Onni's new Hollywood apartments start to rise on Santa Monica Boulevard

A half-year after resuming work on Santa Monica Boulevard, Onni Group is now filling out the concrete podium of its first Hollywood apartment building.

The project, which spans the north side of Santa Monica between Orange Drive and Mansfield Avenue, will eventually consist of a seven-story edifice featuring 231 apartments above 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space.  Plans also call for 390 parking stalls in an underground garage. 

Onni entitled the project using density bonus incentives to permit a larger structure than allowed under zoning rules.  In exchange, 15 of the apartments will be set aside as deed-restricted affordable housing at the very-low-income level. 

RC Architecture is designing the podium-type building, which is to be clad in a mix of concrete and stucco.  Plans call for a series of terrace decks oriented toward the rear property line, providing a height transition to the lower-scaled neighborhood to the north. The building will include a series amenity decks and a courtyard swimming pool.

While the project at 6901 Santa Monica was originally expected to be built over an approximately 18-month period, delays resulting from the coronavirus pandemic have upended the anticipated construction schedule.

Onni Group, which has built a series of Downtown apartment towers over the past decade, is also behind plans for a 14-story office building at Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevards and 21-story apartment tower on Vine Street.  The company's portfolio also includes proposed and under-construction developments in Mid-Wilshire, Glendale, and Long Beach.

The project is the latest in mixed-use development to arrive in southwest Hollywood, following the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Anita May Rosenstein Campus, AvalonBay Communities' AVA Hollywood apartments, and an under-construction apartment complex from Massachi Industries located next door on Orange Drive.

• 6901 Santa Monica Boulevard (Urbanize LA)