by Alex the Sea Turtle
This block of North Hayworth is mostly apartment buildings and senior assisted living homes from the 60’s and 70’s. they are primarily your classic ding bat apartment buildings. 643 North Hayworth Avenue is a small Spanish revival home from 1924 with an overgrown front yard with an old car covered in friendly liberal bumper stickers. The home is 1,600 sq foot with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
The home was sold in March of 2007 for aprox 860,000. This home sits about 4 lots south of Melrose. This stretch of Melrose is home to Paul Frank, Johnny Cupcakes and many other hip new expensive retail ventures.
Before the Neighbor Council Land Use committee is a proposal to raze this property and replace it with 3 single family homes, and a duplex. The builder would like to have variations to build past the normal height restrictions to 35 feet and reduce the front set back to 12 feet, I think current code is 15.
While I hate to see LA loose architectural history, in cases like these where these homes are on streets that no longer have any relation to them I concede this is probably a nice change.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Miss Teresa // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:26 am
This builder has very interesting ideas about architecture and neighborhoods, and the project will be built under the City’s new “Small Lot Subdivision” law, which allows the lots to be subdivided for individual ownership, rather than having condos. Each building will be a town home.
My duplex is town home style, and it is a great way to make apartment living feel like you’re in a house. I think the small lot subdivisions are perfect for mid-rise zoning near R1 streets. They are not as boxy and dense as most new construction.
2 alex the sea turtle // Jun 19, 2008 at 11:11 am
Miss Teressa if you have any links to images of what he has planned I would be very interested to see them. I had a feeling this was a small lot division that was being preposed.
I am guessing he stands to make a lot of money. 800k or so for the lot and house, 800k to develop a total of 5 homes sell each one for atleast 800k. You end up way ahead!
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