San Pedro’s latest mid-rise, Vivo on Harbor, is finished and already attracting attention and visitors via the ground floor Colossus Bakery that sits on the same footprint as the town’s former Grinder restaurant.
While several mid-rise mixed-use residential units have gone up over the past few years, Vivo, which broke ground in December 2022, appears to have bragging rights when it comes to water views.
Positioned at 511 S. Harbor Blvd. — across the street from the Battleship Iowa — full or partial water views for most of its 137 apartments will likely be guaranteed, developers said. Along with the battleship museum, the landscape across the street is taken up with the fireboat station, the town square, the Los Angeles Maritime Museum and, just south of that, what is the expansive West Harbor waterfront development and promenade.
Colossus is already packing customers in, developers said. It opened on Friday, Feb. 14 — Valentine’s Day — and is open seven days a week. It is the third location for the San Pedro bakery that offers a full food menu, including pastries and fresh-baked loaves of bread in small batches; it also boasts a full brunch, lunch, and dinner menu, including sourdough pizzas and natural wines.
With the port’s growing cruise business, developers said, tourists visiting the Iowa, where L.A. Fleet Week draws thousands on Memorial Day weekend, and the new West Harbor waterfront — set to have soft openings this year, with a grand opening in early 2026 — the cafe is expected to do well.
The new eight-story Vivo at Harbor mid-rise features a 1,500 square-foot ground-floor space and podium parking garage below the units that were a project from the Trammell Crow Company subsidiary High Street Residential. KFA Architecture designed Vivo.
“We love being part of San Pedro,” said Alex Valente, President for the Los Angeles office of High Street Residential.
The $70 million, eight-story development began construction and finished in…
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