The Orchard

Santa Barbara, CA
The Orchard engages Santa Barbara’s busy Hollister Avenue corridor with an array of different housing types alongside neighborhood-serving retail, all in service of a more productive use of former agricultural land. Notable for integrating three of our disciplines: architecture, planning and retail design, the development expresses a broad agricultural theme in respect to its context and includes senior housing, affordable multifamily, and for sale townhomes, among other typologies.
Expertise
Architecture, Urban Design
Sector
Affordable, Mixed Use, Multifamily Residential, Planning, Retail
Typology
Master Planning, Site Planning, Townhomes, Walk Up, Wrap, Retail
Status
On the Boards

The retail plaza occupies a space at the entrance to the site, taking advantage of busy frontage. The retail buildings each employ different forms to create depth and increase visual interest on a small site. The two-story restaurant gives a view of the surroundings and offers tenants visibility for branding. There is a shorter, stone- and glass-clad cafe for a quick serve restaurant or coffee shop, and the retail anchor is a broadly sloped glass enclosed market hall intended for a small grocer.

Courtyard style market rate multifamily apartments and senior affordable housing along with for sale townhomes create a robust offering of residences that will help establish this new development as a thriving community. The site intersects with a flight path, so the designers worked with FAA regulations and strategically placed parking structures, streets and resident amenities under the path to minimize its impact. The residences are woven into a site containing a large public park and a tech campus. These more intensive uses sit opposite the flight path from the residential and retail sites, creating a seamless barrier.

 

Project Details

Facts

Density: 17 du/ac
Unit Plan Sizes: 445-2,345 sq. ft.
Number of Units: 1,096 du
Site Area: 64.7 ac
Number of Stories: 2-4
Retail: 10,800 sq. ft.
Parking: 2,036 spaces (1.85 sp/du)
Construction Type: VA, VB
Certification: Designed to Green Point Rated

Project Team

Developer
  • The Oak Creek Company
Architect
  • KTGY
Landscape Architect
  • CJM-LA
Civil Engineer
  • Stantec

Awards

2026 Gold Nugget Awards
  • Grand Award | Best On-the-Boards Mixed Use Project
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