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71-Unit Gramercy Park Project Planned

Plans call for a 56-foot-tall apartment project to replace multiple commercial buildings in Gramercy Park

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The owner of three parcels along South Western Avenue in the Gramercy Park neighborhood has filed plans for a five-story, 71-unit apartment project, a new planning case opened by the city of Los Angeles shows.

The multifamily development would rise at 8942 – 8960 S. Western Ave. and 1771 – 1779 W. 91^st St., replacing three buildings totaling 13,167 square feet at the northeastern corner of those two streets.

The owner and applicant behind the project is shown as Legass Investments Inc., a company listed in application documents next to the signature of Negest Legesse. The developer is requesting Tier-1 project incentives under the city’s transit-oriented communities program, including a 50-percent density bonus and 11-foot height increase to 56 feet, plans show.

Designs call for 44 studios and 27 one-bedroom apartments along with 36 on-site automobile parking spaces and 62 bicycle spaces. The project would also provide 7,125 square feet of common open space, including amenities such as a 5,784-square-foot second-floor courtyard.

The development would reserve six units for extremely low-income households, plans show.

The project representative is listed as Dana Sayles of entitlements consulting company three6ixty.

8942 S. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90047

Dean Boerner

Dean Boerner is a California-based writer previously with Bisnow and the San Francisco Business Times. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and business from Saint Mary's College of California, where he also served as the editor-in-chief of The Collegian, the school's campus newspaper. Before that, he spent two years as the publication's sports editor, and he remains a committed fan, for better or worse, of his Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Giants, and Saint Mary's Gaels.