Demolition has started for a new affordable housing complex at 665 and 883 Sebastopol Road in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. The development, named Casa Roseland, will bring 75 new units along a retail thoroughfare as part of a seven-acre redevelopment plan. MidPen Housing is responsible for the application.
The four-story building will contain 75 apartments. Unit sizes will vary with 24 one-bedrooms, 30 two-bedrooms, and 20 three-bedrooms. Units will be designated as affordable to households earning between 30-60% of the area’s median income.
Casa Roseland Family Apartments pedestrian view, rendering by VMWP Architects
Casa Roseland Family Apartments streetscape, rendering by VMWP Architects
On-site services will include homework help, literacy development, academic enrichment, computer training, and vocational development help. A fitness center will be included on-site. Parking will be included for 108 cars, including 33 in the podium parking garage. Additional space will be included for 68 bicycles.
Van Meter Williams Pollack is the project architect. Illustrations show a short red-and-white podium-style complex with facade articulation and balconies.
Tierra de Rosas master plan aerial view, rendering by VMWP Architects
Casa Roseland Family Apartments, rendering by VMWP Architects
The residential project, named Casa Roseland, will be part of the seven-acre Tierra de Rosa master plan. The three-phase plan includes a new one-acre public plaza, a Mercado Food hall, a civic-use building, and a hundred homes of market-rate housing. A popular existing community hub, Mitote Food Park, will remain through the first two construction phases.
The property is along Sebastopol Road at the intersection of West Avenue, north of Dutton Avenue. The city center is just under half an hour away on foot or ten minutes by bicycle.
Tierra de Rosa site, image by Google Satellite
Tierra de Rosa site map, illustration by VMWP
With demolition underway, vertical construction is expected to start next year.
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Hello,
Would like information about the Santa Rosa location. If applications are or will be available in the near future.
How imagines that their next home is going to look like that?
How exciting!
The time has come to upgrade the area and utilize the space into a more productive and esthetically developed area. I feel that what crime rate we have in this area will subside and become a safe living area with more job opportunities as well . I can hardly wait to see it get underway !
How do we apply to get an apartment there when it finishes ??