NoHo Commons Construction Starts

The development, adjacent to the Lankershim Boulevard MTA subway station, will bring 716 units of rental housing, along with 158,000 sf of retail with live/work space and 200,000 sf of office space to a 23-acre, multi-block site. The 716 housing units will include 143 designated as affordable, and the site will include seven acres dedicated to the Los Angeles Unified School District for a high school. The project will surround the MTA subway station to the south and the east, with the retail fronting the street and the housing above. Jerry Snyder, founding partner of JH Snyder Co., says the development will create an "urban lifestyle" in North Hollywood, enabling residents of the new housing to use public transportation and to walk to and from shops and restaurants. JH Snyder Partner Cliff Goldstein adds that the project will create a "24-hour city environment" in North Hollywood.

Bounded by Lankershim Boulevard to the east, Weddington Street to the south and Cumpston Street to the north, NoHo Commons is being developed in three phases. The first phase consists of 438 apartments, of which 115 are affordable units, on the project area just east of the subway station between Cumpston Street and Chandler Boulevard. Phase two will consist of 278 loft-style apartments, of which 28 are affordable units, built over 80,000 sf of ground-floor retail along Lankershim Boulevard at Chandler Boulevard. This phase will also include some live/work space. The final phase will bring 78,000 sf of ground-floor retail along with 200,000 sf of office space to the remaining Lankershim Boulevard frontage and along Weddington Street.

NoHo Commons is designed by VanTilburg, Banvard and Soderberg of Santa Monica, acclaimed for its urban multifamily housing designs. Project construction will be led by Hill Contracting Group as general contractors, with completion scheduled for mid-2005.