Catalina mixed-use project takes first step
An early rendering of the Catalina Village mixed-use project, which took its first steps on Tuesday. Image by Beach City Capital by David Mendez A development plan to add 26 units of new housing to Redondo Beach took its first steps on Tuesday night, as the Redondo Beach City Council approved a reimbursement agreement with an environmental consultancy firm to produce an environmental review of the proposed mixed-use project. The Catalina Village project, as it is tentatively known in an investment memorandum produced by Beach City Capital, plans to build 26 residential units alongside 13,150 square feet of retail development. This is reduced from a previous plan that sought to build 30 units and 15,000 square feet of retail. The project is planned for the site of the long-closed Catalina Coffee Company cafe and restaurant, as well as a nearby warehouse, existing retail businesses, and former dry cleaners, and is immediately adjacent to an existing housing development located on Broadway. According to staff, developers for the project are proposing adaptive reuse of the existing buildings, in part to ask for a historic district overlay on the site to maintain existing retail uses…
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