A cluster of early 20th century industrial buildings in Historic South-Central could make way for a new mixed-use project featuring apartments and retail, according to an application submitted this week to the L.A. Department of City Planning.

The project, proposed by Norman Family, LP, would rise from a property located just south of Washington Boulevard and 1915-1935 S. Los Angeles Street. Plans call for razing the existing buildings, completed between 1910 and 1947, clearing the way for the construction of a new seven-story edifice featuring 149 studio, one-, and two-bedroom dwellings with approximately 3,375 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. Parking for 102 vehicles would be located on the first and second floors.

Aerial view looking southeastAXIS/GFA

Project entitlements include Transit Oriented Communities incentives, permitting greater floor area and density than zoning rules would normally allow. In exchange, 38 of the new apartments - or 25 percent of the project's total - would be set aside for rent by low-income households for a period of 55 years.

AXIS/GFA is designing 1915 Los Angeles, which is portrayed in renderings as a contemporary podium-type building clad in smooth stucco and corrugated metal panels. Plans show a landscaped amenity deck at the third floor of the building, as well as a rooftop deck looking to the west.

Aerial view looking southwestAXIS/GFA

The project site, located midway between Metro A Line stops at Grand Avenue and San Pedro Street, is one of a handful of new developments in the works for the Washington Boulevard corridor, which sets the boundary between Historic South-Central and Downtown Los Angeles to the north.

On the opposite side of Los Angeles Street, AMCAL Multi-Housing is wrapping up work on La Prensa Libre, a 105-unit affordable housing complex on the former site of a La Opinion printing facility. To the west, a more than $1-billion high-rise complex has been proposed to replace the surface parking lots surrounding The Reef.