Foothill Boulevard Project Back Before Design Commission

The Design Commission will consider an application for final design review on a project that includes three six-story buildings with 233 residential units behind the landmark Panda Inn restaurant building at 3452-3488 E. Foothill Blvd.

The meeting begins at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The project includes some exterior remodeling of the Panda Inn building, but the historic first-ever Panda Inn restaurant will stay where it is.

Panda Inn Pasadena has been at the site since the mid-1970s, when it was opened by owners Andrew and Peggy Cherng.

Aside from the one-story Panda Inn building, the 11-story Gateway Metro Center office building stands on the site, with surface parking lots between and behind these two buildings.

The planned five-story parking structure will have up to 5,350 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.

The site consists of three adjoining lots totaling 4.3 acres on the south side of East Foothill Blvd. between North Halstead Street and North Rosemead Blvd.

The southern edge of the site adjoins the 210 Freeway. A tree inventory provided with the application identifies 68 trees on site, one of which is a protected mature tree, as well as two street trees.

In addition to the proposed five-level parking structure, with rooftop parking above ground and one and one quarter levels below ground, parking for the existing office building would be provided off-site.

Around the site stands one- to-three-story commercial, office, and institutional buildings and surface parking lots along East Foothill Boulevard. and newer five-story residential buildings and a parking structure adjacent to the Sierra Madre Villa light rail station.

The meeting can be viewed at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81591349012