Rick Fletcher Fletcher: “The benefits of a three-story home like this are you get a side-by-side two-car garage, a large bedroom on the first floor, a main living area on the second floor and a lot more space to work with because you’re not sharing that living space with a two-car garage.”

NEWPORT BEACH, CA—The new crop of three-story residences going up in Newport Beach, Newport Mesa and Western Costa Mesa is capitalizing on the drive for density, sustainability and more efficient use of living space, MBK Homes’ VP of real estate operations Rick Fletcher tells GlobeSt.com. The trend might well be called a redevelopment renaissance in these areas, which have quickly become the center of Orange County’s commerce, culture, cuisine and more.

Newport Beach’s newest residential community, Ebb Tide by MBK Homes, is one example of this trend. Each three-level home includes a rooftop deck that covers the entire footprint of the home—some more than 800 square feet—acting as a super-sized take on the already popular trend towards outdoor living.

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