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Design Principles for a Neighborhood-Serving, Shopping Village

  • Domestic-scale buildings and low-density organization focus on a pedestrian core and are subordinate to California’s rolling hill landscape.

  • Village architecture creates a variety of public spaces of appropriate scale.

  • Building types, materials and colors respect the rural and local, historical context.

  • Tenant mix upscale tied to market demographics.

  • Trail and bike path system links project to the community.

Break Down - Village Components

  • 10 retail buildings on seven lots.

  • One upscale, gourmet grocery store as anchor tenant.

  • Total of 114,185 square feet of retail.

  • 12,388 square feet of non-retail office space.

  • 508 parking spaces.

  • Five (5) driveways into and exiting neighborhood village.

  • Water supplied by California American Water Company from nearby Ambler Park water supply wells.

  • Cut-off fixture lighting to eliminate sky glow.


Rendering of view of neighborhood-serving shopping village from
 Highway 68 traveling north towards Salinas.


Rendering of retail buildings 1, 2 and 3 looking eastward.