NEIGHBORHOODS LA-Tall new residential towers are getting downright common in Downtown LA's most popular neighborhoods, like South Park or the Financial District, even the Historic Core, but now they're spreading somewhere new and unexpected: Skid Row.
But don't fret—this isn't some gentrification project; the 14-story tower proposed for a site at Sixth and Crocker Streets is from Weingart, operators of the nearby Weingart Center, which offers job services, transitional housing, and food to the people of Skid Row, and has been a fixture there since 1983, says the Downtown News. It would hold 200 units of permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless.
The new building would rise near the 11-story Weingart Center and would replace a one-story building that serves as a cafeteria.
The building, designed by Pasadena-based Gonzalez Goodale Architects, would have 200 apartments with glass balconies on its upper levels, and a workforce development center with three stories of offices below. (Read the rest.)
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CityWatch
Vol 13 Issue 31
Pub: Apr 14, 2015
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