The city of Los Angeles has given the green light to a five-story, 30-unit apartment development set to rise at 11568 W. Pico Blvd. in West Los Angeles, a determination letter filed this month shows. The project applicant is listed as 11568 Pico Blvd LLC, an entity registered to a residential address not far from the project, while the representative listed in planning filings is Daniel Ahadian, founder of nūr – Development | Consulting.
Designs for 11568 West Pico call for almost exclusively studio apartments, with the project’s biggest unit being a lone one-bedroom. Three units are set aside for households with extremely low incomes.
Ahadian, who worked in various roles with the city’s planning department until 2014, is also providing consulting services through his firm for a recently proposed 39-unit project at 17630 Sherman Way in LA’s Lake Balboa neighborhood.
For the West LA project, the 16,670-square-foot building will have several amenities, including a ground-floor gym room and fifth-floor community deck, while 26 of the 30 units will have private balconies. Citing the late urban theorist Jane Jacobs, nūr wrote in application paperwork that the balconies will make “the building aesthetically interesting while putting ‘Eyes on the Street.'” The architect for the project is listed as Plus Architects, while SQLA is the landscape architect.
Development at 11568 West Pico will start with the demolition of the site’s existing one-story auto repair shop.