The final $10 million to finish the $55 million project has been secured and allows for the first of eight units to open next month.
Soon to be open cottages at Crystal Cove in Laguna Beach, CA, on Monday, October 16, 2023. The boardwalk built on stilts in front of each completed cottage is open to the public. For five years, the quaint cottages at the north end of Crystal Cove have been a construction zone, tucked behind fencing as an elaborate effort to revitalize the historic structures has been underway.
“It’s remarkable how many people have been involved in making this happen and how long they’ve worked to make it happen,” said Kate Wheeler, president and CEO of the conservancy. The first batch of eight units expected to open next month are among 22 units set in 17 cottages expected to all be open by 2026. With each opening, construction and fencing will move northward up the beach – the wooden boardwalk in front of each completed cottage will also be opening to the public.when “coveites” enjoyed a laid-back lifestyle living in the cobbled together collection of homes, many built from wood that washed ashore.
Crystal Cove Conservancy founder Laura Davick, once a resident at the cottages who fought against a luxury hotel proposed in the late ’90s for the site before it became part of State Parks, led the funding efforts through the years as chair of the capital campaign. She enlisted the help of Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris to secure more than $30 million in state funding, as well as the Bank of America investment that got the project to the finish line.
Planning for the North Beach set of cottages spans a decade, with an extensive back-and-forth in the California Coastal Commission permitting phase that ended with the“It should have been hard, they did the right thing,” Wheeler said. “We have to protect the coast. We need to do it in a way that wasn’t detrimental to the coast, they put us through the paces and that was the right thing.
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