Plans for a five-story, 14-unit apartment building in Mar Vista can move forward, according to a determination letter posted by the Los Angeles planning department earlier this month.
Named Centinela 14, the project is being led by an entity state business filings show is managed by Belal Al-Shawe and will rise at 2512 – 2514 S. Centinela Ave. It will replace a single-family dwelling with a new, approximately 63-foot-tall building holding about 11,500 square feet of floor area.
Approvals given this month allow for Tier-3 project incentives under the city’s Transit Oriented Communities Incentive Program, including a 70-percent density bonus in lieu of eight units allowed otherwise, as well as an 18-foot height increase. The new community will contain two apartments reserved for very low-income households, per the TOC program, plans show.
Designs for the planned Mar Vista development are being led by LA-based architecture firm Telemachus Studio, according to planning documents.
Plans call for the project to provide one level of underground parking and one level of at-grade parking totaling 11 stalls.
The development will also include about 1,330 square feet of open space including an almost 900-square-foot roof-deck area.
