Eight months after we last checked in, vertical construction is now complete at a large apartment complex near Downtown Inglewood, and cladding is being applied to the wood-frame building.
Located at 417-433 Centinela Avenue, the project consists of a will a six-story edifice which will feature 116 apartments above a parking garage.
The real-life appearance of the building closely resembles a conceptual rendering produced for the project, which depicted a contemporary stucco apartment complex lined with cantilevered balconies.
The Centinela Avenue apartment complex is being developed by Long Beach-based Meldia Investment Realty of America, Inc., the U.S. affiliate of Japanese real estate investment firm Sanei Architecture Planning, Co., Ltd.
The development site is located a roughly half-mile walk from Metro's under-construction Downtown Inglewood Station, which will operate as part of the Crenshaw/LAX Line starting in 2021.
Other projects in development near the station include a series of townhomes now rising at the former site of Daniel Freeman Hospital, as well as the Market Gateway complex under construction at La Brea and Florence Avenues.
The Meldia Group project sits just north of the intersection of Centinela and Florence, where an already-built at-grade crossing on the Crenshaw Line is poised to be rebuilt in the coming years as a rail viaduct. The proposed grade separation, which is scheduled to break ground in mid-2021, would interrupt service on the 8.5-mile light rail line for a two-year period, though Metro would provide a bus bridge during that period.
