Douglas Emmett, Inc. has plans for lots of new housing at the busy intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards.

Yesterday, Douglas Emmett filed an application with the City of Los Angeles to convert a 17-story, approximately 247,000-square-foot high-rise at 10900 Wilshire Boulevard into 199 one- and two-bedroom apartments. The adaptive reuse project would be accompanied by ground-up construction of a seven-story building in the place of existing above-grade parking to the south, creating 124 additional homes. Parking for 416 vehicles would be provided within the project site, and existing ground-floor commercial uses would be retained within the tower.

VTBS Architects is designing both, according to plans included with the entitlement application.

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The City of Los Angeles is leaning heavily on adaptive reuse projects to meet the goals of its approved 2021-2029 housing element, which requires rezoning to accommodate more than 250,000 new homes. A RentCafe report released earlier this year estimated that there is 83 million square feet of office space in the city which could be suitable for conversion.

Such projects have been little seen in Westside neighborhoods, but are commonplace in Downtown Los Angeles and Koreatown, where Jamison Services, Inc. is rapidly converted its stock of aging Wilshire corridor office towers into housing.

Douglas Emmett's project sits next to an under-construction stop on Metro's D Line subway extension, the first phase of which opened earlier this month.

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