We are moving back into the cities in record numbers, and American is playing a major role in this movement by reshaping urban life in Southern California.  Our past work includes building nearly 4,000 multifamily urban homes and mixed use facilities in California, Texas, and New Mexico.

American’s work has included multifamily housing for adults, seniors, students, and affordable housing for low-income.  These projects have been built for private clients, including Pulte, Lennar, CIM Group, Standard Pacific Homes, Legacy Partners and Newhall Land and Farming.  The Company has also built a number of university projects, including projects for the University of California at Los Angeles, California State University Stanislaus, and Chapman University. Historically, about a third of the Company’s workload has been in the prevailing wage sector.

American has been building multifamily projects in California since 1989. The Company has permanent offices in Huntington Beach, California and has worked on projects in New Mexico, Texas, and throughout California.

Although the Company’s work has predominantly been building ground-up multifamily urban and senior homes (rental and for sale), other projects have included renovation, seismic retrofitting, and historic preservation. The Company has self-performed up to 80% of the trade work on some projects, with in-house crews performing demolition, excavation, concrete, steel-erection, framing, masonry, plaster, drywall, painting, and high-pressure epoxy injection to repair seismically damaged concrete.  Although some past projects have been competitively bid, all of the Company’s work for the last several years has been negotiated.  American has taken the complete responsibility for the design on some projects. However, most of our other work has included participating in the preconstruction phase as part of the project team.  The Company is licensed as both a general building and engineering contractor, as well as carrying trade licenses for plastering, concrete-related services (including concrete restoration and gunite), and the application of synthetic products.

American’s multifamily home building experience involves complex high-end, four and five story buildings over retail and subterranean parking structures.   Recent American-built urban multifamily homes have sold for over a million dollars.  Work has also included design-build student housing, historic renovation of early California hotels to provide housing for the homeless, and rebuilding of the guest suite facilities for the historic UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. Densities on projects have ranged to over 100 units per acre.  Projects have included pile foundations, mat foundations, one and two levels of structured subterranean parking below the water table with systems to mitigate methane and tar.