January 11, 2018 -- With its 22 stories loped nearly in half, Frank Gehry’s newest version for a mixed-used tower on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica goes to the public for an official unveiling today -- the first of a trio of large and tall projects the City says must be cut down from their original size.

Located at 101 Santa Monica Boulevard, the project is no longer the 22-story, plume-like structure that triggered both high praise and dismay when first proposed five years ago ("Santa Monica Residents Respond to Proposed Gehry Building," March 22, 2013).

It now has 115 rooms (fewer than its original) and 79 residential apartments that include 19 replacement rent-controlled units, 18 affordable units and 42 market-rate units, according to City staff.

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