176-unit development set for construction at 2225 Sunset in Echo Park

In Echo Park, L. a.-based mostly exact property funding agency Cypress Equity Investments (CEI) has acquired metropolis clearances for The enchancment of A mannequin new multifamily residential complicated shut to the busy intersection of Sundown Boulevard and Alvarado Road.

View wanting northeast from Sundown BoulevardOttinger Architects

In November, the Division of Constructing and Safety issued enchancment permits to CEI for A mannequin new enterprise at 2225 Sundown Boulevard. The mannequin new seven-story building, which acquired City Planning Fee Log offs in Might 2021, will function 176  studio, one-, two-, three-, 4-, and 5-bed room flats on an amorphous website which additionally fronts on Mohawk and Elsinore Roads. Plans additionally name for 203 parking spaces in a podium and basement storage.

Project entitlements for 2225 Sundown embrace Transit Oriented Communities incentives, permitting a building with greater peak and density than usually allowed by zoning guidelines. In commerce, CEI would Put aside 18 of the proposed flats as deed-restricted pretty priced housing On the terribly low-income diploma. 

Ottinger Architects is designing the enterprise, which is depicted in renderings with A up So far exterior consisting of metallic panels and wooden siding. The building would pare down in peak to a 4-story profile on Elsinore Road to the north. Whereas the enterprise Wouldn’t inagency floor-flooring retail space, plans do name for enterprise  street-fronting stay/work mannequins alongside Sundown Boulevard.

Pictures posted to The internet website of Integrare Group, the enterprise’s widespread contractor, additionally current amenities Similar to a courtyard and a rooftop deck

View from Elsinore RoadOttinger Architects

The design of 2225 Sundown, Based on the Ottinger Architects internet website, was impressed by The state of affairs’s hillside location.

“The floor plates act as extrusions out of and up from the topography,” reads a design narrative.  “Every flooring plate is expressed as a regular band of balconies or cornices that wrap Throughout the building and The numerous angles of the floorings create movement and stayliness.”

Construction of 2225 Sundown Is predicted to happen over an roughly 28-month interval, Based on the findings of an environmental research adopted by The l. a. City Council.

2225 Sundown BoulevardGoogle Maps

The proposed enchancment joins a handful Of comparable multifamily residential buildings proposed shut to Sundown and Alvarado, collectively with a mixed-use construction slated to rise On The state of affairs of Taix Restaurant. That enterprise recently acquired a final Log off from The metropolis Council.

Whereas CEI Might Even be based mostly in L. a., The majority of The agency’s exercise is concentrated Inside The metropolis of Santa Monica, the place it has Greater than a half-dozen tasks deliberate or beneath enchancment.