The Oceanside Beachfront Resort represents the most significant oceanfront hotel development in San Diego County in more than 50 years; together, the Mission Pacific Hotel and The Seabird Resort span two city blocks and offer sweeping ocean views.
Mission Pacific Hotel—North Block
Mission Pacific Hotel is a vibrant beachfront sanctuary featuring 161 guest rooms and suites—most with private, ocean-facing balconies. Hotel amenities include a ground-level restaurant, coffee house, café, and market, an 11,000 sq ft indoor-outdoor rooftop pool and bar, a fitness center, and more than 3,000 sq ft of street-front retail. The 131,000 sq ft property has a lounge, fireplace, outdoor patio with fire pits, courtyard, and public garden.
Additionally, the boutique hotel features the historic Graves House, a local icon commonly known as the “Top Gun” house due to its appearance in a popular movie from the 1980s.
The Seabird Resort—South Block
The Seabird Resort features 226 guest rooms and suites, most with full or partial ocean views. The 192,000 sq ft property includes a restaurant, an indoor-outdoor bar lounge, a luxury spa, a library, an elevated 9,000 sq ft pool deck, and extensive indoor-outdoor meeting and event space, including a poolside living room and terrace.
The new development displaced surface parking by incorporating a two-story underground parking garage spanning the two blocks. Mission Avenue was closed between the two blocks to allow for the garage, and the team replaced it with an updated pedestrian-friendly streetscape. The development is part of Oceanside’s Nine-Block Master Plan, designed to accelerate the city’s renewal and help catalyze Oceanside’s rapid transformation into a thriving hub of active recreation, cuisine, and culture.
The “Top Gun” House
The Victorian-style home made famous in the 1986 movie, “Top Gun,” was carefully moved from its original location on South Pacific Street to the Oceanside Beach Resort. Considered a historical gem in Oceanside, the Top Gun House is known by history buffs as The Graves House – named for its original owner, Dr. Henry Graves, who enjoyed the beautiful Victorian as his vacation home in the late 1800s. When Paramount sought the perfect location for Top Gun character Charlie Blackwood’s residence, the studio settled on the historical Graves House as the ideal filming spot. The home has been repainted to match its 1986 color palette and filled with Top Gun memorabilia for visitors, including a refurbished Yamaha Kawasaki Ninja ZX900 Motorcycle, identical to the one Tom Cruise rode in the film.
Building Oceanside Beachfront Resort
We were able to help the General contractor manage the schedule by providing notification when rooms were not ready for us to complete our work. These notifications were well received and allowed us to work together as a team to clear roadblocks for us with other trades. With the late approval of the fixture package budget, we had to aggressively forecast the project without knowing the final contract value. We successfully did so as a team and brought the project to a close within our forecasted budget.
Our crews relied heavily on their BIM Department throughout the installation. Using BIM software that included Autodesk, Bluebeam Studio, PlanGrid, and Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bergelectric could update changes to the design and relay that information to installers in the field in real-time. Additionally, we utilized TopCon Total Station to accurately mark layout points for all our conduits installed in the concrete decks, electric room buildout, light fixture locations, and overhead feeder conduit racks.
This project had over 4,000 light fixtures provided by the owner, as we did not have control over purchasing these fixtures. The buying strategy offered additional challenges that we had to overcome. Close coordination with the owner and general contractor was vital to ensure alignment with our install schedule and fixture deliveries.
The busy beachfront location—right in front of the Oceanside Pier—created a burden for our team to coordinate job-site logistics. Berg’s crews implemented a plan to manage the public to ensure roadways stayed open and public safety was not at risk. The logistical plan became crucial—especially during the summer months. Part of this plan was to utilize a “just-in-time” delivery process. This process required our crews to lean on our prefabrication warehouse (located in Escondido, CA) to not only assemble complex and redundant components off-site but to store those components for delivery to the project site as needed. The prefabrication implementation eliminated on-site congestion and caused less of an impedance to the bustling Oceanside Pier area.
Now open to the public, The Oceanside Beachfront Resort has quickly become a must-go destination for locals and travelers nationwide.