Supportive housing developer A Community of Friends has filed plans to rebuild much of its two-story, 62-unit Las Palomas Hotel property into a four-story, 80-unit supportive housing project, a planning case opened by the city of Los Angeles this month shows.
The Boyle Heights project would retain the existing building’s brick walls facing North Chicago Street to the west and East 1st Street to the south but rebuild the interior structure and add two residential levels to the community’s total.
Built in 1925, the building was acquired and then converted by ACOF in 1996, according to the nonprofit’s website. Las Palomas currently contains 61 studio apartments for low-income individuals (plus one market-rate manager’s unit), 50 of which are targeted to formerly homeless individuals experiencing mental illness.
ACOF’s project plans call for about 21,000 square feet of new construction.
Designs are being led by project architect Koning Eizenberg Architecture and landscape architect Orange Street Studio, plans show.
