A company has filed plans to develop a five-story, 55-unit apartment building a couple of blocks west of Echo Park, according to a new planning case posted by the city of Los Angeles this week.
The proposed development would rise at the northwestern corner of the intersection of North Alvarado and Kent Streets and is being led by investment firm Manhattan West, which owns the project site, and representative Jason Grant of Local Development LLC, plans show. The project would replace a pair of single-family homes and a vacant lot at 801 – 809 N. Alvarado St. and 2107 – 2111 Kent Street, a two-parcel site acquired by Manhattan West in December for about $4.25 million, according to county property records.
The development team is seeking Tier-2 project approvals under the city’s Transit Oriented Communities Incentive Program, including a 21-unit, or approximately 60-percent, density bonus and a 20-percent decrease in required open space. It would reserve five units for extremely low-income households in accordance with the TOC program, plans show.
Designed by Warren Techentin Architecture, plans call for a roughly 40,000-square-foot, 56-foot-tall building with six studio apartments, 37 one-bedrooms, and 12 two-bedrooms. Studios would range in size from about 368 to 379 square feet, ones from 468 to 582 square feet, and twos from 729 to 894 square feet, according to planning documents.
Plans also call for around 4,750 square feet of common open space, including a 3,025-square-foot roof deck, an amenity room, and a fitness area, among other features.
Named Alvarado Apartments in application materials, the project would provide 40 automobile parking spaces between one at-grade and one subterranean level of parking, along with space for 50 bicycles.
