The abandoned, graffiti-covered husk of a commercial building in Canoga Park is up for redevelopment with housing, per an application submitted earlier this year to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.

The project from PR2020, LLC, an entity affiliated with Parkview Financial, would rise from a mid-block site located at 22015 W. Vanowen Street in the Warner Center 2035 Specific Plan. Plans call for razing the existing, vacant building to make way for a new eight-story edifice featuring 211 apartments, a 1,200-square-foot cafe, and non-required parking for 137 vehicles.

Requested entitlements include Transit Oriented Communities incentives to permit a larger building than would normally be allowed by zoning rules. In exchange, 26 of the apartments would be set aside as affordable housing at the very low-income level.

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While architectural plans have not been uploaded to the project's case file, findings describe the building as being roughly 90 feet in height, with an exterior of metal and painted plaster.

The proposed project would rise from a site located a short distance to the west of the G Line Busway, as well as recently-developed projects such as the six-story, 154-unit building rising at 6801 Canoga Avenue. The property is also located to the northwest of the 47-acre former Rocketdyne plant on Canoga Avenue, where Mall of America owner Triple Five Group has reportedly walked away from plans to build a sprawling mixed-use project.

Non-development projects taking shape in the near vicinity include a new Frank Gehry-designed entry pavilion to the L.A. River bike path which broke ground last year at the intersection of Bassett Street and Alabama Avenue.

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