Alchemy Planning + Land Use

01/09/2022

Here is a sampling of some of Alchemy’s multifamily and mixed-used projects that received entitlement approvals in 2021! Grateful to all clients, consultants, and agency staff that were a part of these projects, and looking forward to more housing production in 2022!

12/21/2020

As 2020 winds to a close, I would like to thank all the staff for your tireless work throughout this challenging year to plan for and address the City’s housing needs! Alchemy is proud to have collaborated with City staff on approvals for 421 units of housing in 2020, including 43 units of low-income housing, with an additional 765 units currently under review, and 426 units in the pre-submittal design phase. Looking forward to working with you to create more homes in 2021! Here is a sampling of approved projects by: .architects

04/10/2020

Alchemy was proud to assist in obtaining Site Plan Review and AB 2162 Supportive Housing Project streamlining approvals for this 64-unit project with on-site supportive services in Watts, which City Council voted to award $10.2 million in financing this week. Congrats to and thank you to Eric Claros, Steve Garcia, and Connie Chauv of LA City Planning for a speedy approval of 69 days from application to determination!

https://urbanize.la/post/la-city-council-approves-funding-supportive-housing-watts-and-westwood?fbclid=IwAR2NWMXXjI79sgwh1i50hhe2nSakXg7Mgi78z118ll2KiCybOjkyatRt-2o

09/28/2018

San Pedro City Hall tonight, presenting to the Joint San Pedro Neighborhood Councils Planning and Land Use Committee.

09/14/2018

Alchemy is proud to have represented this project, which received approval from the Los Angeles City Planning Commission this morning!

The development will create five new micro-units, including one Very Low Income affordable unit, while also maintaining the existing rent-stabilized four-unit apartment building on the site, allowing for densification without displacement of any existing residents.

The project will utilize modular concrete construction with no on-site parking, significantly reducing project costs and construction timeline. We hope this will serve as a model for future lower-cost, high-quality infill development!

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission is scheduled to consider a proposal a Boyle Heights-based real estate firm to construct a small apartment building near Hollenbeck Park.The project, which comes from Toledo Capital Development, entails a property at 731-733 S. Boyle Avenue. Plans call for the...

08/19/2017

Vibrant nightlife is the hallmark of all great international cities. Support SB384 to allow local California communities to set their own nightlife regulations and to give LA the opportunity to join NYC, Paris and Berlin in developing a nightlife culture reflective of our status as the crossroads capital of the eastern and western hemispheres and greatest artistic center the world has ever seen! "There is no night life in Spain," but there could be in LA!

The LOCAL Act would allow communities to individually decide whether to extend alcohol sales passed 2 a.m.

08/18/2017

https://twitter.com/alchemyplanning/status/898374450386616321

“State Senator Scott Weiner and Assemblymember Richard Bloom speaking to AHLA on solutions to housing crisis. ”

08/01/2017

Congrats to Little Tokyo Service Center on the groundbreaking of this awesome new community recreation center near 2nd and Los Angeles Streets!

DTLA - In 1994, the Little Tokyo Service Center began an effort to raise money for a multi-purpose facility that would serve as a sports and community center for the

06/23/2017

Grand opening of 'The Bend' live-work complex in Frogtown, developed by UCLA Urban Planning alum Robert DeForest, including 20% affordable units.

06/16/2017

At the Abundant Housing LA and Southern California Association for Nonprofit Housing panel on the future of the YIMBY movement in LA County.

06/14/2017

Urban planners choose their favorite buildings in LA:
http://archinect.com/features/article/150011333/9-urban-planners-tell-us-their-favorite-buildings-in-los-angeles

It has become common practice for architects to be asked what their favorite buildings are. After all, it is the obvious question. That being said, the majority of people walking into a building aren’t architects and they certainly have something to say on the matter! In that vein, we have...

06/14/2017

2017 AIA-LA Residential Design Award Winners:
https://la.curbed.com/2017/6/8/15628672/aia-los-angeles-2017-design-awards-residential

This is the best residential architecture in Los Angeles, as judged by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects.