A year-and-a-half after a ceremonial groundbreaking, construction has commenced in earnest for a mixed-use development that will combine housing and a new Costco in South Los Angeles.

The project from Thrive Living, located on the former site of View Park Community Hospital at 5035 W. Coliseum Street, calls for the construction of a six-story building that will feature 800 apartments on its upper levels and a Costco on the ground floor featuring produce, optical services, a pharmacy, and delivery services. Five levels of underground parking would be included in the apartment complex.

View looking north from ColiseumUrbanize LA

Approvals granted by the City of Los Angeles will require Thrive to set aside 184 of the new apartments as low-income affordable housing, making the project eligible for development incentives permitting greater density and floor area than otherwise allowed by zoning rules. Additionally, the Thrive Living has announced that the remaining market-rate units are to be made available to renters with Section 8 vouchers, including families and seniors in the surrounding community.

AO is designing the development, which is to be built with prefabricated modular units. Plans call for indoor and outdoor amenity spaces, some of which are intended to cater to the surrounding community, such as outdoor spaces for movie nights and community gardens.

The project is also the first new housing community in Los Angeles to make use of AB 2011, a state law which streamlines the approval of new housing developments in commercial zones. Several other applicants have also made use of the bill in the years since, including the owner of the Woodland Hills Country Club, where a portion of the longtime golf course is poised to give way to new homes.

Aerial view looking northeastThrive Living

The project sits less than a half-mile south of Metro's Expo/La Brea Station, which is served by the E Line. Properties surrounding stops on the E Line have proven attractive to developers in the past decade, with large mixed-use projects starting to sprout near stops at Bundy Drive, Sepulveda Boulevard, La Cienega Boulevard, and Crenshaw Boulevard, as well as in Culver City.

Thrive Living, in addition to its Costco project, recently commenced work on an affordable housing complex near the B Line in East Hollywood and recently initiated plans for a new development in West Los Angeles.

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