Just south of Old Town Torrance, completion is nearing for a new mixed-use project featuring multifamily housing above ground-floor commercial space.

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The project, which is being developed by Torrance-based Tower Energy Group, spans the south side of Carson Street between Gramercy and Andreo Avenues. The three-story edifice is set to feature 39 studio, one-, and two-bedroom dwellings above 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and at-grade parking for 47 vehicles. Approved plans indicate that units will range between 515 and 945 square feet in size.

Withee Malcolm Architects is designing the building with arched window bays at street level and a U-shaped footprint above its first floor, flanking a terrace deck. Architectural plans also show that the building will include a community room.

Tower Energy Group, the developer, owns commercial properties throughout the Los Angeles area and operates a chain of markets, according to its company website.

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Tower's new apartment complex is rising one block east of the intersection of Carson Street and Cabrillo Avenue, where Meta Housing Corp. completed work on the Cabrillo Family Apartments in 2015.  That income-restricted development was the largest housing development built in Torrance in more than 20 years, the Daily Breeze reported in 2018.