The Marina Shores shopping center at 6500 Pacific Coast Highway is officially on the way out. Demolition crews are tearing into the roughly six-acre site at the southeastern gateway to Long Beach, clearing room for Onni Group’s five-story housing complex with about 600 apartments and a thin slice of ground-floor retail.
Plans have moved off the drafting table and into the dust and rubble. Heavy equipment is on site, and the developer has started demolition and site clearing. As reported by Urbanize LA, crews are dismantling the former shopping center as part of the Onni Marina Shores project.
What Onni Plans
Onni’s entitlement drawings call for two five-story buildings holding roughly 600 apartments in a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Those homes would sit above about 4,000 square feet of commercial space, stacked on podium parking with room for more than 1,100 vehicles.
Coverage from Longbeachize notes that the project would cut a new central driveway between Marina Drive and Pacific Coast Highway and identifies Onni Marina Shores as the largest of three major developments planned along this stretch of PCH. Longbeachize has also tracked the project’s entitlement path and unit counts as it moved through city review.
Design and Landscape
Solomon Cordwell Buenz is listed as the project’s architect, with Salt Landscape Architects handling the landscape design. The look leans heavily into the marina and wetlands setting around Alamitos Bay…