The owner of a Dollar Mart and other small retail building at the northwestern corner of the West 6th Street and South Union Avenue intersection has plans for an eight-story, 100-unit mixed-use apartment project, plans posted by the city of Los Angeles this week show.
The proposed Westlake project would rise on a 0.66-acre site at 1709 W. 6th Street and is being led by property owner Elias Shokrian, according to planning documents and state business filings. Shokrian is seeking Tier-3 project incentives under the city’s transit-oriented communities program, including a 40-percent, or 29-unit, density bonus. The developer would reserve 10 units for extremely low-income households, plans show.
Plans call for replacing the site’s existing commercial buildings with an approximately 75-foot-tall mixed-use structure. The new building would hold five levels of apartment units over several above-grade and below-grade levels of parking and almost 12,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
Designs are being led by Lawndale-based architecture firm Icon & Ikon, with Yael Lir Landscape Architects also involved, plans show.
Referred to as The Legacy @ Sixth-Union in planning documents, the Westlake development would provide 117 parking spaces for its commercial and residential uses.
Other planned residential space includes a gym, podium deck, and multipurpose room with a kitchen.
