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Jamison plans office-to-home conversions on LA’s Wilshire Boulevard

17-story Mid-century office building would become 210 apartments

Jamison Properties' Jaime Lee; (left) 6380 Wilshire Boulevard; (right) rendering of its adaptive reuse into apartments (Getty, Linkedin, Loopnet, Next Architecture)
Jamison Properties' Jaime Lee; (left) 6380 Wilshire Boulevard; (right) rendering of its adaptive reuse into apartments (Getty, Linkedin, Loopnet, Next Architecture)

Jamison Services, a leading developer of Los Angeles office-to-home conversions, aims to turn a 17-story office building in Carthay into apartments.

The Koreatown-based developer has filed plans to convert the 144,000-square-foot office tower into 210 apartments at 6380 Wilshire Boulevard in Central L.A., Urbanize Los Angeles reported.

Plans call for converting the 60-year-old, Mid-century Modern tower into 210 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. An above-grade parking garage would serve 176 cars.

The adaptive reuse project, designed by Next Architecture of Long Beach, would retain the building’s current windows and glazing, while adding new windows to parts of the parking garage and a new rooftop penthouse.

The new apartments would contain 27,000 square feet of community uses, including a theater, coworking area, fitness center, club room, yoga studio, game room, golf simulator, sky lounge  and a rooftop swimming pool deck.

The Jamison conversion would be two blocks east of Metro’s upcoming Wilshire/Fairfax subway station and near a handful of new and proposed residential projects, according to Urbanize.

Jamison Services, a unit of Jamison Properties, has led a growing number of developers in turning offices into condominiums or apartments as companies cut back on office leases in the era of remote work.

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Think tank Rand identified 2,300 underused office and hotel properties in Los Angeles County that could be converted to housing. Most of them are older office buildings with big chunks of unrented space, according to a March 2022 study.

If all the underused buildings were turned into homes it would add up to 113,000 units, Rand said. That’s between 9 and 14 percent of the housing needed over the next eight years to meet demand.

As of last fall, Jamison has converted seven office buildings to residential use for a combined 1,200 units, nearly all of which are leased.

Last month, it filed plans to convert a 95,000-square-foot office building in Westlake into 141 apartments at 520 South La Fayette Park Place. 

In August, the company filed plans to convert the Pierce National Life Building, an office fixture in Koreatown for half a century, into a 13-story, 176-unit apartment building at 3807-3815 Wilshire Boulevard.

— Dana Bartholomew

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