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Developer/Builder Buys 5120 Melrose – