Palm City • San Diego

A precedent-setting mixed-income community on an underutilized trolley parking lot.

The Project

The Palm City Transit-Oriented development is located on MTS-owned property at the Palm Avenue Blue Line Trolley station. In collaboration with MTS and National CORE, MID envisions a development that maximizes density at this transit site while also maximizing livability for its residents. The development will incorporate places to play, work out, and relax, optimizing its relationship to the Otay Valley River Park and connection to the Bayshore Bikeway. The development will also include mobility hub features to support trolley ridership and make it easy to live a less auto-oriented lifestyle.

Recognizing the gap in providing housing for the “missing middle” – residents who earn too much to qualify for traditional affordable housing but not enough to comfortably afford market rate housing – Palm City will provide 100 units affordable to families earning between 80-110% of area median income, with the balance of units as affordable housing.

Malick Infill’s Role

• Obtained Exclusive Negotiation Agreement (ENA) with MTS

• Concept Creation

• Entitlement Strategy

• Market Positioning (Affordable and Work-Force Housing)

• Project Programming

• Feasibility Analysis

• Design Coordination