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Building Blocks
Stoutenborough Plans
Santa Ana Renovation
Stoutenborough, Inc., Architects and Planners, a mixed-use design specialist, completed a redevelopment study for the City of Santa Ana, California. The study, commissioned by the City of Santa Ana, is geared toward creating an architectural theme to enhance the look and visual unity of the south main corridor of the downtown business area.
Focused on one of the city’s principal thoroughfares, the study examines each property along the 800 block of South Main Street for potential low-cost facade and site upgrades. Stoutenborough used the focus block as a sample model.
“A particular challenge,” says Daniel P. Gehman, AIA, project manage,. “was finding ways to allow an exuberant expression of the new businesses in the neighborhood while honoring the overall urban design goals of the city. We feel that we’ve accomplished both these goals within our study.”
The study proposes simple, affordable image enhancements for each storefront, unified throughout the block by a suggested new neighborhood color scheme and a systematic approach to building signage. To promote the redevelopment program, the City of Santa Ana is reinstating its Facade Improvement Rebate Program, through which the city will reimburse property owners for up to half the cost of qualifying upgrades.
The results of the Stoutenborough study will be published by the city in a booklet to be distributed to area businesses by the recently organized South Main Street Merchants’ Association. The booklet is expected to serve as an inspiration and creative starting point for designers and owners of the individual properties.
Stoutenborough Inc. specializes in mixed-use, retail and entertainment complexes and offers design, planning, and working drawings to clients. Among the firm’s other exciting projects are: The Silicon Valley Wave, a one million-sq.ft. retail and entertainment project in the heart of Silicon Valley set to open in the summer of 2000; Jordan Landing, a 780,000-sq.ft. retail/entertainment project outside Salt Lake City scheduled to open this fall; and the 100,000-sq.ft. San Bernardino Entertainment Center, which is also scheduled to open this fall.
For more information, contact Stoutenborough, Inc., 3300 Irvine Avenue, Suite 200, Newport Beach, CA 92660; 949-955-3991, Fax 949-955-3998.
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