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Robbins
Jorgensen Christopher
Selected
to Design Coronado's New $30 Million Community
Center and City Hall
Newport Beach, CA - The City of Coronado
has selected Newport Beach-based Robbins
Jorgensen Christopher to provide planning
and architectural design services for its
new $30 million community center and city
hall complex. The 16-acre complex will boast
two new buildings in a park-like setting
and include a waterfront promenade from
the Coronado Yacht Club on the north to
the Glorietta Bay Park on the south.
According to Roberta
Jorgensen, FAIA, president of Robbins Jorgensen
Christopher, her firm is providing planning,
programming, architectural design, interior
design and landscape architecture for the
shoreline project, which will begin construction
this summer with targeted completion set
for fall 2004.
"This is the culmination
of many years of planning and deliberation
with significant public input," said
Jorgensen. "The goals of the project
are to enhance this critical shoreline property
for the benefit of the Coronado community,
increase public access and recreational
opportunities along the bay front and provide
a new Community Center and City Hall."
The 40,000-square-foot
Community Center will include art and activity
rooms, meeting rooms and multipurpose facilities,
a kitchen, locker rooms/showers, gymnasium,
fitness center, dance studio and swimming
pool.
The new City Hall will house council chambers,
city manager's office and administrative
services as well as other vital departments
including engineering and community development
The park surrounding
and encompassing the new buildings will
be a passive area allowing for more coastal
access and informal enjoyment of the views
of Glorietta Bay, said Jorgensen.
"The existing
seawall will be redesigned to improve views
of the water and to provide an inviting
strolling link between the residential neighborhoods
and the downtown village of Coronado,"
she said.
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