developed Vivo<\/a>, a similar project that opened in February at Harbor Boulevard and Fifth Street, just \u00a0north of the new site and across from the Battleship Iowa Museum.<\/p>\nDubbed \u201cJules,\u201d this new project will take up a full city block from Sixth to Seventh streets and from Beacon to Palos Verdes streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe liked the Jules Verne connection with \u201920 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,\u2019\u201d Valente said of the name, adding that it also had a \u201csymbiotic connection\u201d to nearby AltaSea and the marine research being done there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited about where San Pedro is heading,\u201d Valente said, mentioning the West Harbor development, improvements at the Cabrillo Marina, the Battleship Iowa\u2019s planned visitor center, and the discoveries and ongoing growth at AltaSea.<\/p>\n
The new Jules development will be eight stories high, with parking on the ground floor, along with retail spaces that will include a restaurant or cafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could be a restaurant or a cafe or a \u2018grab-and-go\u2019 concept,\u201d Valente said. \u201cWe\u2019re working with a broker on it, the same one who helped us find Colossus Bakery (for Vivo), and are in discussions with various tenants.\u201d<\/p>\n
The development calls for 281 studio, one- and two-bedroom units, all at market rate, with no set-aside\/dedicated lower-cost units.<\/p>\n
Included is 1,276 square feet of ground floor commercial space (at the corner of Beacon and Sixth streets).<\/p>\n
The plan also calls for 363 parking spaces to be located in an above-grade garage. Courtyards would be included above the parking deck in the contemporary, podium-style building.<\/p>\n
But the development will also come with what will be a painful change in San Pedro: the loss of the Green Onion Mexican Restaurant, a port town favorite since it began operation 30 years ago. It is housed in one of the city redevelopment buildings slated for demolition \u2014 and there are no plans currently to reopen it elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The owner, Bob Sanjabi, now 91, turned down an offer to move into a commercial space as part of the Jules development.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would have loved to have them,\u201d Valente said, \u201cbut the retail space is much smaller, about one-third of their size, so that would have made it difficult (for them).\u201d<\/p>\n
The public is invited to a farewell party at the Green Onion from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12. Mariachis and other activities are planned.<\/p>\n
The restaurant\u2019s official closing day \u2014 tentatively, at this point \u2014 looks to be Friday, Nov. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another residential-commercial mixed-use development \u2014 with apartments and ground floor retail \u2014 is slated to begin construction early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,1335,131,133,132,47,137,100,1439],"class_list":{"0":"post-49704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-pedro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}