High-rise apartment towers are springing up like mushrooms in Downtown San Diego, a red-hot market driven by the residential needs of a fast-growing life sciences sector that also is devouring lab space in the city.

The nine residential towers under construction in San Diego soon will be joined by a tenth: Cresleigh Homes is planning to build a 37-story apartment tower next to Petco Park, the San Diego Padres' baseball stadium.

The San Francisco-based developer wants to build a 443-unit tower on a site on Island Avenue currently occupied by a Ballpark Self Storage facility. The tower, which early cost estimates pegged at $233M, will have two levels of underground parking.

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