Construction is in the home stretch for a big senior housing complex in Warner Center.

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The project, located at 6233 Variel Avenue, is being developed as a joint venture between South Bay Partners, LAMB Properties, and Columbia Pacific Advisors.  The eight-story building, named The Variel, replaces a cluster of small office buildings with 215 independent living units, 94 assisted living units, and 27 memory care units.

Designed by VTBS Architects, the project will include multiple private restaurants, a gym, a swimming pool, courtyards, and parking. The building closely resembles conceptual renderings released at the project's groundbreaking in early 2020, which depict a contemporary concrete-frame building wrapped in a series of boxy orange and grey protrusions.

Completion of the building was originally anticipated in Winter 2021.

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The Variel is one of three senior housing developments planned within the Warner Center community, joining a proposed a proposed 17-acre complex from Speiker Senior Partners at Canoga Avenue and Burbank Boulevard and a 190-unit project that would rise one block east on De Soto Avenue.

In addition to its Warner Center project, South Bay Partners is also planning a 192-unit senior living complex called The Bellwood near Century City.