Projects

Mission Beach Residences & Santa Barbara Place

McKellar-McGowan retained Atlantis Group to lead the development team for a proposed 63-unit luxury townhome project on the site of the long-closed Mission Beach Elementary School, in a densely populated beach community. The team prepared and processed a General Plan Amendment, Mission Beach Community Plan/LCP Amendment, a Tentative Map, a Coastal Development Permit and an EIR with the City of San Diego.

Atlantis Group led the City Council lobbying effort, resulting in a 6-2 bipartisan vote to approve the project. The project was approved by the California Coastal Commission

Otay Ranch Portion of Village 4 SPA

Dansk Investments retained Atlantis Group to lead a development team for a 350-unit residential project in the city of Chula Vista.  The team prepared and processed a Sectional Planning Area (SPA) Plan, a Tentative Map, Design Guidelines, a Public Facilities Finance Plan, an EIR, and annexation into an Otay Water District Improvement Area.  Atlantis negotiated an MSCP Boundary Line Adjustment with the City and the resource agencies. The project was approved in June 2018.

Liberty Station (Later Projects)

Client: The Corky McMillin Companies

The Corky McMillin Cos. retained Atlantis Group to process entitlement for the Liberty Station East Hotel, consisting of 650 rooms in three hotels. The project was approved by the city’s Planning Commission without opposition, and later gained approval by the California Coastal Commission.

McMillin has also retained Atlantis Group for as-needed consulting services associated with securing tenants, lease terms, a master sign program and building permits. Atlantis also has assisted the NTC Foundation, Stone Brewing, The Lot cinema and other tenants with their entitlement issues.

Clairemont Drive – Warmington

In 2002, Atlantis Group completed the processing of Clairemont Drive project in the Clairemont Mesa Community Plan area of the City of San Diego. The project included the demolition of two existing buildings and the construction of a seven 3-story residential buildings and preservation of open space. The residentially zoned parcel included a Site Development Permit (SDP) based on minor impacts to disturbed grasslands and the presence of a disturbed wetland, as well as a Map Waiver to create condominiums through a Process 4 action by the City’s Planning Commission.  The project design was compliant with the Clairemont Mesa Community 30-foot Height limit and the Community Plan land use designation and underlying zoning.

The Atlantis Group team worked closely with the client and the consultant team throughout the process to effectively and efficiently ensure plans and documents were updated to address all issues. Additionally, the Atlantis group managed the team and provided critical problem-solving to maintain the client’s schedule and ensure timely processing by and through City reviewers and management. The project received unanimous approval by the City’s Planning Commission without dissent.

Preface-Lake Atlin

Atlanis Group managed the discretionary permit process to obtain approval for a Process Four Vesting Tentative Map (VTM) and Planned Development Permit (PDP). The VTM and PDP allow for the development of a 10-acre infill surplus San Diego School District school site with 50 single-family dwelling units.

Pardee-Castlerock

Atlantis Group managed the discretionary permit process to obtain approval of a Process Five project that included a General Plan Amendment (GPA), Community Plan Amendment (CPA), Vesting Tentative Map (VTM), Planned Development Permit (PDP), Site Development Permit (SDP), a rezone, and a LAFCO Reorganization between the Cities of San Diego and Santee.  The approvals allowed the Client to construct up to 430 dwelling units adjacent to the CIty of Santee when complete will be annexed into the City of Santee and perseved more than 100-acres of natural open space for the Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP).

Riverwalk

Atlantis Group is managing the discretionary permit Process (Five) to obtain approval of a General Plan Amendment (GPA), Specific Plan Amendment (SPA), Vesting Tentative Map (VTM), a Site Development Permit (SDP), General Park Development Plan (GDP), a Rezone (RZ), and a Conditional Use Permit Amendment (CUP) for approximately 4,300 dwelling units, 1,000,000 square-feet of office space, 152,000 square-feet of community commercial, a trolley station, more than 100-acres of neighborhood and regional park space, restoration of approximately 1/2-mile of the San Diego River, and certain roadway improvements, including upgrading Fashion Valley Road.

