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Little Tokyo Towers Slated For Renovation

The almost 50-year-old building would include bigger units and a changed look under current plans

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The Los Angeles planning department has received renovation plans for Little Tokyo Towers, a 301-unit senior affordable housing community in Little Tokyo at 455 E. 3rd Street, according to planning case filed by the city this month.

Non-profit Little Tokyo Towers Corporation‘s plans for the 16-story building include improvements to the exterior path of travel and changes to 296 of 301 units’ floor plans. All but five units will have balconies reduced and a larger interior floor area.

The community was built in 1975 thanks to a HUD Section 236 loan made possible thanks to the non-profit sponsorship by Japanese-American organizations, according to Royal Property Management, the community’s property manager.

The building is owned by Little Tokyo Towers Corporation.

Other companies involved in the project include Basis Architecture & Consulting Inc., as well as consulting firm The Santa Maria Group, which is the project representative, plans show.

Other renovation plans include landscaping changes, changes to the exterior facade, unit interior improvements, and a remodeling of ground-floor common spaces.

Photo: Basis Architecture & Consulting Inc.

Rendering: Architect Charles Pick, Basis Architecture & Consulting Inc.

455 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

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.