A stretch of 1920s residential buildings across the street from Exposition Park are slated to make way for a mixed-use apartment complex, according to an application submitted this week to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.

The proposed development, filed by an entity affiliated with Ventus Group, would rise from a property at 3822-3828 S. Figueroa Street and 3801-3833 S. Flower Street. Plans call for razing 51 existing residential units, clearing the way for the construction of a new seven-story complex featuring 209 studio, one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments above 2,705 square feet of ground-floor restaurant space and a 40-car garage.

View from 110 FreewayKTGY

Requested approvals include density bonus incentives to permit a larger structure with more housing than would normally be allowed by zoning rules. in exchange, 42 of the apartments are to be set aside for rent by very low- and low-income households.

KTGY is designing the project, referred to as 3822 Figueroa, which is depicted in plans as a contemporary podium-type building with a T-shaped footprint. Plans show multiple amenity decks with views of the nearby USC campus and Downtown Los Angeles, as well as courtyards and other interior spaces.

3822 S. Figueroa Street landscape planKTGY

The project site shares a block with The Hub, a similar mixed-use project at 38th and Figueroa Streets which provides apartments catering to students at USC. It also sits one block to the north of an under-construction project at 3900 S. Figueroa Street, which was entitled for development with a 429-unit housing complex by Ventus Group.

Exposition Park, located directly across the street, is also undergoing changes of its own. Two new landmarks - the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center - are currently under construction, and new green space is set to begin work in the coming years at the southeast corner of the park at Figueroa and MLK Boulevard.

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