171-Key North Hollywood Hotel Going Before Neighborhood Council

The NoHo Neighborhood Council’s Planning, Land-use, and Transportation Committee will review plans Thursday night for a 171-room hotel on Lankershim Boulevard, according to the committee’s meeting agenda. Proposed by Agoura Hills-based Napa Industries LLC in November, the hotel would rise seven stories at 5041-5057 North Lankershim Blvd. and 11121 Hesby St. after the demolition of two one-story commercial buildings at the project site.

Named Lankershim Hotel, the NoHo Arts District hotel would rise 85 feet and include 9,350 square feet of retail and restaurant uses out of its 115,532 square feet of new construction. The development would include a 5,200-square-foot ground-floor restaurant and 1,500-square-foot ground-floor retail space, as well as a 2,650-square-foot restaurant on the seventh floor. The applicant says in project filings that the retail space will be marketed to arts-based tenants, such as an art gallery or art supplies store. The project would provide 89 parking spaces between one subterranean level and one ground level and 50 bike spaces.

Designed by San Francisco-based AXIS/GFA Architecture + Design, which specializes in hospitality architecture, the hotel would include second-floor conference room and a fitness center and swimming pool on the seventh floor.

Rounding out the project team is project representative Katherine Casey, a senior project manager for consulting company Psomas. In its application filings, Napa Industries, which owns three of the four parcels making up the project site, says it is in escrow to purchase the fourth, which is located at 11121 W. Hesby St., from Michael John Raedeke of The JWR Living Trust.