The MacArthur Park Neighborhood Council Wednesday night will review plans by a company for the construction of a six-story, 96-room boutique hotel development, its meeting agenda for this week shows.
The project is being led by applicant Kyong Ae Baek of 1040 Dewey LLC and would replace existing structures at 958 and 960 Menlo Avenue, a two-parcel site holding a single-family home and a triplex. First submitted in 2020, project plans call for an approximately 80-foot-tall hotel building with one 40-stall level of underground parking and another 17 ground-level parking spaces.
Designs for the planned MacArthur Park-area project are being led by Los Angeles-based project architect Corbel Architects, with Brea-based landscape architect SQLA also involved, according to planning application documents.
Plans show that J&T Construction LLC is also involved in the development proposal.
The approximately 20,000-square-foot Menlo Avenue project site was acquired by the project applicant in a pair of transactions in 2018 and 2019 totaling about $4.5 million, Los Angeles County property records show.
Requested approvals from the Los Angeles Office of Zoning Administration for the proposed project include a conditional-use permit and a zoning administrator’s adjustment to allow a 15-percent increase in allowed floor area.
