Two small 1920s apartment buildings in Westlake could give way for a larger multifamily residential development, according to plans filed yesterday with the City of Los Angeles.

The project site, located at 821-829 S. Grand View Street, sits one block south of MacArthur Park.  Plans call for razing 11 existing residential units to allow for the construction of a six-story, 76-foot-tall building featuring 60 apartments and 33 parking spaces.

Requested entitlements include Transit Oriented Communities affordable housing incentives, for which the project would set aside six residential units for lower-income renters.  The exact incentives are not specified in the project's case filing.

Both existing buildings were purchased in December 2017 by an entity called Sanover Ent, LLC.

The proposed development would rise two blocks south of MacArthur Park, where a handful of similar infill projects are in the planning stages.  

Two blocks northeast, a vacant lot at the intersection of 8th Street and Alvarado Avenue is slated for the construction of a seven-story, 57-unit apartment building with street-fronting retail space.

A block north of the project site at 714-760 S. Grand View Street, developer Abode Communities is planning a five-story, 100-unit affordable housing complex.