Huntington Beach's long-anticipated new senior center may finally come to fruition now that a new developer has taken over the Pacific City project.
Crescent Heights, a Florida-based company that replaced Pacific City's previous developer this summer, is on board to pay about $22 million for the construction of a senior facility in Huntington Central Park, city and company officials said.
The City Council approved Pacific City, which would feature a hotel, condominiums and businesses on a 30-acre parcel, in 2004. Afterward, the city worked out an agreement with original developer Makar Properties, which promised to pay $22 million toward a new, larger facility to replace the Michael E. Rodgers Seniors' Center at 1718 Orange Ave.
Even though the project has since passed from Makar to Farallon Capital Management, and again to Crescent Heights, the arrangement still stands, according to Steve Afriat, a spokesman for the new developer.
"They bought the project with all its benefits and all its liabilities," he said. "That's how you buy a project."