The developer behind a mixed-use residential project that will bring a Costco to Baldwin Hills is dialing up the density, according to a new application filed this week with the City of Los Angeles.

The project from Thrive Living, which began work earlier this year at 5035 W. Coliseum Street, was approved through AB 2011 as a six-story building with 800 apartments on its upper levels and an approximately 145,000-square-foot Costco on the ground floor featuring produce, optical services, a pharmacy, and delivery services. 

Aerial view looking northeastThrive Living

An updated filing, utilizing the City of Los Angeles' Transit Oriented Communities guidelines, revises the layout of the approved project to add 118 additional residential units to the project, which will be a 100 percent affordable housing development. Additionally, Thrive is opting to remove one of five levels of subterreanean parking from the original plan. The remaining garage will provide 1,313 spaces, including 881 spaces for the Costco and 432 spaces for residential uses.

AO and Rios comprise the architectural team for the project, 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. Multiple courtyards are shown in plans along the podium deck of the building.

CourtyardThrive 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, is also developing an affordable housing complex near the B Line in East Hollywood and has initiated plans for a new development in West Los Angeles.

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