A pair of restaurants located just south of Sherman Way in Van Nuys could be razed and redevelopment with a mixed-use apartment building, according to an application submitted this week to the L.A. Department of City Planning.

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The development site, a wedge-shaped property located at 7115-7131 N. Van Nuys Boulevard, is slated for the construction of a new five-story building featuring 214 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments atop 15,800 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. Plans also call for 208 parking spaces located at grade and in two subterranean levels.

Project applicant Benjamin Golshani of VNB, LLC is seeking entitlements including Transit Oriented Communities incentives to permit a taller building with greater floor area and density than otherwise allowed by zoning. In exchange, 24 of the new apartments would be set aside for rent as affordable housing at the extremely low-income level.

Khorramian Group Architects is designing the apartment complex, which is depicted in a rendering as a contemporary podium-type building glad in stucco and metal. Architectural plans show amenity decks at the podium and roof levels, with retail space oriented toward Van Nuys Boulevard and parking facing Sherman Circle to the west.

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The project is one of two large mixed-use apartment buildings planned near the busy intersection of Van Nuys Boulevard and Sherman Way. On the opposite side of the street, Alliant Strategic Development filed an application with the Planning Department in 2021 to build a six-story, 322-unit apartment complex on an L-shaped site at 7050 Van Nuys Boulevard. That project would also include street-fronting commercial uses.