Services Planning
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Planning at AO is about more than organizing land or infrastructure. It is about shaping authentic, resilient places that connect people and purpose. By bridging imagination and implementation, we transform big ideas into actionable frameworks grounded in design excellence, policy insight, and technical precision.
Services Planning
News | Ideas
by Steven Sharp | Orange County Business Journal
Architecture firm AO has unveiled renderings of Bolsa Pacific, a planned mixed-use development that will replace the former Westminster Mall. The project from Shopoff Realty Investments, which recently acquired the remaining components of the mall site, will span more than 83 acres. Plans call for the construction of: 15 acres of parks and open spaces, 2,250 residential units in a mix of for-sale homes, market-rate apartments, and affordable housing with approximately 220,000 square feet of retail space.
by Roger Vincent | Los Angeles Times
Oil giant Phillips 66, operator of a massive oil refinery near the Port of Los Angeles, has unveiled plans to replace its belching smokestacks and hulking steel tanks with stores, restaurants and soccer fields. Phillips 66 announced last year that it would close the century-old refinery and remove it to make way for a new development intended to provide services and recreation for people who live nearby, along with warehouses to serve the port.
