It’s been almost two years since buildings were demolished on the northwest corner of California/Graham (map), at the time slated for a townhouses-plus-live-work-units development that had been proposed a year earlier. Since the demolition, though, the 15,000-square-foot site has remained empty, and weedy, but apparently not much longer. We’d been checking on its status since its fencing came down a few weeks back. Now, half the lot is fenced again, and a real-estate shingle is up at the corner, in front of the unfenced half, pointing to this listing. A conversation with one of the agents, Bryan Loe, reveals what’s ahead: The entire site was purchased less than a month ago by what he says is a local developer partnership, Morgan Junction, LLC. But the previously proposed project, which had even gone through Design Review, is completely dead, he says. The new ownership is keeping the fenced-in north half and plans to build on it soon, according to Loe (the city’s page for the project describes it as “4 attached townhomes and 3 live-work units”), and selling the now-unfenced south half (with a possible buyer already lined up). He says it’s something like what’s happening on a similarly long-empty lot a few parcels north on California:
That’s a new Knoll Development building on the south half of that lot, with the north half fenced off. The developer for the California/Graham north lot is listed as Soleil. Meantime, the California/Graham site is one of the topics on the agenda for tomorrow night’s Morgan Community Association quarterly meeting (7 pm Wednesday, lower-level meeting room @ The Kenney).
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