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8/12/16
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The new, $35 mil SmartStop headquarters facility in Ladera Ranch has been completed. The state-of-the-art, mixed-use complex is 120k sf in size. It contains the Ladera Sports Center, a 63k sf gymnasium, a 42k sf self-storage facility; and more than 15k sf of office space.
The facility, situated on approximately four acres on Terrace Rd near the intersection of Crown Valley Pkwy and Antonio Pkwy, is powered by 1,100 solar panels and is built to pursue the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. The projectd came in on time and under budget.
The Ladera Sports Center, an elite air-conditioned training facility, features eight basketball and volleyball courts, video cameras to record all games and practices, noise reduction systems, superior wood flooring, ample spectator seats per court, 300 parking spaces (half of them covered), a student study room, free Wi-Fi and a café serving healthy snacks and drinks. Located at 2 Terrace Road, this new gymnasium offers live webcast-enabled cameras on each court, which will allow parents and sports team scouts to watch games or practices remotely or buy recorded DVDs. The steel-frame building is constructed podium-style, with the sports complex on the second floor and parking beneath. Ample use of glass and skylights allow for extensive natural light.
The fourth-floor office space, which will be home to Smartstop Asset Management, offers amazing views, including ocean vistas. Accessed by two dedicated secure elevators, the loft-style space, located at 10 Terrace Road, has open ceilings, huge windows and glass walls that allow natural light into the majority of the space. Automatic blinds attached to solar sensors on the roof control the incoming light. Four high-tech conference rooms, a large break room, a 26-station call center and a server room with hot and cold aisle systems for maximum efficiency are also on the fourth floor.
The storage facility is built adjacent to an existing storage facility and linked with a road so storage customers have a separate entrance.
“Concept-wise, a private sports center like this has not been built anywhere that I’m aware of, at least not in California,” said Richard Lutzky of Lutzky Associates Development, who oversaw the entire project. “By making it a mixed-use project, we were able to underwrite the cost to use revenue from the storage and office to offset a large portion of the construction costs. That’s the secret sauce. Without the office and storage, the sports center wouldn’t have been able to stand by itself economically.”
R.D. Olson Construction was the general contractor for the project, which was designed by Robert R. Coffee Architect + Associates. According to architect Robert R. Coffee, principal of Robert R. Coffee Architect + Associates, the building integrates three disparate uses and is designed to communicate the energy associated with a sports center and to unify the three disparate uses into one dynamic, memorable image by using a combination of brightly colored smooth-faced and corrugated metal panels, colored porcelain tiles and clear, translucent glass.
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