The City of Redondo Beach has approved plans for new housing on a site near the South Bay Galleria, per a social media post from Mayor Jim Light.

The property, a former Frontier facility at 2819 182nd Street, is now approved for the construction of a project consisting of 158 total homes - including 131 townhomes and 27 units of affordable housing. Plans show three-story structures built around a series of private driveways.

While the project was approved administratively, the City of Redondo Beach had little choice in the matter, as the six-acre property was identified for development in the City's Housing Element.

"My preference was this vacant Frontier site would be a jobs center to address our jobs/household ratio," states Light in his social media post. "Our ratio is less than one job per household, which is why we have so many commuters leaving town each morning. But once the Housing Element was approved, the fate of the site was sealed."

Site plan for 2819 182nd StreetCity of Redondo Beach

The property last traded hands in 2019, when it was purchased by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks.

Redondo Beach officials voted last year to approve a 350-unit housing development a short walk to the north. That project is one of several new housing and commercial developments slated to replace parking lots surrounding the South Bay Galleria.

The development site also abuts the Redondo Beach Transit Center, a recently-completed $15-million project along Kingsdale Avenue near the Galleria. That site would have been convenient for patrons of the proposed South Bay Metro Rail extension to Torrance, which Metro staff had recommended be built along a historic freight rail right-of-way. Redondo Beach, as well as the members of the Metro Board of Directors, opted instead for an alignment running on an elevated structure within the median of Hawthorne Boulevard, leaving the future of the project uncertain.

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