Saturday, February 8, 2025

Santa Cruz Changes 119: On Ingalls Alley


Here's a big one I missed in 2024. A multi-building 161-unit housing project is now under construction to the west of Swift Street, to the rear of the Delaware Avenue development described in Changes 7, and next to the Rail Trail.


* Three four-story residential buildings 
* One two-story building with a leasing office and a fitness center 
* One single-story building with shops.
* 161 units, including 80 one-bedroom and 81 two-bedroom homes
* Seven low-income and 12 moderate-income units.

The biggest difference from other recent local multi-family projects is that these units are already entirely leased to UCSC, for use as off-campus university student/faculty/stall housing. The project will be much larger than UCSC's other off-campus housing location, the 52-unit University Town Center on Pacific Avenue.