27-Unit Mixed-Use Apartment Project Pitched For Studio City

The owner of a tire and auto repair shop building on Lankershim Boulevard and Whipple Street has plans to develop a four-story, 27-unit mixed-use apartment project at 4301 Lankershim Blvd., according to a planning case opened by the city this week.

The applicant and owner behind the project, which would rise near the eastern edges of Studio City, is shown as the Zareh & Lisa Krumian Family Trust, with architecture firm Envirotecture shown as the project representative and architect for the development.

Named Whipple Gardens, the development would replace the corner auto shop with a new 26,540-square-foot mixed-use building. Plans call for three levels of apartments over about 3,300 square feet of ground-floor retail and two underground levels of parking with a combined 61 spaces.

The unit mix would feature 12 one-bedrooms and 15 two-bedrooms, while three apartments would be set aside for very low-income households, plans show.

The project would provide about 1,800 square feet of common open space and 2,000 square feet of private open space, as well as 35 bicycle spaces.

Also involved in the design is Valley Village-based landscape architecture firm Harmony Gardens.