Ground will break for Brine Residential, a planned 97-unit mixed-use affordable housing project in Lincoln Heights, later this month, according to an announcement this week from the development team.
The proposed project is being led by developer Decro Corporation in conjunction with Daylight Community Development and will take shape on a roughly 2-acre site bounded by Johnston, Main, and Hancock Streets. It entails replacing a variety of commercial and residential buildings, including a former factory of A-1 Eastern Homemade Pickle Company, and relocating and rehabilitating three residential structures.
Designs for Brine Residential have been led by Togawa Smith Martin, with Burbank-based landscape architect TGP also involved, according to planning documents.
Project plans call for a five-story mixed-use building holding a ground-floor grocery store underneath four levels of apartments, as well as a two-story medical clinic building and a three-story medical office building at the northwestern and southern parts of the project site, respectively. The project will include about 72,000 square feet of commercial floor area, 124 automobile parking spaces, and 261 bicycle spaces, along with about 10,000 square feet of open space consisting of a fifth-floor terrace and other features.
The mixed-use residential building will contain 72 permanent supportive housing units serving seniors, veterans, single-parent families, and transition-age youth and 24 additional affordable housing units, with apartments reserved for a mix of extremely low-income and low-income households (not counting one manager’s unit). In all, it will include 56 studio apartments, 35 one-bedrooms, five two-bedrooms, and one four-bedroom.
Full-time case management and health and wellness services and programs will be provided by VIP Community Mental Health Center and The People Concern, according to this week’s announcement.
A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, March 22 at 3016 N. Main Street. It will follow Decro securing $110M in investment capital in November for several projects, including Brine Residential.
