AMLI Aero

Photo courtesy of AO Architects

AMLI Aero is a completed 8-story multifamily residential development, located along and named for Aero Drive in Kearny Mesa. Taking the place of an under-utilized office building demolished in 2022, the complex is one of many large housing projects coming to the neighborhood, as well as AMLI Residential's first development in San Diego.

The project features 442 market rate residential units spread across six floors, consisting of everything from studios to three-bedroom apartments, with two-story penthouse suites on the sixth floor. The eighth floor features amenities such as a rooftop pool, large fitness center, and community clubhouse; the complex also offers multiple communal spaces for working and relaxing. The entire apartment complex wraps around a large hidden parking garage in its center, with EV charging stations and bike storage areas on every floor.

Photo courtesy of AO Architects

The complex is centrally located within Kearny Mesa, allowing for easy access to local schools, shopping, hospitals, as well as the Convoy district just a few minutes away. Residents also have easy access to the 25 and 120 bus routes.

AMLI Aero and its neighboring new apartment complexes signal an era of change in central San Diego, a welcome sight as home prices in the surrounding post-war suburbs continue to be sky high with limited local rental opportunities for decades. As this need for new housing of all kinds reaches a boiling point, San Diego's first ring of aging car-oriented development continues to be a prime candidate for this style of infill redevelopment.