Jeff Martin Looks to Build 50 Apartments in Silver Lake

The owner of BlueView Real Estate wants to bulldoze three century-old homes in Silver Lake and replace them with 50 apartments.

Jeff Martin, head of the Venice-based real estate firm, has filed plans to build a 70,400-square-foot complex at 1030 North Manzanita Street, Urbanize Los Angeles reported.

The project would replace a trio of century-old single-family houses south of Santa Monica Boulevard.

Plans call for a six-story building with 50 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments above parking for 50 cars.

The developer would employ Transit Oriented Communities incentives to allow a taller building than local zoning rules allow in exchange for six affordable apartments set aside for very low- and extremely low-income households.

The project, designed by Warren Techentin Architecture, would sheathe the building in brown stucco and metal screen, with protruding, semi-circular balconies, according to a rendering. It would be topped by two rooftop decks.

The proposed apartment building is down the street from the Junction 4121 apartments, a CIM Group development on Santa Monica Boulevard with a ground-floor Erewhon market, according to Urbanize.

— Dana Bartholomew