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02-19-2009, 08:40 PM
SAN DIEGO — Storekeeper 3rd Class (SW) Daniel Martinez led a few visitors into his home, high up in the Navy’s newest high-rise barracks, and stepped into the kitchen marked by modern maple cabinets and expansive stone countertops.
“It’s real nice,” Martinez, 23, said. “He likes to cook, and I like to cook, too.”
He shares the 17th floor, dual-master suite apartment with another sailor and friend who were among the first 200 sailors to move into Pacific Beacon, the military’s first bachelor housing built as a public-private venture. “It’s starting to feel more homey,” he added.
The modern, four-tower complex will house 1,882 sailors (E-4 and above) in apartments averaging 960 square feet, each with two master bedrooms with bath and walk-in closet, balcony, in-unit washer and dryer and energy-efficient appliances and most fully furnished. Residents can enjoy a rooftop pool, furnished rooftop lounges and patios, fitness center, game and TV rooms, lobby café, free Wi-Fi, concierge and parking garage.
From his balcony, Martinez can watch sunsets, evaluate rush-hour traffic on nearby Highway 15 and glance at the gray hulls at the 32nd Street naval station waterfront. One of those ships, the destroyer Halsey, was his home before he recently transferred to shore duty.
“Anything’s better than living on the ship,” he said.
That sentiment is the draw the Navy and its partner Clark Realty Capital is counting on to fill every unit this year. After its first towers opened in December, Clark and its property management arm, Pinnacle, continue to hold open houses, host commands and take enlisted leaders on tours in a serious campaign to get single sailors to sign six-month rental leases with individual rents costing up to $1,374 a month, or the 2008 E-4 allowance rate.
“I’d live here,” Capt. Rick Williamson, the San Diego base commander, said on a recent tour. “We’ve talked long about quality of life. What we’re seeing here is seeing it lived out.”
Yeoman 3rd Class (AW) Trumaine Shermon’s new home is a seventh-floor apartment with corner balcony that’s just the right height for pleasant views of the ocean, mountains and sunsets and close to work at the base commander’s office.
Shermon, 23, moved in after living at his parents’ nearby home in San Diego. “I actually now have my own place to go home to,” he said, noting he likes to spend time in his large bedroom playing video games. “I have privacy.”
Article: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/02/navy_beq_021809/
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Gidget Fuentes / Staff
San Diego sailors living in Pacific Beacon, the military's first
high-rise public-private venture bachelor housing, can enjoy
sunsets or a dip in a rooftop pool or sip a latte at a lobby
Internet cafe.
“It’s real nice,” Martinez, 23, said. “He likes to cook, and I like to cook, too.”
He shares the 17th floor, dual-master suite apartment with another sailor and friend who were among the first 200 sailors to move into Pacific Beacon, the military’s first bachelor housing built as a public-private venture. “It’s starting to feel more homey,” he added.
The modern, four-tower complex will house 1,882 sailors (E-4 and above) in apartments averaging 960 square feet, each with two master bedrooms with bath and walk-in closet, balcony, in-unit washer and dryer and energy-efficient appliances and most fully furnished. Residents can enjoy a rooftop pool, furnished rooftop lounges and patios, fitness center, game and TV rooms, lobby café, free Wi-Fi, concierge and parking garage.
From his balcony, Martinez can watch sunsets, evaluate rush-hour traffic on nearby Highway 15 and glance at the gray hulls at the 32nd Street naval station waterfront. One of those ships, the destroyer Halsey, was his home before he recently transferred to shore duty.
“Anything’s better than living on the ship,” he said.
That sentiment is the draw the Navy and its partner Clark Realty Capital is counting on to fill every unit this year. After its first towers opened in December, Clark and its property management arm, Pinnacle, continue to hold open houses, host commands and take enlisted leaders on tours in a serious campaign to get single sailors to sign six-month rental leases with individual rents costing up to $1,374 a month, or the 2008 E-4 allowance rate.
“I’d live here,” Capt. Rick Williamson, the San Diego base commander, said on a recent tour. “We’ve talked long about quality of life. What we’re seeing here is seeing it lived out.”
Yeoman 3rd Class (AW) Trumaine Shermon’s new home is a seventh-floor apartment with corner balcony that’s just the right height for pleasant views of the ocean, mountains and sunsets and close to work at the base commander’s office.
Shermon, 23, moved in after living at his parents’ nearby home in San Diego. “I actually now have my own place to go home to,” he said, noting he likes to spend time in his large bedroom playing video games. “I have privacy.”
Article: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/02/navy_beq_021809/
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh23/aliceamm/Military%20Times/021809nt_beq1.jpg
Gidget Fuentes / Staff
San Diego sailors living in Pacific Beacon, the military's first
high-rise public-private venture bachelor housing, can enjoy
sunsets or a dip in a rooftop pool or sip a latte at a lobby
Internet cafe.