Wakeland Housing & Development – Ivy Senior Apartments

Atlantis Group has performed due diligence on a proposed Permanent Supportive Housing project for Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation in the Clairemont Mesa Community Plan area. Atlantis worked extensively with City staff to determine aspects that needed discretionary review and identified upcoming and recently-signed legislation that resulted in the project being permitted by right, with no entitlement or CEQA review. Looking ahead and recognizing opportunities for the future has resulted in significant cost and time savings.

Next Space – 3903 Voltaire

Next Space retained Atlantis Group to manage compliance with discretionary permit conditions approved for the previous owner in 2009, including processing a minor engineering permit to utilize the permit, an Affordable Housing Agreement, and conditions relating to solar panels on a 2-story building in the 30′ height limit area of Point Loma.

Saturn Rezone and Tentative Map

Atlantis Group is managing the entitlement process of a Vesting Tentative Map, Planned Development Permit and Coastal Development Permit to demolish an existing residence with detached accessory structures for the development of a neighborhood of eighteen (18) single family residences in the Otay Mesa Nestor Planning Area. The project includes design guidelines and negotiated street improvements.

Urbana

Atlantis Group was retained by Urbana CV, LLC to provide entitlement services including approval from the Chula Vista Urban Core Design Review Board for a mixed-use live/work project with 257 apartments and 9 live/work units wrapped around an interior parking garage in the Urban Core Specific Plan area of western Chula Vista.

Life Time Fitness

Atlantis has performed numerous due diligence analyses for siting fitness center locations within the San Diego region. At the Wall Street location there are both City and State entitlements, which have been codified in the La Jolla Planned District Ordinance, and a land use consistency determination was sought and obtained that the change of use to a fitness center would not increase the required parking and therefore, no discretionary action was required. Atlantis further obtained written confirmation from the California Coastal Commission staff that the project would not require an amendment from the state.

Superior Ready Mix – Nancy Ridge Drive

Atlantis Group was engaged to perform due diligence on a site at Nancy Ridge Rd. for a Superior Ready-Mix concrete batch plant within the Mira Mesa Community Plan area. Atlantis identified a path to keep the project ministerial, thereby saving our client from the time and expense of a Conditional Use Permit and CEQA analysis. Initially City staff did not agree with our determination, however high-level conflict resolution meetings resulted in a written decision for our client, and a path identified for consistent determinations in the future.

Montezuma Hotel

Atlantis Group is managing the Community Plan Amendment, Rezone, and Neighborhood Development Permit to allow the construction of a 125-room hotel on Montezuma Road in the College Area Community Plan area. The project includes working with the Friends of the Rolando Branch Library and the City of San Diego to create and implement a shared access and parking agreement for the library.

Futbol Factory

Juan Carlos Paz & Puente envisioned an indoor futbol training facility in a 29,000 SF space in an existing industrial building in Chula Vista. Atlantis Group successfully processed a Conditional Use Permit as an “educational” facility that provides a unique educational opportunity for sports instruction for the children and adults of the City, and that would contribute to the general well being of the surrounding community.

Otay Valley Rock Quarry

Client: Moller Investments

Moller Investments acquired a 214 acre parcel in the City of Chula Vista that included an operating rock quarry and land designated for residential development and habitat preservation. Atlantis Group managed the Quarry project through the regulatory review processes with local, state and federal agencies, including a Reclamation Plan, EIR, Multiple Species Conservation Plan Boundary Adjustment, sensitive habitat preservation issues, and annexation into a CFD for ongoing maintenance.

