The Los Angeles Planning Commission on Thursday will review development plans for 1000 Mateo St., where applicant Mateo Arts LLC is requesting approvals to build an eight-story mixed-use project with 106 live/work condominium units and about 120,000 square feet of commercial space.
Planning commissioners will also review an appeal filed last month against approvals of a Vesting Tentative Tract Map for the project, which involves project site owner DART Partners LLC. The appeal was filed by Ford Allen of Bay Street Arts, who claims that a General Plan Amendment for height restrictions should not be given to the project, among other arguments. Planning staff recommend that commissioners deny the appeal and approve the Arts District project’s development plans this week, according to agenda materials.
If the project is moved forward, it will rise 127 feet on a 1.42-acre site at 1000 – 1026 Mateo St. Formerly used as a service center for buses by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, the site is bordered by Bay Street to the north, Sacramento Street to the south, Mateo Street to the west, and a light industrial building to the east.
Designed by Gensler, the development would feature residences oriented towards Bay and Mateo Streets to the north and creative office space on the other side of the building towards Sacramento and Mateo Streets to the south.
The ground floor would contain residential and office lobbies, an art production space, and retail spaces; the second floor would hold office space and live/work condo units; the third floor would hold more office space, condo units, and an uncovered courtyard facing Mateo Street; levels four through seven would include office spaces and condo units; and the eighth floor would offer amenity rooms including lounges, a fitness room, and a shower room, plus a roof deck, plans show.
A line of retail, building lobbies, and art production spaces would face Mateo Street and continue around both the Sacramento and Bay Street corners.
“An interplay between the three main program elements of retail, live/work and creative office informs the architectural design of the project,” the project team’s entitlement submittal set reads. “While the three main program elements are distinct, an interplay of pattern, massing, materials and slab alignment tie the overall project together.”
The project would also provide 402 automobile parking spaces within two above-grade and one underground level of parking, along with 145 bicycle stalls. Vehicular access to the development would be given through two two-way driveways: one along Sacramento Street and one along Bay Street.
