A developer wants to raze a century-old apartment building in Hollywood for a five-story apartment building.
Jack 26 Properties, a Los Feliz-based limited liability company led by Piaman Nisan Pirian, has filed plans to build the 20-unit building at 1954 North Argyle Avenue, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. His brother, Benny Pirian, submitted the apartment plans.
The firm would bulldoze a two-story, five-unit Spanish Revival complex built in 1922 around a central turret.
Plans for its replacement project, designed by Sawtelle-based Maly Architects, call for 20 one- and two-bedroom apartments atop parking for 21 cars, according to Urbanize.
The developer would employ Transit Oriented Communities incentives permitting a larger building than zoning rules allow in exchange for two affordable apartments set aside for extremely low-income households.
The Pirian brothers have proposed redeveloping a car wash at 1666 North Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz with a 139-unit apartment complex, The Real Deal reported. In 2009, the brothers were accused of not paying 54 car wash employees a total of $1.3 million in wages.
They were sentenced to a year in prison after they pleaded no contest to a half-dozen criminal counts, including conspiracy, grand theft and labor code violations at their car washes.
Piaman Pirian founded Jack 26 Properties in 2019, according to state business records. It’s not clear how much the company paid for the Hollywood apartments.
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