AXIS’ LATEST AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT – WEINGART TOWER – BREAKS-GROUND, AND IS FEATURED IN THE LA TIMES
September 29, 2021
Los Angeles Affordable Housing Architects AXIS Architecture + Design are proudly project architects on development
In the very near future, AXIS will be making some exciting announcements about our multi-family and affordable housing practices. In the meantime, we’re extremely proud to announce that our latest affordable housing project – Weingart Tower – celebrated its ground-breaking yesterday, and was featured on the front page of the L.A. Times’ California section this morning.
The event was attended by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Weingart Chief Executive Kevin Murray, Jim Schmid, Founder and CEO of Chelsea Investment Corp., Emilio Salas, Los Angeles County Development Authority Executive Director, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles CEO Doug Guthrie, as well as representatives from funding stakeholders across Los Angeles and Southern California.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and other dignitaries open the ground-breaking ceremony for the Weingart Towers, an affordable housing project designed by affordable housing architects AXIS.
A collaboration between the Weingart Center, a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) non-profit agency that provides supportive services to homeless individuals, and Chelsea Investment Corporation, one of the nation’s leading developers of affordable housing, the project will feature 228 studio apartments, forty-seven one-bedroom apartments, and three one-bedroom apartments for fulltime onsite managers. With a commitment to sustainable and eco-friendly design, the project will achieve a Green Point Gold Certification at a minimum.
Executives from Los Angeles’ affordable housing industry break-ground on the Weingart Tower, an affordable housing initiative by California affordable housing architect AXIS.
In collaboration with Joseph Wong Design Architects, AXIS’s design for the building creates a welcoming community destination that redefines how shelter and community service spaces look and feel. As part of a larger community plan to respectfully uplift L.A.’s Skid Row neighborhood with improved access to transit, bike paths and community-run retail spaces, the Weingart Tower’s design is envisioned to be a positive design catalyst in the local community while at the same time serving as a buffer for the neighborhood from nearby gentrifying development.
Members of the AXIS Los Angeles studio and Los Angeles-based affordable housing partners at the ground-breaking ceremony of Weingart Tower.
Construction expertise will be provided by Emmerson Construction as manager-at-risk, along with Swinerton Builders and other key contractors. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2023.
Visit https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-28/construction-begins-on-homeless-housing-highrise-in-skid-row for the L.A. Times article.
Watch the AXIS Blog for our full and formal capture of the ground-breaking event, as well as our detailed overview of our design program for the Weingart Tower.
Visit the Weingart Tower project in our Affordable Housing portfolio, here.