A site once occupied by a Norm's restaurant in West Los Angeles is set for redevelopment with affordable housing, according to a new application to the Department of City Planning.

Thrive Living, which now controls the site at 11001-11021 W. Pico Boulevard, is coupling the vacant Norm's lot with an adjacent property to the west to propose the construction of a new eight-story building featuring 207 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments above 2,410 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a three-level, 156-car garage.

View looking north from Pico BoulevardRios

In exchange for affordable housing incentives through the citywide housing incentive program, thereby permitting a larger structure than allowed by base zoning rules, the project would 164 units of low-income housing and 42 units of moderate-income housing.

Rios is designing the podium-type apartment complex, which would include a fitness center, a gym, and a recreation room, and outdoor decks at the rear of the site.

11001 W. Pico BoulevardGoogle Maps

Plans to redevelop the Norm's site date to 2018, when NMS Properties previously sought to build a smaller 89-unit development on the site. That project did not include the adjacent commercial building included in Thrive Living's application.

Thrive Living's other Los Angeles projects include modular apartment buildings  in East Hollywood and Chinatown. The company's largest project will be an 800-unit development in Baldwin Hills featuring a Costco at the ground level.

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