Arya Apartments
Bruce Damonte

Arya Apartments

Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects as Architects

Arya Apartments provides 87 affordable apartments in a gateway building to downtown San Jose’s SoFA (South of First Area) Arts and Entertainment District. The 95,000-square-foot project’s design, amenities, and outreach strategies were developed to serve San Jose’s working artist community.

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Bruce Damonte
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Bruce Damonte
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Bruce Damonte

The building’s amenities include a variety of common areas, workspaces, multipurpose rooms, and a landscaped courtyard. Working with Local Color, a San Jose arts organization, the project will also include a community flex space located at street level that can serve as a classroom, a gallery, and/or performance space for local artists and nonprofits and be accessible to residents and neighbors.

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Bruce Damonte
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Bruce Damonte

The colorful exterior design expresses the project’s location as a transition point between downtown high-rises and an adjacent historic single-family neighborhood. A robust community engagement process resulted in unanimous Planning Commission approval without opposition. 

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Bruce Damonte
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Bruce Damonte

This project used the State Density Bonus Program to increase the number of apartments, and used the State affordable housing streamlined approval process to fast-track entitlements. 

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Bruce Damonte
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Bruce Damonte

Project Team

Architecture and Interiors: LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects
Owner: Satellite Affordable Housing Associates (SAHA)
GC: Branagh Construction
Landscape: Creo
Civil: Luk and Associates
MEP: Emerald City Engineers
Low Voltage: E Design C
Waterproofing: Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
Acoustical: Salter
Lighting: Tucci Lighting

LMSA design team: Richard Stacy, Vanna Whitney, Sara Sepandar, Yung Chang, Enrique Sanchez, Eddie Kopleson, Kirk Nelson, Howie Russel, and LJ Bryant

Photography

Bruce Damonte 

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