A long-planned residential site in Koreatown is nearing the finish line as an eight-story apartment building takes shape at 626-634 South St. Andrews Place. The project comes from Jamison Services, Inc., which had previously explored different development concepts for the property, including a smaller seven-story building and a later 16-story tower plan.
The current development will deliver 230 apartments in a mix of studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom floor plans. The building also includes approximately 800 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
Parking is planned within a 133-car garage. Of that total, 50 stalls are intended to serve the adjoining Wilshire Professional Building, another Jamison Services-owned property. The project was entitled through Transit Oriented Communities incentives, which allow added residential density near qualifying transit. In exchange, 23 apartments will be reserved for extremely low-income households.
MVE + Partners is responsible for the design. Renderings show a contemporary podium-style building with large windows, balconies, glassy stair volumes, ground-floor commercial space, and upper-level residential wings organized around open-air amenity areas.
Planned amenities include co-working space, a fitness center, a screening room, and a courtyard pool deck. The project site is located just west of Wilshire/Western Station.
The development also sits near the Wilshire Professional Building, a 14-story structure dating to the 1920s. Jamison Services has previously submitted plans to convert that neighboring building into live/work housing, separate from the new apartment project now nearing completion on St. Andrews Place.
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