Veil lifts for residential-retail development at 3223 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica

This post was written by Steven Sharp and published on April 4, 2024 on la.urbanize.city

53 apartments at Wilshire and Centinela

In Mid-City Santa Monica, the wrapping is starting to come off of a new mixed-use apartment complex at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Centinela Avenue.

The project from Los Angeles-based developer Cypress Equity Investments, which replaced an Aahs! store at 3223 Wilshire Boulevard, consists of a four-story building that will feature 53 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments above 5,800 square feet of ground-floor commercial space when completed. Plans also call for a 109-car subterranean parking garage.

The City of Santa Monica has conditions its approval of the project to require that four of the apartments be set aside for rent as affordable housing.

Pyatok is designing 3223 Wilshire, which is portrayed in renderings as a contemporary low-rise structure. Plans show a rooftop amenity deck overlooking the intersection of Wilshire and Centinela.

DFH Architects is serving as architect of record.

Integrare Group is serving as the project’s general contractor.

Cypress Equity Investments, based in the neighboring Brentwood neighborhood, is behind a number of similar mixed-use projects across the City of Santa Monica, as well as planned or under construction developments in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Echo Park and Pico-Union.