An environmental report published by the L.A. Department of City Planning offers an update on plans to build a large eldercare facility on a hillside property in Mission Hills.

The project, which would rise from a site at 15151-15155 W. Mission Hills Road, was submitted to the City of Los Angeles for review in 2021 by Ararat Home of Los Angeles, a senior housing provider focused on the Armenian-American community. Plans call for a total of 101 residential units in a mix of townhomes and apartments, as well as 330 assisted living, memory care, and in-patient beds, accompanied by parking for up to 299 vehicles.

Aerial view looking northwestZakian Woo Architects

Zakian Woo Architects of Culver City is designing the project, which would split the property into and upper and lower campus while retaining much of the 13-acre hillside property as green space. New buildings would range up to four stories in height.

New buildings would be clad in painted stucco, wood, metal, and ceramic panels, with private open spaces including multiple courtyards connected by pathways.

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Pending city approvals, construction of the campus is expected to occur over in three phases commencing as early as January 2025 and concluding by November 2031.

According to the organization's official website, the Ararat Home dates to 1949, when a group of Armenian-Americans purchased a two-story home at 3730 W. 27th Street in the West Adams district to provide accommodations for elderly members of the community.  That initial facility housed seven residents upon opening in 1951, and later went through a series of expansions which increased maximum occupancy to 80 persons. Ararat has since expanded to properties in Eagle Rock and Mission Hills.

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