A ceremony held yesterday in East Hollywood marks the debut of a Metro-adjacent affordable and supportive housing development from Little Tokyo Service Center.
The six-story Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments (SMV) are located on property surrounding the entrance to the B Line's Vermont/Santa Monica Station. The podium-type building includes 187 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units above 20,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
View from station plaza looking northLittle Tokyo Service Center
Rents for the affordable and supportive units are to be set at levels catering to households earning at or below 30 and 50 percent of the area median income level.
Koning Eizenberg designed the project, which wraps the adjacent Metro plaza with a mobility hub and new transit shelters. Ground-floor occupants of the building include a health center.
Interior of Vermont Santa Monica apartmentsLittle Tokyo Service Center
The new project is one of a handful of large, mixed-use buildings now planned or under construction near Vermont/Santa Monica Station, including an 85-unit building which built next door to the west and a 177-unit complex one block to the east. A third affordable housing complex recently began construction to the north along Vermont Avenue.
Other LTSC developments currently underway include affordable housing projects in Little Tokyo and Chinatown.
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