SUN COUNTRY BUILDERS GIVES BACK
Sun Country’s Giving Back program took us to a Turnagain Arms, a Community HousingWorks property in Fallbrook, CA, where Sun Country staff members and their families spent a Saturday doing maintenance work. Thanks, CHW for giving us the opportunity to give back.
SUN COUNTRY BUILDERS PROJECTS HONORED AT 2018 PCBC GOLD NUGGET AWARDS
Sun Country Builders congratulates Community HousingWorks and BRIDGE Housing on their 2018 Gold Nugget Awards nominations. We look forward to seeing everyone at PCBC in San Francisco.
DEVELOPMENT PARTNER OF THE YEAR
at the 2017 Ruby Awards
home. The annual Ruby Awards is the county’s largest affordable housing industry recognition event honoring the best people, projects, and achievements during the past year.
housed.
SDSU CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STUDENTS VISIT WORK SITE
for the field work was the North Park Seniors project in San Diego, of which Community HousingWorks is the developer.
Construction Engineering program:
http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/majors/construction.htm
HONORED AT 2016 PCBC GOLD NUGGET AWARDS
Providing badly needed housing for veterans’ and their
GENERAL CONTRACTOR FOR HISTORY-MAKING COMMUNITY
North Park Seniors in the News
ON SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER COMPLETION
Sun Country Builders was brought into the project early, and was able to work with the developer and the architect to manage the project budget, to eliminate surprises, and to meet project goals.
The community is comprised of four stories on a podium with 120 apartments.
TOURS IOWA STREET SENIORS PROJECT
Construction Engineering is a new program in the SDSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The program is supported by a generous endowment from the San Diego chapter of the Associated General Contractors.
Sun Country Builders has been building multi-family projects in Southern California for more than 30 years, and has specialized in affordable housing projects since the early 1980s. Iowa Street Seniors, with 120 apartments in four stories on a concrete podium, will be completed in the Fall of 2016.
Sun Country is very pleased to have an opportunity to contribute to the next generation of builders.
Los Angeles ABC 7 news covers Wakeland Housing’s Camp Anza Veterans Housing Project
A Historic Past
Camp Anza was a military camp during World War II and a staging area for the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation. When the United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, over 600,000 military personnel passed through the Camp over the course of three years. Numerous buildings were constructed, primarily wood army barracks. Other buildings, including a headquarters, an Officers’ Club, a chapel and a laundry facility, were added over time. The Camp was decommissioned in 1946, and was subsequently subdivided for housing developments. Many of the buildings were demolished. Some of the barracks were converted into single-family homes on-site, and some were moved, and the buildings that were retained, including the Officers’ Club, were significantly modified. The use and look of Arlanza, as the Camp Anza area came to be known, changed greatly.
Growing up in the 1960s in the Arlanza neighborhood of Riverside, a boy named Frank Teurlay played in and around the remnants of Camp Anza, and in adulthood, although he had moved away from Riverside, he began to find out all he could about the history of Camp Anza. In particular, he became driven by the idea of preserving the Officers’ Club, and he approached city representatives, who were persuaded by his vision. In 2012, the City of Riverside issued an RFP for a project which would include the preservation of the Officers’ Club, and the construction of new housing for disabled veterans and their families. What could be more appropriate?
Frank Teurlay recently said, “Great movies often have a moment of real darkness, of hopelessness, which gives meaning to the ultimate resolution. That’s what has happened at Camp Anza. Helping to bring the Officers’ Club from the brink of demolition to preservation has been a journey of enormous satisfaction.” It’s also resulted in enormous satisfaction for Sun Country Builders, as we are given the opportunity to contribute to the preservation and to the development of the community.
North Santa Fe will bring Sun Country close to seventy multi-family housing projects completed since its founding, in Vista, in 1979.
Consisting of 96 units over three stories, this affordable housing complex specifically for seniors resides over a level of retail space and a common area at street level. Beneath it all sits almost a full one acre of underground parking.
We’re particularly proud of our work at Renaissance, providing a community center, lots of easily accessible business locations both for neighbors and as shopping destinations, and solid, quality housing in an historic neighborhood with a solid ethnic mix that doesn’t often see these kinds of results.