A five-acre property, formerly the home of View Park Community Hospital in the Baldwin Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, will soon undergo a major change. Developer Thrive Living has announced plans to reimagine the site on W. Coliseum Street as a mixed-use apartment project with a Costco store on the ground floor.

AO has been procured as the designer of the development, which is a proposed six-story building atop a basement parking garage featuring community amenities that include five courtyards, a rooftop pool, basketball courts and a fitness area. According to Urbanize, the ground floor Costco is expected to create up to 400 jobs.

A Thrive Living news release states the company is focused on addressing the housing affordability crisis in Los Angeles, and to that end, the planned 800-unit project will include 184 apartments as low-income affordable and the remaining market-rate units will be non-subsidized affordable and workforce housing.

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