Those courtyards were called Court of the Laurels and Court of the Mariners, and their design was reportedly inspired by the Spanish-style villas of Puerto Vallarta. The apartment building, renamed La Bahia in 1964, was famous for its Juliet balconies overlooking its interior courtyards. The Casa Del Rey Hotel, which had become a retirement home, was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and was razed shortly after.
What would eventually come to be known as La Bahia was originally called the Casa Del Rey Apartments, and offered more luxurious and/or longer-term stays than the bigger hotel. The La Bahia, with its bell tower, was originally built in 1926 as a kind of companion to the much larger and grander Casa Del Rey Hotel next door, which had been built 15 years before. For years, Boardwalk visitors and locals have seen only a shadow of what was once envisioned as part of a Hollywood-style resort hotel known as the Casa Del Rey. The Ensemble project is only the latest in several earlier plans to redevelop the La Bahia. The new hotel will feature 155 rooms, as well as a meeting space, a spa and two restaurants. Ensemble, owner of a couple dozen hotels and other properties, will oversee the construction of the project and will manage the hotel once it opens. The Santa Cruz Seaside Company, the longtime owner of the property, announced Monday that it has entered into a joint venture with Ensemble Investments - the owner of the Dream Inn Santa Cruz - to build the new hotel, which is estimated to open in late 2024, just two years short of the original hotel’s centennial. Guidelines here.Īfter years in bureaucratic and development limbo, and after decades of sliding into decrepitude, the landmark La Bahia Apartments is finally poised for a dramatic rebirth as Santa Cruz’s answer to Hotel California.Ĭonstruction has already begun on a new luxury hotel on the site directly across the volleyball courts on Main Beach that will incorporate the last remaining Spanish Colonial structures of the old La Bahia, including the iconic bell tower. Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers.
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