Brenner Capital has won a preliminary green light to build a 184-unit apartment complex in Lincoln Heights.
Lincoln Park Holdings, an affiliate of the Hancock Park-based investor led by Shay Yadin, was approved by the Los Angeles Planning Commission to build the seven-story building at 3601 North Mission Road, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. It would replace a parking lot.
Plans call for 184 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments at Mission and Lincoln Park Avenue, across from Lincoln Park and north of Los Angeles General Medical Center. The apartments would sit atop a parking garage for 101 cars.
Brenner received density bonus incentives to build a larger building with fewer parking spaces than zoning allows in exchange for 47 affordable apartments for very-low income households.
The Cape Cod-blue and white project, designed by Lahmon Architects of Culver City, would be built atop a concrete podium with decorative panels containing the garage.
On one side, a wall of blue metal panels with large windows would face Lincoln Park Avenue. The rest of the building would be clad in white stucco with black balconies.
The Mission-and-Lincoln complex would have a recreation room, business center and numerous courtyards, with rooftop and swimming pool decks.
Pending City Council approval, the complex could be built in 18 months.
The Planning Commission thumbs up followed mixed comments from both supporters and opponents within Lincoln Heights.
Detractors argued the complex would further gentrify the Latino neighborhood, and compared it to the 468-unit development under construction at 141 Avenue 34, which faced strong opposition from the community.
Lincoln Park Holdings bought the 1.2-acre property in October 2021 for $13.7 million.
In August, Yadin told The Real Deal that the project would bring life to the neighborhood and provide needed housing for local hospital workers. “They just don’t have a lot of good [housing] options,” Yadin said of the hospital staff, because the area hasn’t seen much development for decades.
The 92-year-old Lincoln Heights Jail, vacant since 2014 at 401 North Avenue 19. may also be up for redevelopment.
— Dana Bartholomew
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