Emser envisions 276-unit apartment complex on Woodland Hills corner

Emser International has filed plans to replace a 1960s office building in Woodland Hills with 276 apartments.

The West Hollywood-based real estate investment firm led by Ehsan Ghodsian has proposed an eight-story complex at 6464 Canoga Avenue in Warner Center, Urbanize Los Angeles reported, citing a local neighborhood council agenda.

It would demolish a 64,000-square-foot Mid-century modern office building, built in 1964, at Canoga and Victory Boulevard.

Plans call for a 100-foot-tall, 270,400-square-foot building with 276 apartments and 4,000-square feet of ground-floor shops and restaurants. A two-level parking garage would go underground.

The developer would employ density bonus incentives to exceed local zoning rules in exchange for 28 affordable apartments for very low-income households. 

Permit records describe the project as a podium-type building, with five levels of wood-frame construction above a concrete base, according to Urbanize.

Although the property has been listed, it hasn’t sold, according to city records. It belongs to Emser, affiliated with West Hollywood-based Emser Tile. 

The family-owned Emser, founded in 1968, produces and sells decorative stone and tile at 78 showrooms nationwide. Its real estate arm is based at the same address as its historic headquarters in West Hollywood, according to state business records.

The proposed development site is north of another aging office building at 6400 Canoga Avenue, which Westwood-based Sandstone Properties will bulldoze to make way for two 27-story towers containing 610 apartments.

— Dana Bartholomew

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