ULI Orange County/Inland Empire: Triple Win Redevelopment for Community, Local Businesses & City: Case Study on ULI Jack Kemp Award Nominee La Placita Cinco

When

2021-10-20
2021-10-20T15:30:00 - 2021-10-20T17:30:00
America/Los_Angeles

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    Where

    La Placita Cinco 2239 West 5th Street Santa Ana, CA 92703 United States

    Contact

    [email protected]

    6465190380

    Pricing

    Standard Pricing Until October 19 Members Non-Members
    Private $65.00 $90.00
    Public/Academic/Nonprofit $65.00 $90.00
    Retired $65.00 N/A
    Student $30.00 $45.00
    Under Age 35 $45.00 $65.00
    You’re invited! This is an excellent opportunity to see one of the WINNERS of the ULI Jack Kemp award. It’s a triple win redevelopment for the community, local businesses and the city for a case study of ULI Jack Kemp Award Winner La Placita Cinco. Join the Urban Land Institute of Orange County, which is hosting a special event on October 20 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at La Placita Cinco, located at 2239 West 5th Street in Santa Ana, CA. Hear from the developers, designers and the city how they transformed this strip shopping center into a vibrant mixed-use community of affordable housing. 
    ULI members will hear insights from the experts in a panel discussion, followed by tours and a reception with appetizers and drinks. This panel and tour will feature TCA Architects, Community Development Partners, City Fabrick, Wells Fargo and the City of Santa Ana. Tim Mustard, AIA, NCARB, partner, business development director, TCA Architects will moderate. Panelists include Kyle Paine, President, Community Development Partners; Brian Ulaszewski, LEED AP-Executive Director Principal, City Fabrick and Ali Pezeshkpour, Senior Planner, City of Santa Ana.

    The project exemplifies the essence of ULI, while providing much needed affordable housing to the City of Santa Ana, which provided $6 million in funding. La Placita Cinco repurposes the prototypical auto-oriented strip mall into a neighborhood-serving, inclusive community consisting of family-oriented affordable homes, outdoor amenities, and reinvigorated commercial center. Located in the Artesia Pilar neighborhood of Santa Ana near the newly anticipated OC Streetcar, the affordable housing and community development leverages the under-utilized land area of inefficient surface parking lot and dormant gas station to develop fifty affordable apartment homes oriented around a common courtyard, with community amenities and services on the ground floor.

    La Placita Cinco thoughtfully incorporated a public park and open space between the two commercial buildings and residential building; allowing for a variety of public uses such as gathering spaces for local patrons and workers, farmer’s markets, outdoor concerts and community gardening. La Placita Cinco is located next to the new light rail line called the OC Street Car. This project includes $6 million in funding from the City of Santa Ana.  

    The site, formerly called “Tiny Tim Plaza” is a 2.25-acre commercial property located at the northeast corner of Fifth Street and Hawley Street situated between a residential neighborhood to the north and east, and industrial and commercial uses to the south and west. This project is a great example of how developers can revitalize old strip shopping centers, especially ones anchored by gas stations. It checks all the boxes—it includes a $6 million grant from the city, it provides affordable housing, it’s mixed-use, it includes public art, it revitalizes a core neighborhood, while providing public space for community events. This program will offer valuable design and development tips, especially since we expect others will continue to redevelop aging strip malls across the nation. Since there are hundreds of under-utilized shopping centers just like this throughout Orange County, this ULI program will offer a lessons learned approach and explain how the concepts apply to other projects.
     
    Food, drinks and live music will be provided! 

    Speakers

    Ali Pezeshkpour

    City of Santa Ana - Planning and Building Agency - M20

    Ali Pezeshkpour is a Principal Planner with the City of Santa Ana and member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). He has been working for the City of Santa Ana since February 2011, where he oversees the Current Planning section of the Planning Division, which includes development processing, public counter, historic preservation and urban design, and cannabis programs. Recent, large transformative projects in which he is involved include the 603-unit mixed-use Elan project by Wermers Properties adjacent to the Santa Ana Zoo, the MainPlace Mall Specific Plan for mixed-use development by Centennial Real Estate, La Placita Cinco’s affordable residential and commercial center rehabilitation development by Community Development Partners, and the Rafferty project by Toll Brothers in Downtown Santa Ana, which will redevelop the former national headquarters of the First American Title Company building into a mixed-use and mixed-income residential development with commercial uses and historical 1930s façade preservation. In addition to working for the City, Ali serves as a part-time adjunct professor for the Rancho Santiago Community College District, teaching courses on urban planning and ordinance writing to aspiring code enforcement professionals. Prior professional positions include those with the cities of Sacramento and Colton, and with Mintier Harnish Planning Consultants. Ali holds bachelor’s degrees in Community & Regional Development and French from UC Davis and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from UC Irvine. When he is not planning, he enjoys playing the piano, traveling and camping, and cooking.

