Project at intersection of Wilshire and Barrington would replace current shopping center
By Dolores Quintana
Century Investments has filed an application to demolish the shopping center at 11701 Wilshire Boulevard after 20 years as reported by Urbanize Los Angeles.
Tony Yeh was responsible for the filing and the proposed plan is for a high-rise building. According to the staff report from the Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners, the project will be named Wilshire Barrington. The structure would be 24 stories tall and contain 152 units which will be a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments, 67,000 square feet of office space and 7,000 square feet of retail space on the first floor. This mixed-use building would also have an underground parking lot with three additional above-grade levels that could hold 397 vehicles.
This proposed structure would need to be approved for entitlements from the Transit Oriented Communities incentive program to build a structure that size that local zoning ordinances normally would not allow. As part of this agreement, Century Investments would only be required to reserve 16 of the 152 apartments as extremely low-income housing. The units would have to range between 616 and 1,395 square feet.
Wilshire Barrington’s designer of record is AC Martin. According to Urbanize Los Angeles, the building’s design would be a modern style high rise with a glass exterior with an “amorphous footprint facing Barrington Avenue to the east and its northern property line.” The office space would be located on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors. The living spaces would sit above the office spaces with amenities on the upper floors. Those amenities would include a fitness space, rooftop patio and swimming pool that would extend over 24,000 square feet.
Because this proposed project has not included land dedicated as a park on the site or nearby, they may have to pay a park fee of over $2.5 million. According to the staff report’s recommendation, they state that Century Investments should pay an in-lieu fee or pay a partial in-lieu fee and dedicate a portion of land for the project.
