.Spanos Corporation is raising the bar for Manteca apartment complexes.
Plans for the Joshua Street Apartments that will be on the future northeast corner of Joshua Street — the western extension of Atherton Drive after it crosses McKinley Avenue — and West Woodward Avenue includes 245 units in five separate buildings.
The complex will include the following firsts for Manteca:
*The first four-story apartment buildings that will require elevators.
*The first complex to have air-conditioned interior corridors.
*The first for each building in the complex to have its own pet spa and bicycle café for storing bicycles.
*The first with a two-story clubhouse complete with a roof deck.
*The first with a pickleball court and a bocce court.
*The first to be on a corner of a roundabout (the four-lane Joshua Street and Woodward Avenue).
*The first to be built in southwest Manteca.
The 2-story, 9,000-square-foot clubhouse besides featuring a deck on the roof will also house the leasing center, a mail and parcel room, fitness center, and great room.
There will be a pool and spa with cabanas, a kitchen and dining area, a dog park, a tot lot with lawn area, and an area designated for yoga and other activities.
Apartments will range from 477 square-foot studios to 1,385-square-foot three-bedroom units.
Each unit will have a private balcony or patio of at least 40 square feet.
A future Manteca Unified School District elementary school site borders the 11.2-acre apartment complex site to the east.
The project is part of the approved Oakwood Landing project.
It consists of two subdivision maps for the Cerri and Denali subdivisions that include a combined 975 building lots for single family homes.
There is also 15 acres of park/basin areas, along with 13 acres of commercial development, and 6.7 acres of open space.
The apartment project is before the Manteca Planning Commission when they meet Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Civic Center, 10021 W. Center St.
2.815 apartment
units on the way
There are now 2,815 apartment units either in the process of being built, approved but yet to break ground, or in the approval process.
Besides the Spanos project, there are four applications to build 1,516 apartments in Manteca currently under review by the city.
*672 units on the southeast quadrant of the Main Street and 120 Bypass interchange.
*62 units in the Yosemite complex proposed to the east of Kaiser Hospital on West Yosemite Avenue.
*472 units in the Wawona complex proposed on the west side of Airport Way between Big League Dreams and Wawona Street.
*210 units in the Soma complex proposed on the southeast corner of Atherton Drive and South Main Steet.
*100 units behind the Moose Lodge at North Main Street and Lancaster Drive.
An additional 856 units between three complexes have been entitled but have yet to start construction
Those three include the 136-unit Luxury Apartments on Lathrop Road west of Union Road where structures and trees have been removed from the project site.
Another approved complex yet to break ground is the 420-unit Prose project planned for the western extension of Center Street.
The third project is the 300-unit Union Crossing complex on the southwest corner of Union Road and Atherton Drive.
There are 201 apartments currently under construction. Of those 192 are in the second phase of The Atherton complex on Atherton Drive east of Bass Pro Shops. The others are in a small complex on Stewart Street northeast of Powers and Yosemite avenues.
The proposed North Main Street and Lancaster Drive complex is being proposed by CDFRP Affordable Housing.
The firm — with offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, and New York — have owned, operated, developed and managed over 2,500 age-restricted units.
The parcel is behind the Moose Lodge and the small complex anchored by a gas station and convenience store that opened last year at North Main and Lancaster Drive.
It is the first rent-restricted complex that is not designed for seniors only to be proposed since the 153-unit Juniper Apartment complex was completed roughly a decade ago on Atherton Drive east of Van Ryn Avenue. That complex is considered workforce housing as the rent is tied to a set percentage of the renters’ income.
If approved, it would become Manteca’s third rent-restricted apartment complex. The other is on Wawona at Union Road.
There are four low-income senior complexes in Manteca as well.
Manteca largest apartment complex ever — the 672 units proposed on the southeast corner of the Main Street/120 Bypass interchange — is part of a larger housing development.
It will also include 48 duplex units and 98 single family homes to the east of Main Street with the homes on both sides of Atherton Drive.
That project is just north of the proposed 210 apartments on the southeast corner of Atherton Drive and South Street being pursued by the Bay Area-based SOMA group.
When those are completed as well as the Quintal Road project complexes, there will be 2,326 apartment units along Atherton Drive between Bass Pro Road and a point east of Van Ryn Avenue.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, mail dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
