LAX Employee Housing Challenge
Westchester-Playa hosts LAX and manages a number of challenges related to the airport. Passenger traffic impacts are the most obvious. But there are other very significant…
LA’s Housing Target
Ultimately what’s driving LA’s push to up-zone more land parcels to create more housing units in the future?…
Current Community Plan (2004)
Here you’ll find links to the active Westchester-Playa Community Plan Update, completed in 2004…
2024 Housing Applications Down
The LA Planning Department produces a monthly newsletter. In it, they report housing application data, and for the first half of 2024, trends overall are declining…
Red Tail Crossing (100% Affordable) BUILT
Building type: 100% Affordable Residential + Permanent Supportive Housing
Case in LA: Affordable Adaptive Reuse
To get a sense of how much is going with LA’s new adaptive reuse program for creating new housing, one thing you can do is search “Adaptive Reuse” on Urbanize.LA.com…
Next-to-Benny’s APPROVED
Building type: Mixed-Use Commercial with Density Bonus (includes 3 VLI Units)
Staples > Senior Housing
Building type: 100% Residential, Market-Rate for Seniors
Kajima USA (formerly Sandstone)
Building type: 100% Residential and Market-Rate (No Density Bonus)
Tutorial: Adaptive Reuse 101
In their August 2024 Market Report, the CommercialEdge real estate blog confirms Los Angeles is clocking in at 24-25% vacant rates. That translates to some 83 million sq feet…