    Linda Nguyen

    VP Social Impact & Sustainability, Wells Fargo

    Linda Nguyen has dedicated her career to programs, development, and impact in education and economic equity in the public, social, and private sectors. She is vice president in social impact and sustainability at Wells Fargo where she supports philanthropic community reinvestment commitments and community development. Drawing from her lived experience and deep commitment to the community, Linda was an educator, an evaluator, and a policy advocate for public education, passing legislation impacting immigrant, homeless, and transitional age students. She served as an executive for the charitable arm of a metropolitan public housing authority, seeking to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Additionally, at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles she spearheaded parental education rights programming as part of a regional multicultural education collaborative. Throughout her career, Linda activated White House initiatives in underserved urban communities and consulted on competitive multimillion dollar grant programs for public agencies. She served in AmeriCorps, working on education initiatives for students experiencing homelessness in Denver. In addition to her work in the U.S., she executed projects with international NGOs in Central America, Tanzania, and Vietnam aiming to reduce poverty, promote gender equality, and develop global partnerships that aligned with the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. Linda studied at University of Notre Dame as a Gates Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles where she was a Hewlett Fellowship recipient, and California State University, Northridge for a Master in Public Administration with an emphasis on Nonprofit Leadership. She is a Grameen Global Fellow under the Bankers Without Borders Program, working with an NGO to develop a social enterprise. Her work has been recognized by American Banker Association Foundation Community Commitment Award for economic equity and with a Presidential Community Service Award. She is a member of several professional affiliates in education, evaluation, and public administration and on nonprofit Boards. Her pride and joy is family. She hopes to visit every state, every U.S. national park, and every continent someday.

    Kyle Paine

    Community Development Partners

    As President, Kyle supervises all acquisition sourcing and development activities through the California office. He oversees strategic relationships and forward planning. He ensures each project is executed to CDP standards through the cycles of development as well as overseeing the asset management of all CDP properties. Kyle is a Southern California native who studied Psychology and Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and later obtained his California Real Estate Broker’s License. Prior to joining CDP, Kyle was at Fairfield Residential, a national apartment developer, builder, and manager where he served as the Acquisition and Development Officer for the Pacific Northwest region and had comprehensive oversight of the sourcing of institutional grade market-rate and affordable development sites.

    Brian Ulaszewski

    Executive Director/Principal, City Fabrick

    Brian Ulaszewski has over two decades of experience working in the design and planning field on work spanning tactical interventions like pop-up plazas and parklets to building and landscape projects to regional-scale planning and state policy, all dedicated to improving communities Brian has extensive experience working with local governments, developers, affordable housing providers, and nonprofit organizations on a wide variety projects ranging graphic, environmental, building, landscape and urban design. He has also returned to teach within the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Department at the University of South California, School of Architecture. Brian is a recognized leader in city building, having been recognized by the American Planning Association – Los Angeles with the John Chase Visionary Award and invited to speak at several academic and industry publications.

    Tim Mustard

    Principal, TCA Architects

    Tim Mustard, AIA, brings more than 20 years of experience as architect, strategist, and mixed-use master planner with an emphasis on high density housing, including market rate, mixed income, affordable, workforce and senior housing. A hands-on leader recognized for both his business and technical acumen, Tim is a member of TCA’s executive committee, leading the firm’s continued expansion into new markets including hospitality and large scale mixed-use projects. As a proponent of technology and innovation, Tim is leading TCA’s pioneering adoption of virtual and augmented reality technology into all phases of the firm’s workflow. He is collaborating with the leaders in VR hardware and software, including HTC VIVE, IRIS VR and Kalloc Studios, pushing the limits of his profession and allowing the design teams, owners and key stakeholders to experience the built environment before it's actually built. Additional goals are to advance the design evolution of wood construction, while pushing the limits of high design, including modular and cross laminated timber (CLT) technology. A highly-respected and recognized thought leader in multifamily design, and is a frequent speaker at Urban Land Institue (ULI) national council events, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference (PCBC). Currently serving on the ULI Affordable and Workforce Housing Council and championing the application of market-rate housing ideas to affordable housing in innovative and cost-effective ways. With a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from California Polytechnic University, Pomona and licensed Architect in the state of California. A strong proponent of community service, Tim contributes his time and expertise to Habitat for Humanity of Orange County and is an active Board of Trustee for Olive Crest who transforms at risk children through safe families. Currently residing in Irvine, California with his wife and 2 adopted children.

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