102-Unit University Park Project Receives Approvals For Updated Plans

The Los Angeles planning department has granted approvals for updated plans to build a 102-unit multifamily apartment project at 806 W. Adams Blvd. in the North University Park neighborhood, a determination letter filed by the city last week shows.

Project applicant Robert Champion of Champion Real Estate Co. originally received project approvals from the city planning commission in 2019, with an appeal of the project denied by the city the following February. Last month’s approvals grant the project an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act and a compliance review allowing for a small density increase. (Original project plans, filed in 2018, called for 99 units.)

Designs call for six three-story buildings containing 99 five-bedroom units and three three-bedroom units, along with one four-story clubhouse building consist of a variety of residential common areas. Most of the 124,257-square-foot project site, which currently holds a two-story office building to be demolished, would be covered by ground-level parking, totaling automobile 255 spaces and 220 bicycle spaces. The development’s second level will include a network of courtyard areas.

The construction schedule for 806 West Adams entails two phases. The first phase will result in 33 units and 116 parking spaces, while a second phase calls for the remaining 69 units and 139 parking spaces.

The project architect is design and planning firm MVE + Partners.

Champion Real Estate acquired the project site for $26 million in 2018 and has said the project will be open to students but likely especially attractive to University of Southern California faculty and other employees. The project site is less than a mile from the USC campus.