The Anita May Rosenstein Campus will bring housing for homeless LGBTQ youth to Hollywood, among other services.

LOS ANGELES—The Planning Commission has voted unanimously to approve The Anita May Rosenstein Campus, a new campus at the LGBT Center in Hollywood. The new project will bring 100 beds for homeless youth and 35 affordable housing units to the Hollywood market, along with senior and youth centers and ground floor retail space. The project is slated to open in 2019, and architecture firms KFA and Leong Leong will design the property, which is located at 1118 N. McCadden Place in Hollywood.

“This project was not only not difficult to get approved, it unanimously passed through several approvals including by the Planning Commission, the Planning and Land Use Management Committee and the Los Angeles City Council,” Barbara Flammang, principal and co-founder of KFA Architects. “Additionally, the project required an EIR and a General Plan Amendment to the Hollywood Community Plan, and the City was very helpful in expediting this process quickly and efficiently. The EIR was submitted in March 2016 and the entitlement process was finished by December 9th including obtaining Mayor Garcetti's signature on the McCadden Campus Ordinance.”

The Anita May Rosenstein Campus will bring valuable amenities to the market, especially for LGBTQ youth who are disproportionately homeless. This is likely one of the reasons why the Planning Commission unanimously approved the site. “The project will tie together the existing, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, with the new project, creating a larger campus with many more amenities for the residents including The Village two theatres, gallery spaces, offices for AIDS/LifeCycle, as well as community meeting space,” adds Flammang.

The campus will feature a network of interior and exterior courtyards that will allow the LGBT Center to provide services to the community. It will also free up space for the current McDonald/Wright building for medical and mental health care, addiction recovery services and HIV/STD testing and treatment. “The Anita May Rosenstein Campus is an unprecedented project for the LGBT community and the City of Los Angeles,” Dominic Leong, a partner at Leong Leong, tells GlobeSt.com. “It is a symbol and a platform for social progress forged by the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and also comes at a moment when this progress must be relentlessly supported and sustained. We see this as a new type of urban campus that proactively interfaces with the city while serving as a sanctuary for diversity. The design concept takes the complex program along with its multiplicity of users and creates moments of introversion with internal courtyards, and moments of extroversion to connect the community back to the city with a new plaza. The architecture becomes a mosaic of identities rather than a singular iconic gesture.”

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