Continuing the area's building boom, three new developments on California Avenue Southwest are under review by the city planning department, including one developer's third major project here.

BlueStar Management Inc, developers of the planned Fauntleroy Place/Whole Foods and the recently announced Gateway Center mixed-use apartment structures, have applied to build a six-story, 91-unit apartment building with 4,000 square feet of retail at 5020 California. The structure will include parking for 95 vehicles.

Eric Radovich, BlueStar's managing director of public relations, said the project has passed early design guidance and has submitted for a master use permit from the city.

Currently, the site is home to a seven-unit apartment complex and two older homes, which will be demolished. Radovich estimates the proposed development costs to be around $24 million.

The company hopes to break ground this fall and finish building by the end of next year. Enough retail space to accommodate about four small businesses will be at the ground-floor level.

The Southwest Design Review Board, a city appointed board that reviews the bulk and scale of new developments, have yet to make their recommendations on the project.

BlueStar will be busy building in West Seattle for the next several years.

Fauntleroy Place, a project four years in the works, is expected to break ground sometime in May, Radovich told the Herald in March. It's a six-story, 170-unit apartment building at the intersection of Alaska Street and Fauntleroy Way.

Just across the street, Gateway Center is planned for where the now-closed Huling Bros. Buick showroom is, with construction expected to begin late next year and finish by early 2011.

The six-story building will have more than 100 market-rate apartments and three floors of underground parking for about 250 cars. The first two floors will be 47,000 square feet of retail space, with residential units on the top four floors.

Further north at 3743 California Avenue, in between PCC Natural Market and across from Hiawatha Playfield, an application is in to demolish a two-story brick duplex to build a three to four-story commercial development with 15,000 square feet of medical office. Parking for 10 vehicles would be located below grade.

Several other office and commercial buildings are directly north of the proposed building site.

An early design review is scheduled for Thursday, April 24 at the Southwest Police Precinct (2300 S.W. Webster St., Community Room) at 6:30 p.m.

Private developer James Paul Jones plans to build a three-story building at 6053 California to contain six live-work units, two three-story townhouse structures, for a total of nine dwelling units, and surface parking for 12 vehicles.

The site is located at Southwest Graham Street, just north of the Morgan Junction, and the buildings currently on the site date back to 1924.

A master use permit has been issued and the applicant is applying for a building permit now, said Jill Burdeen, a project manager with West Seattle-based Nicholson Kovalchick Architects, the design firm in charge of the project.

The older units would be removed, including three empty office spaces and one now occupied by Turning Point Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.

Rebekah Schilperoort may be reached at rebekahs@robinsonnews.com or 783.1244.