PROJECTS

phoenixRISING was founded, in part, by veterans initially focused on housing, care and job training for homeless veterans. We have recognized that the resources, skills and container technologies we bring to bear on this issue allows us to also address the additional markets of Workforce Housing and Small Homes. Cities and communities have begun to appreciate the absolute imperative of having a sustainable model for the attraction and retention of a diverse resident population. The expansion of the mission from homeless to affordable housing and small homes gives phoenixRISING the financial resources to continue its core mission and create a sustainable business model. phoenixRISING organizes the social and government partnerships necessary for success… finds appropriate land… and facilitates the building and installation of a range of housing communities. The two principals have a combined experience base of over 80 years in real estate financing, development, planning and design. They bring to each phoenixRISING community the combined expertise of MINDLINconsulting, Pacific Heights Holdings, The BROADBANDcollaborative and, of course, phoenixRISING.

Renaissance Place

Renaissance Place is a city block, mixed use development including five separate buildings whose uses include stand-alone retail, office space and market-rate apartments over street-front retail; all over a below grade parking garage owned by the city. It was an early P3 and a great exercise in giving a city the substantial benefits of comprehensive development. We were successful in establishing the urban “patterns” and standards that informed and guided future development… including an important mid-block promenade with “addresses” for the apartments and offices complete with terrace and balcony overlooks and on-grade restaurants. The project does not take on the look of a “big development”... but rather maintains the scale and character of the existing urban fabric complete with local vernacular architecture (as required by local codes) for each of the five buildings that comprise the development. One of the first “new urbanists” projects in the Midwest, Renaissance Place led to the revitalization of downtown Highland Park, Illinois and became the “life of the city” where everyone came together as a “community”.

Client: David Street Land

Design: MINDLINconsulting

Recognition:

Pre-leased before ground-breaking.

ULI Handbook on Place Making

ULI Handbook on Town Center Development

ULI Handbook on Mixed Use Development

ULI Handbook on Retail Development

Santa Ana

The project is two residential buildings organized around a shared green space amenity.  Each building is a podium… one on grade and the other two levels above grade creating a variety to building heights and scale.  Each podium has a rich variety of private and public spaces that are heavily landscaped with grade level units pushing out into the green belt to give a sense of lush privacy. The larger building has a full height “lantern” that addresses arrival into the City from the adjacent freeway. Elan is the anchor development to a district wide revitalization strategy that creates a more intimate apartment typology and a design that embraces the unique fauna and floral of the adjacent park to create an important new amenity at the entrance to the city.

Client: Wermers

Design: Michael Mindlin for TCA

Renovation of the Beacon Hotel

Icon property on the South Beach of Miami underwent a complete renovation to help bring life back to South Beach when it was struggling to become relevant. Chapin Hunt provide the financing for this project.

FINANCING: Chapin Hunt, CEO at Pacific Heights Holdings

Dolce Vita Porto

Unlike corporate and institutional buildings, commercial architecture operates in an environment that must respond to all the normal constraints and exceedingly tight budgets… but also must achieve a successful selling environment by making a profound emotional connection with the public and customers. Unusual for any commercial building is the integration of large scaled sculptural glass elements into the form giving architectonics.  These sculptural architectonics are not arbitrary design elements, but rather the physical manifestation of very clear strategic imperatives.  The project contains 1.8M square feet including a residential and hotel towers on a podium of retail, entertainment, and exhibition space. Dolce Vita Porto is truly is a breakthrough design for a commercial development… an avant-garde design that rises above commercial mediocrity and achieves a much wider definition of success.  It is the anchor development in the revitalization of historic Antas that includes an international stadium, residential and commercial uses.

Client: Nelson Almeida for Amorim

Design: MINDLINconsulting

Recognition:

2018 APR International Urban Design Award

2009 ULI Top Ten Entertainment & Retail Projects

2008 AIA Distinguished Award

2007 ICSC International Innovative Design Award

2007 ICSC European Design Award

One Rincon Hill

An upscale residential complex on the apex of Ricon Hill in San Francisco, California. The complex, designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz and Associates and developed by Urban West Associates, consists of two skyscrapers that share a common townhouse podium. It is part of the San Francisco Skyline and is visible from Mount Diablo, Port of Oakland, and San Francisco. The taller tower, One Rincon Hill South Tower, was completed in 2008 and stands 60 stories and 641 feet (195 m) tall. The shorter tower, marketed as Tower Two at One Rincon Hill, was completed in 2014 and reaches a height of 541 feet (165 m) with 50 stories. The South Tower contains high-speed elevators with special features for moving residents effectively, and a large water tank designed to help the skyscraper withstand strong winds and earthquakes.  Both skyscrapers and the townhomes contain a total of 709 residential units..

Financing: Chapin Hunt, CEO at Pacific Heights Holdings

Summerset Village

Veteran housing serves a community with special challenges and needs someplace that seems safe, familiar, and calming. Container construction speaks to the need for dramatic speed of development and significantly lower costs. However, it has its own challenges to create something that isn’t a dystopian image. While containers can be “cool” and we embrace that aesthetic… for some communities they must be background buildings that do their best to be respectful and appropriate.

Client: Pacific Height Holdings

Design: MINDLINconsulting

690 Market Street

In the heart of downtown San Francisco on the corner of Market and Kearny Streets, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, San Francisco occupy the West Coast's first skyscraper. Erected in 1890, the building served as the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle and now includes 52 whole-ownership Residences. 

Services: Development, financing, and ownership by Chapin Hunt Jr.

2700

A 12 -story office building with a bit over 2 acres of asphalt parking that sat vacant evenings and weekends is being converted to 312 podium apartments with substantial benefits to ownership. This complimentary uses of residential and office created a 24% reduction in parking … a significant savings in expensive structured parking. Moreover, the complex was designed as two different offerings: one building for families and one building for millennials, which reduced risk for the developer in this emerging market. Asphalt parking lots are a luxury we can no longer afford in prime markets. 27 Hundred shows the benefits of intensifying land uses to create more sustainable development and significantly reduced parking requirements.

Client: Confidential

Design:

MINDLINconsulting with WHA Architects.

Original design by Michael Mindlin with TCA

Next Generation of the Modern Mountain Village

MINDLINconsulting was retained to help create the strategies for branding , development, planning and design on this USD1B mixed use development in a resort setting. With consensus on this clear strategy, we then recommended the planning & design team tailored to this specific opportunity. Our client retained the recommended planning lead, Werner Maassen at the SmithGroup, who could produce an “iconic” master plan that would differentiate this experience while working with a difficult site. The recommended architectural firm, LakeFlato, was retained because of their unique and proven ability to produce a vernacular design that was defined, in advance by our firm, to be a more casually elegant and sophisticated expression of a well established, but tired local design language. Together, this team produced a unique and tailored vision for this property and its projected international customer base. Our management of the design process resulted in a savings of USD340K in conceptual branding, leasing, engineering, planning, and design fees… and a work product that is aligned with, and enhances, the client’s development strategy.

Client: Confidential

Design:

Strategy, visioning, and project management by MINDLINconsulting

Master planning by SmithGroup

Architectural Design by LakeFlato