City Heads Toward Approval Of 64-Unit Crenshaw Apartments

The Los Angeles Planning Commission next week will vote on a consent calendar that includes the 64-unit Crenshaw Apartments project proposed for 3600 – 3610 W. Stocker St., according to its Thursday meeting agenda. The project is being led by Beverly Hills-based developer Axiom Real Estate Investments.

Plans call for a single-story commercial building and single-family dwelling at the project site, which also runs along Crenshaw Boulevard, to be demolished, making way for the six-story Crenshaw Apartments building. The project would also include about 5,000-square-feet of flexible commercial space to be used for a restaurant, retail, or office space.

The unit makeup of the development would involve 32 studios, 28 one-bedrooms, and four two-bedrooms, while six units would be set aside for very low-income households. Residential amenities called for in the project include private balconies, a gym, and a third-floor courtyard.

Designed by LA-based firm AFCO Development, the building would include units on floors three through six, with 45 parking spaces in two levels of parking. The project would also provide 60 bicycle spaces.

Also involved in the project is land-use consultant Gary Benjamin of Alchemy Planning + Land Use.

The three-lot, 18,657-square-foot project site was purchased by an affiliate of Axiom for just over $5 million, according to a pair of transactions recorded with the county in 2018.

Two of the requests the planning commission will decide on next week include that for a 22-foot project height increase to 70 feet, as well as a 20-percent reduction in open space to 5,200 square feet.

In an October letter, the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council signaled its support for the project while requesting for it to include 10 units, rather than six, of income-restricted affordable housing.