New Apartment Complex Nearing Reality

This artist’s rendering shows what could soon be seen at 5th and Huntington in the not-too-distant future. – Courtesy Drawing

By Susan Motander

According to City Manager Oliver Chi, the development company planning the project at the corner of Huntington Drive and Fifth Avenue pulled their final building permits for the complex. The firm plans a four-story 154 unit apartment building with a small (1,340 square foot) commercial space at the north corner of the complex.

There was a large self-storage facility at this location until just a year ago. According to Craig Jimenez, Monrovia’s Community Development Director, companies do not usually pay their fees for final permits until they are ready to begin construction. Jimenez also said that pre-construction conferences were planned in six weeks and he anticipated that construction would begin shortly thereafter.

“I assume that it will be an eighteen to twenty month building process,” Jimenez said. That would put completion of the project sometime in early 2018.

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