"We like projects with a strong public-private interface. We enjoy working with communities. We also seem to enjoy working with trains. Transit-served properties will have unique and significant long-term value. And, we enjoy working with high quality architects like Stefanos Polyzoides, all of which we’ve done at Del Mar Station in Pasadena. Del Mar Station is a poster child for complicated modern urbanism. It has a bit of everything: housing, including affordable housing, retail, transit access, adaptive reuse of an historic train depot from the 1920s, and a city park that’s being improved across the street. And it’s two blocks from Colorado Boulevard, one of the coolest retail streets in Southern California. The fact that we have been able to address each of these agendas and to pursue the project profitably shows that it can be done. The city of Pasadena has been very supportive of this project, as have the Gold Line Authority and the MTA. When completed, Del Mar Station will provide a model for transit-oriented development in Southern California. The train literally goes through the buildings and stops in the middle of the project." | Dan Rosenfeld of Urban Partners LLC
