DTLA Development Heads to Skid Row

Catalina Lofts is at the edge of Skid Row.

LOS ANGELES—The Downtown L.A. development boom is heading to Skid Row. Statewide Acquisition Corp. is redeveloping the former Catalina Swimwear manufacturing facility into a 78-unit live/work loft building. The Catalina Lofts, as the property is called, is at the edge of Skid Row and adjacent to tents communities. Omgivning is designing the project, and plans to deliver the property late next year.

“This project is actually on the edge of Skid Row and the Toy District,” Karin Liljegren, founder of Omgivning, tells GlobeSt.com. “It’s a difficult location because it is on the edge of one neighborhood that has the sidewalks lined with tents and homeless encampments and the other neighborhood has daytime wholesalers and is vacant at night.”