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Developers intend to construct a three story, 25-unit affordable housing apartment building. (CRP Affordable Housing and Community Development)

Last updated: August 2025

Project name: Beverly Gardens Apartments

Location: 4444 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley

The site is on Scotts Valley Drive across from Erba Lane.

Project description

  • Total units: 25, including one manager’s unit. Four one-bedroom, 12 two-bedroom and 9 three-bedroom units are planned.
  • Affordable units: 24 “very-low income” units, based on state-set income limits.
  • Waitlist: 24 units are expected to be filled from the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Cruz’s Section 8 waitlist. That waitlist is closed and could open in 2026, Jenny Panetta, director of the housing authority, said in July 2025. 
  • Height: Three stories.
  • Details: Plans include 36 parking spaces, a community room, a bicycle storage room and open spaces.

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Status

  • Construction could begin in December 2025 or January 2026, wrote Vig Klamath, project manager at CRP Affordable Housing and Community Development. Construction could finish by June 2027.
  • An environmental assessment was completed for the project in March 2025. In January 2025 the project was preliminarily awarded $7 million in federal housing grants for recovery from the August 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire, Klamath wrote.
  • In September 2024, the city council voted to support an application from a nonprofit developer to apply for state money to construct affordable housing on the site.

Developer

The developer is San Diego-based real estate firm CRP Affordable Housing and Community Development.

The project would demolish a two-story commercial building with offices and shops. (Amaya Edwards — Santa Cruz Local/CatchLight Local)

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