New Genesis Apartments

Format
Brief

City
Los Angeles

State/Province
CA

Country
USA

Metro Area
Los Angeles

Project Type
Mixed Residential

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Art Studios
Event Space
Garden
Health care facility
Mixed Residential
Mixed-Use Building
Retail
Underground Parking

Keywords
Affordable housing
Creative placemaking
LEED Platinum certified
Stormwater management
Supportive housing

Site Size
54237 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
1989

Date Opened
2012

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New Genesis Apartments is a 106-unit, mixed-income, mixed-use housing redevelopment project that includes local retailers, affordable artists’ lofts, and supportive housing services. The project is located between downtown Los Angeles’s burgeoning historic core and the city’s Skid Row neighborhood, a 50-block area that is home to more than 4,600 people who lack permanent stable housing.

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Development team: Skid Row Housing Trust
Design team: Killefer Flammang Architects
Project size: 106 housing units; 2,400 square feet (223 sq m) of ground-floor retail
Project cost: $36.6 million
Financing: Construction/permanent loan, publicly backed loans, bonds, Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity
Mental health features: Substance-abuse recovery center with mental health services, art workshops, communal interior and exterior spaces, natural lighting
Physical health features: Medical clinic for primary care, bicycle parking and programming, nontoxic building materials, stormwater management features
Source: ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative:
https://americas.uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative/healthy-housing/