Penske CUP – Father Joe’s Villages / Neil Good Day Center

Atlantis Group managed the discretionary permit process where Father Joe’s obtained approval of a Process Four Conditional Use Permit (CUP).  The CUP allows the Neil Good homeless day center at 1402 Commercial Street in the East Village neighborhood in Downtown San Diego.  The day center includes a 5,624 square-foot building and an outdoor patio area which allows for day time storage of belongings, a covered respite from the weather, employment information and referrals, income assistance to patrons, facilities for personal hygiene, and mail and telephone access for the homeless population.

La Jolla Music Society – The Conrad

The La Jolla Music Society retained Atlantis Group to process a Coastal Development Permit and Mitigated Negative Declaration for a 500-seat concern hall, a 150-seat cabaret space and offices in the village of La Jolla with no onsite parking, based on agreements with nearby offices to provide parking for evening and weekend performances.

St. John Garabed Armenian Church

Atlantis Group assisted in due diligence for the property acquisition for the Church’s present and future needs. The proposed project is a 4-building campus on a 13-acre property owned by the Church. The church is located in the jurisdiction of the California Coastal Commission in the Future Urbanizing Area of the City of San Diego. Atlantis Group is leading a team of design consultants in the preparation of a plan that meets the overlapping regulatory requirements. Extensive public outreach is being conducted with the Community Planning Groups, the surrounding neighbors and other stakeholders to secure the entitlements for the proposed project.

The Cambridge School

The Cambridge School opened under a lease from a church; however, the church’s Conditional Use Permit did not allow for a school. In addition, they wanted the right to construct additional classrooms. Atlantis Group worked with City staff, represented Cambridge at the Rancho Peñasquitos Planning Board, and was successful in processing a separate Conditional Use Permit for the school, and building permits for its new construction.

Subsequently, Cambridge School wished to add three additional modular classrooms. Atlantis Group processed a substantial conformance review to allow the addition of one classroom which will accommodate their 2012 enrollment.

City of Chula Vista

Atlantis Group was retained to develop and present a project management training series to staff of the City of Chula Vista Development Services Department. The training included surveys of senior City managers about project management, various leadership training modules and follow-up with department managers.

Intersection

In 2022, Atlantis Group completed the processing of Intersection project in the Mira Mesa Community Plan area of the City of San Diego.  The project included the demolition of two existing 2-story office building and construction of a 2-story Life Science building (approximately 36,800 square-feet) within the Marine Corp Air Station Miramar Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (MCAS Miramar ALUCP) area, Accident Potential Zone II (APZ II).  Atlantis worked with the client and the consultant team to prepare a process a Neighborhood Development Permit (NDP) to allow the development to exceed 300 square-feet per person as prescribed in the MCAS Miramar ALUCP.  The City’s Land Development Code allows projects to exceed the limit through demonstration, by the applicant, that other similar projects require larger floor area per person and that the maximum allowed people, per the MCAS Miramar ALUCP, for the property will be maintained.

The Atlantis Group team managed the project through the entitlement process effectively and efficiently to ensure the Client’s schedule was achieved successfully.  This required management of the consultant team and critical problem-solving with the City reviewer team and management as well as working with the Mira Mesa Community Group and the representative of MCAS Miramar. The project was approved without dissent.

Badiee Development

During 2021, 2022, and 2023, Atlantis Group team completed the processing of three Industrial projects in the Otay Mesa Community Planning area of the City of San Diego. These projects were ground-up developments that required Site Development Permits (SDP’s) per the Otay Mesa Community Plan. The warehouse buildings comprise more than half a million square-feet as well as critical fronting street improvements to serve the growing cross border activity at the Otay Mesa Border Crossing. These Process 3 approvals required analyzing the potential environmental impacts associated with developing the previously un-graded parcels. Additionally, the projects were required to comply with the Brown Field Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.

The Atlantis Group team managed the project through the entitlement process effectively and efficiently to ensure the Client’s schedule was achieved successfully. This required management of the consultant team and critical problem-solving with the City reviewer team and management as well as working with the Otay Mesa Community Group. The projects were unanimously approved by the Planning Commission.