convert the 1980s Park Tower office building at 5150 Pacific Coast Highway  into 149 residential suites with space for up to 593 residents. Plans call for retaining 364 existing parking spaces.

Street-level view looking eastStudio One Eleven

Studio One Eleven is designing the project, which would maintain the seven-story building's glass exterior, while carving out new spaces for residents including a plaza, lounge areas, a splash pool. An existing surface parking lot abutting the building would give way to amenities, as well as the new construction of a small pavilion building.

Conversion of the Park Tower building into housing is expected to take approximately 15 months to be completed, upon the start of construction.

Street-level view looking southwestStudio One Eleven

The project is intended to address lack of available student housing for students at Cal State Long Beach, as well as those attending nearby institutions such as Long Beach City College. A report given earlier this year to the Long Beach Planning Commission notes that there are just three dormitories serving Cal State Long Beach, although the university broke ground last year on a $115-million project which will expand its student housing capacity by 424 beds, and plans for up to 1,600 in total through its campus master plan.

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