Close to two years after our last update, construction is in the home stretch for a multifamily residential building from developer Jamison Services, Inc. just past Wilshire/Western Station in Koreatown.

Located at 626-634 St. Andrews Place, the project consists of an eight-story building featuring 230 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments atop 800 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a 133-car garage. The garage also includes 50 parking stalls for use by the adjoining Wilshire Professional Building, which is also owned by Jamison Services.

View looking southeast from St. Andrews PlaceUrbanize LA

Jamison Services entitled the site using Transit Oriented Communities incentives, permitting a larger, denser building than allowed by zoning rules. In exchange, the project will include 23 extremely low-income affordable units.

MVE + Partners designed the contemporary podium-type building, which includes co-working space, a fitness center, a screening room, and a courtyard pool deck.

626-634 St. Andrews PlaceGoogle Street View

The under-construction project is the third concept considered by Jamison for the property on St. Andrews Place. In 2012, the company had pitched plans for a smaller seven-story apartment building, before later receiving approvals to construct a 16-story tower on the site.

While Jamison Services has built numerous ground-up apartment buildings in Koreatown, the company has more recently received attention for its ambitious late of adaptive reuse projects which endeavor to transform numerous Wilshire corridor structures into housing. The company could eventually turn its sights to the neighboring Wilshire Professional Building, having previously submitted plans to the City of Los Angeles to convert the 14-story tower, which dates to the 1920s, into live/work housing.

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