Onni Group files to build big apartment project on Pico Boulevard

Onni Group wants to make a big splash in West L.A. 

The Vancouver-based development giant has filed plans for a six-story, 265,000-square-foot residential building in Sawtelle, the Westside Los Angeles neighborhood known for its Japantown. 

The project will include 278 total units, according to a city planning description, and stretch over multiple lots across more than a dozen addresses. The properties are located at 11430 West Exposition Boulevard; 11460-11488 West Gateway Boulevard; 2425 South Butler Avenue; 2426 South Colby Avenue; and 11434 West Pico Boulevard. 

Details of the application have not yet been registered with the Los Angeles City Planning Department, but the project would represent one of the larger multifamily projects to recently enter the pipeline on the Westside. 

It also would add more density to Sawtelle, a relatively pedestrian-friendly neighborhood that developers have lately found attractive. Last September Carmel Partners filed plans for a 124,000-square-foot, eight-story project with 136 units. Jamison Properties is building a 100-unit project, while another complex, called West Edge, is close to opening. That complex, with 600 units and a 200,000-square-foot office building, is one of the largest new projects in the city. 

Onni Group’s L.A.-area properties include the DTLA apartment buildings 825 South Hill and Hope + Flower, a new complex in Hollywood and a luxury building in Long Beach. The developer owns and manages more than 11,200 apartments, has built 18.4 million square feet of offices and has 28 million square feet of space in the development pipeline, according to the company’s website.