Central/ Lexington
Type Mixed-use, 540 live/work units
Location Glendale, California
Size 620,000 square feet
Status Project
Description
The Project Site was located in the central portion of the City of Glendale. The Project Site consisted of two parcels (Parcels A and B) and two addresses, totaling approximately 3.18 acres combined. The Project Site was at 201 West Lexington Drive and 418 N. Central Avenue within the Orange Central District of the Downtown Specific Plan.
Vision
The Project applicant proposed developing a live-work community in the downtown area of the City of Glendale. The Project would have consisted of four multistory buildings (Buildings A, B, C, and D) up to 8 stories high. The Project Site would have included extensive ground-level open space, including a central courtyard and pedestrian paseos that would have bisected the Project Site in all four directions and divided the Project Site into roughly four quads. Each of the Project’s Buildings would have been located in one of the four quads.
Building A was an existing structure located in the southeastern portion of the site that was planned to be adapted for reuse and incorporated into the Project, while Buildings B, C, and D would have been newly constructed. Combined, the four buildings would have contained approximately 540 live/work units and 4,200 square feet of commercial space. The live/work area would have totaled approximately 618,460 square feet (including amenities), and the live/work units would have included a combination of studios, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, and loft floor plans.
The commercial space was planned within Building B and was intended to accommodate retail banking, specifically with the intent to house a Citibank retail branch, as Citibank would have vacated its existing on-site space during demolition and construction of the Project buildings. Two drive-thru bank automated teller machines (ATMs), to replace the existing drive-through ATMs, were also planned in Building B.
There would have been 113,100 square feet of common and private open space, consisting of a public ground-level central courtyard and pedestrian paseos; resident common open space such as rooftop parks, pools, and gardens; and private balconies for each live/work unit.