The Los Angeles planning department has given approvals to plans by Rocca Development for a five-story, 82-unit mixed-use apartment project to rise at the northeastern corner of the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and 52nd Street, according to a determination letter posted this week by the city.
Plans call for a roughly 66-foot-tall, 55,000-square-foot building with four levels of residential units above 1,847 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and 45 parking spaces. The mixed-use Park Mesa Heights development will replace a commercial building at the project site of 5300 Crenshaw Boulevard.
The latest plans list South Pasadena-based firm BFK Architecture + Planning as the project architect and Savage Land Design as the landscape architect.
Approvals given this month allow for Tier-3 project incentives under the city’s transit-oriented communities program, including a 70-percent density bonus, 22-foot height increase, and 25-percent reduction in required open space. The developer will reserve nine units for extremely low-income households in accordance with the TOC program, plans show.
In all, the community will contain 27 studio apartments, three one-bedrooms, 51 two-bedrooms, and one three-bedroom.
Plans also call for about 7,400 square feet of open space consisting of private balconies, a courtyard, a recreation room, and roof-deck space, among other features. Space for 74 bicycles will also be provided.
Rocca Development acquired the project site in September for about $1.75 million, according to planning documents and county property data.
