Panoramic Interests specializes in innovative, infill development.

Since 1989, it has completed 13 mixed use, infill projects in and around downtown Berkeley, California -- adding more than 500 new units of housing, and 100,000 s.f. of commercial space.

The Berkeleyan Apartments, a mixed use project built in 1998, was the first new rental housing project by a private developer in the downtown area since World War II.

From 2004 - 2007, Panoramic was the largest private landlord of UC Berkeley students. It also provided more affordable housing in its 7 mixed use projects than the Berkeley Housing Authority. (In April 2007, it sold all its residential developments to the Equity Residential REIT, in the largest real estate transaction in Berkeley's history.)

The firm has always embraced innovation.

All of its rental projects had roof top gardens, energy efficient designs, and ground floor retail space reserved for local businesses. The Gaia Building (2001) dedicated 11,000 s.f. of its ground floor for cultural space, and is now the home of the Marsh Berkeley Theater (TheMarsh.org).

In 1995, Panoramic installed the first independently accessed stacked parking lifts in a commercial development in the United States. It was also the first commercial developer to incorporate on-premises City CarShare in its buildings.

Its current focus is on car-free, sustainable housing, close to transit, particularly for students and workers.

One project of particular interest is SmartSpace® Soma: a 4-story, LEED Platinum, condo development in San Francisco, which it is now developing with ZETA Communities (ZETAcommunities.com).