Affordable Housing Is Leading Sustainable Design

LOS ANGELES—AMCAL Multi-Housing is on the brink of gaining LEED Gold certification for the Hollenbeck Terrace Apartments, an affordable senior living community.

LOS ANGELES—Affordable housing seems to be pushing to the forefront of sustainable design. Developer AMCAL Multi-Housing is on the brink of earning a LEED Gold certification on the Hollenbeck Terrace Apartments, a 97-unit affordable housing development for seniors, which was recently completed as the second phase of the Linda Vista Community Hospital adaptive reuse project.

“AMCAL, as a developer, always wants to be ahead of the sustainability spectrum for all of our developments, because it is the right thing to do and because as an owner for the long term, a lot of these sustainability efforts help us with the operations cost,” Paige Horn, the project manager on the Hollenbeck Terrace Apartment project at AMCAL, tells GlobeSt.com. “This was a historic hospital that we created into 97 units for seniors. Because this was a historic property and we were applying for historic tax credits through National Parks Services, we had to meet the Secretary Standards of Renovation. To do that with a building from the 1920s was very difficult, but it was always our intention to get LEED certification.”