Abode Communities Pitches Latest Affordable Rentals Near LA

Hawthorne is gaining an affordable housing complex on city-owned land near the intersection of Rosecrans and Prairie Avenues.

Abode Communities is moving forward with plans to build residences on a vacant lot on Cordary Avenue next to New Journey Ministries Church of God in Christ, Urbanize Los Angeles reported.

Abode is looking to build a five-story structure with 94 apartments restricted to renters earning up to 80 percent of the area median income. That works out to roughly $84,850 for one person or $121,150 for a household of four. Total cost of the project is estimated at $56.7 million, per city documents cited by Urbanize Los Angeles.

Hawthorne city officials convened a community meeting regarding Abode’s project earlier this year, according to Urbanize. The latest notice of exemption issued by city officials would allow Abode to build residences on the City-owned commercial lot with a mixed-use zoning overlay.

In addition to the Cordary Avenue proposal, the Boyle Heights-based firm has floated building a mixed-use complex on a Los Angeles Metro-owned property at Wilshire and Crenshaw Boulevards, Urbanize reported. Dubbed “Walnut Crossing,” that development would include 196 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments with ground-floor retail space and a subterranean parking garage.

Abode is currently under construction on a handful of multifamily properties across Los Angeles County, according to its website.

The Carlton affordable residential community is rising at 5407 South Western Avenue in Angeles Mesa with 60 planned units.

Abode and the City of Pasadena are now leasing 142 affordable micro-efficiency senior rental apartments at Centennial Place, a property at 235 East Holly Street in Pasadena listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Another 59 units are in the works at the Central Place Apartments at the corner of 90th Street and Central Avenue in South Los Angeles.

Leasing at Manchester Urban Homes, consisting of a mix of 120 townhomes and multifamily residences at 8727 South Broadway, closed in January, as did applications for the Grandview Apartments next to MacArthur Park.

— Chris Malone Méndez