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Long Beach Update

Photos Taken 12/23/09

Veiw Down Long Beach From 2nd Story Balcony

Veiw Down Long Beach From 2nd Story Balcony

Townhouse Front Stoops

Community Room

Main Building Entry

SOMETHING NEW

Here is a seven unit townhouse project we are working on in West Hollywood. It is currently with the planning department and we hope to get approval early next year.

RAIN DELAY

Looks like we are in for some rain this week in Southern California which will slow the progress on Long Beach, but when it clears we will get update images hopefully with more walls standing.

second floor concrete deck poured

steel for community room

second floor concrete deck poured

first wallls up on the ground floor

Arbor Lofts Gallery Opening 11.06.09

check out these crazy photos from the event:

http://tomvarden.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/expansion-at-arbor-lofts-gallery/

Long Beach Construction

Ground floor concrete deck is almost ready to get poured

All the steel needed for the concrete deck is almost all in

Notice the formwork for the stepped slab.
You can see the rough layout for the bottom floor of a townhome unit
Even more rebar

Standing in the Hallway

Arbor Lofts Impressions

Check out what artist Tom Varden thinks about Arbor Lofts...

http://tomvarden.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/arbor-lofts/

This photo taken by Mark 2 weeks ago, notice the smoky sky because of the fires.

Website Updated

We finished updated our Website, more pictures and images.

Follow the Link!

http://www.pslarchitects.com/

Party in Lancaster!

Almost done Arbor Lofts Fire Dancers

Gallery Storefront PS with the Insite Development TeamThe next step

Long Beach Ground Breaking

Some Pictures from Yesterdays Groundbreaking.

From left to Right: Richard Prantis, Tania Boysen, Larry Persons,

Pat O'Connell, Richard Solares, Aaron Mandel and Tim Soule

The MC, Chris Maffris from Meta Housing

Long Beach City Council Member Dee Andrews

The Ceremonial Photo OP

The Lates Construction Shot

New Stuff

There are a few designs for prospective projects in the office right now. We will try and share them with you this month. First up is an 81 unit affordable project in Los Angeles. The site and program have dictated a long Southern façade on this project. The intent is to activate the southern façade by highlighting these passive systems. By attaching colored panels to the vertical shading structures on the South facade the movement of the sun will continually alter the elevation throughout the day. We will share more of this design as the project progresses.

Arbor Lofts Opening Party

Long Beach Construction Photos

Four weeks into construction and already three weeks ahead of schedule! Now that's a great set of drawings. WAY TO GO PSL!

Arbor Lofts Nearing Completion

Arbor Lofts is less than a month away from holding its Grand Opening. It is coming together nicely, and will be a nice addition to the dowtown Lancaster renewal.

Sichel Photo Shoot

As promised, here are the pictures from the Sichel photo shoot. In the first image, if you look very closely you might make out 2 members of the PSL team, doing there best impersonations of male models. Thanks again to Kelly for taking the photos for us.

Exporting Dirt

Long Beach is starting construction! The crew is digging the hole for the basement parking level. Here is an image sent over by the General Contractor, Cobalt.

Downtown lancaster

Today we are live from downtown Lancaster. When we get back into the office we will update some project photos. The restaurant space is really something now that demo has started.

Clinton Photo Shoot Take II

We are live from Clinton tonight with round two of the photo shoot. Look for your favorite PSL staffer modeling in the next round of photos. Hopefully, we will post the photos early next week.

CJ's Cafe

CJ's Cafe is the local diner in our area, good food and great prices. It has a good combo of Mexican and Soul food inspired dishes. Whatever you have you will leave here satisfied.

Clinton Photo Shoot

Richard P took photographer Kelly Barrie out to Clinton to get some final photos. They where able to get two shots at dusk, so it might take some time to get a full show. But, here is a sneak peak. Once they finish we hope to updated our website. We'll keep you posted until then.

Umami Burger

We tried Umami Burger @ La Brea and 8th today. All the meat eaters seemed to agree that the burgers were delicious. Only afterwards did I find out that they serve an off the menu mushroom burger. We all thought the malt liquor onion rings were great. It only took Alfredo
one bite of the burger to give it the Alfredo rating. Go with time on your hands, since it was slow for a burger joint.

Clinton Grand Opening

April 23, 2009 was the grand opening for the Clinton Family Apartments. Since the project is in District 13 Eric Garcetti's office helped in making the effort a reality. He attended the opening and expressed his appreciation for the entire project team.

Arbor Lofts Flyer

This is the official Flyer for Arbor Lofts. Not sure if Autumn comes with the Building, but call for more info.