In February 2023, rebar and concrete were starting to protrude above street level at 6801 Canoga Avenue and 21401 Vanowen Street, where construction was underway for a new mixed-use apartment complex from Panoptic Development. More than one year later, the status of that project remains largely unchanged, but this time for good reason.

The River Point project, originally planned as a six-story, 154-unit development with ground-floor retail and subterranean parking seems to be growing. Plans now being reviewed by the Department of Building and Safety indicate that the project is now envisioned as a taller eight-story edifice featuring 203 residential units on its upper floors. The total increase amounts to roughly 40,000 square feet of additional building area.

City records indicate that Stockton Architects, Inc. remains the design firm attached to the project. The earlier iteration of the building was depicted in a rendering with a colorful stucco exterior, and was slated to include amenities such as a fitness center and a dog park.

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Property records list the owner of the site as the entity 6801 Canoga, LLC, which is managed by developer and investor Gagandeep Lakhmna. Lakhmna, who has previously been connected to infill projects in Los Angeles, has also faced protests and lawsuits over his prior work in Philadelphia and Nashville. City records indicate that the property sold to 6801 Canoga in 2022 for $14.5 million.

The project site sits directly across the street from a 47-acre site that formerly housed a manufacturing facility for the aerospace firm Rocketdyne, which has long been marketed as a development site, although firm proposals have yet to come to fruition.

It also sits due east of a recently-completed 174-unit project at 21425 Vanowen Street and a proposed 211-unit development at 22015 W. Vanowen Street.

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