A development company tied to Joseph Englanoff filed plans last month for a seven-story, 40-unit mixed-use apartment project on Sunset Boulevard, less than a half-mile west of the Vermont / Sunset Metro station, according to a planning case posted by the city of Los Angeles this week.
Named Sunmar Apartments, the proposed East Hollywood project would take shape on a vacant, roughly 17,000-square-foot lot at the southeastern corner of the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and North Mariposa Avenue. The project site was acquired in 2019 by the project applicant for about $4.5 million, with a demolition permit for a lone single-family dwelling issued the following year, according to county and city records.
Designs by project architect Jamie Matz show an approximately 72-foot-tall, 51,000-square-foot project holding seven one-bedroom apartments, one two-bedroom, one four-bedroom, 28 five-bedrooms, two six-bedrooms, and one seven-bedroom. The project would include one level of underground parking, providing 51 automobile parking spaces and 35 bicycle spaces, plans show.
The developer is seeking Tier-3 project approvals under the city’s Transit Oriented Communities Incentive Program, including a 14-unit density bonus. It would reserve eight apartments for very low-income households in accordance with the TOC program, plans show.
Plans also call for about 1,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space and about 4,000 square feet of common open space, including a pair of courtyards and a rooftop area.
Also involved in designs is landscape architect Courtland Studio.
