No Place Like Home: Clark shapes the places we live from coast to coast

April 2, 2025

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Whether it’s downtown, on campus, or just outside the city, Clark is delivering connected communities that seamlessly integrate residential, retail, and commercial space. Our recently completed residential projects add thousands of places for people to call home throughout the country. 

Prima at Paseo South Gulch
Prima Exterior birds eye
Prima at Paseo South Gulch is a 19-story, 406,000-square-foot mixed-use tower featuring 278 luxury residential units. Photo by: Jeremiah Hull

Prima at Paseo South Gulch, designed by Earl Swensson Associates, is a 19-story, 406,000-square-foot mixed-use tower featuring 278 luxury residential units, 8,900 square feet of ground-floor retail, 20,000 square feet of office space, a fourth-floor amenities deck, and six levels of parking.

UCSD Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood
UCSD Living and Learning Neighborhood
Spanning seven acres and providing housing for 1,300 students, UCSD Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood was delivered in just 26 months. Photo by: Anton Grassi

Clark led a progressive design-build team with Perkins & Will to deliver the Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood, providing housing for 1,300 transfer and upper-division students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Spanning seven acres, the project features two high-rise towers along with two low-rise buildings. The apartments include six to eight bedrooms each with shared living, dining, and kitchen areas. Designed for LEED Gold certification, the project incorporates myriad sustainability practices, including all-electric systems, natural ventilation, and daylighting.

The ambitious construction plan delivered 580,000 square feet with nearly 200 apartment units within a 26-month schedule. To maximize efficiency and production, the team optimized unit stacking to reduce unusable space and minimize MEP shafts, saving 100,000 square feet of space. Collaborating early in the design phase led to standardizing four-bathroom and two-kitchen configurations, allowing prefabrication of over 800 bathrooms and 190 kitchens.  Prefabrication of bathrooms, kitchens, and exterior wall assemblies reduced costs while maintaining quality standards and meeting the aggressive schedule. The façade design was mirrored across both high-rise buildings to improve fabrication efficiency and incorporate vertical sun shading, which both reduced cost and achieved the energy model’s shading requirements.

The Westerly
The Westerly
The Westerly is a 420,000-square-foot mixed-use development, with thirty percent of its 449 units dedicated to affordable housing. Photo courtesy of Torti + Gallas

Located blocks from The Wharf, the city’s popular waterfront destination center, The Westerly is Hoffman & Associates’ latest mixed-use and mixed-income residential development in the heart of Southwest Washington, DC. Designed by Torti Gallas + Partners, the 449-unit development includes 20,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities and 29,000 square feet of neighborhood-serving retail space. The building’s distinctive façade is shaped by angular balconies that echo the flow of wind and water, inspiring the building’s name.

Substantial affordable housing contributions were made through the delivery of The Westerly. With 136 of 450 units designated as affordable, the development truly serves the needs of its community. With its highly desirable location, dynamic design, and elevated finishes, The Westerly successfully delivers high-quality housing at below-market rates. The ground-level retail space, which includes a family-operated restaurant, public charter school, and cultural space – is also tailored to the community.

Skymark at Reston Town Center
Skymark Reston Town Center
Due to significant wind loading on the tall structure, large, custom-welded steel “link beams,” constructed of four-inch thick steel plates, were coordinated with rebar in advance of the concrete pours and beam fabrication. Photo by: Quentin Penn-Hollar

Rising 39 stories in Reston, Virginia, Skymark at Reston Town Center, designed by SCB, is the tallest residential tower in the Washington, DC region. The new mixed-use development by BXP, which sits on top of a podium containing ground-floor retail, features 464 apartments, 44 loft-style units, and 80,000 square feet of office space. The property also includes townhomes with frontage along a new public park and garage parking for 630 vehicles. A shared amenity space spans the fifth floor and features a communal kitchen, co-working space with conference rooms, a dynamic sports bar, a fitness center, and an outdoor pool deck and terrace. The project is part of the next phase of the transit-oriented development that expands Reston Town Center in Fairfax County, Virginia. 

The construction of Skymark presented several unique structural and logistical complexities due to its height. Large "mega columns" at the perimeter of the floor plate and large shear walls at the core of the floor plate had to be poured monolithically, meaning the entire floor and shear walls were poured in one pour each. Detailed planning with the concrete supplier ensured the local plant could meet the needs of the large pours. Due to significant wind loading on the tall structure, large, custom-welded steel "link beams," constructed of four-inch-thick steel plates, were coordinated with rebar in advance of the concrete pours and beam fabrication. These massive steel beams, measuring up to 8 feet high and 13 feet long, were embedded inside the concrete shear walls. 

With particular care paid to interior finishes and craftsmanship, and the management of phased inspections and turnovers to facilitate building occupancy, Clark’s teams are delivering stunning spaces that maximize speed to market for residential developments.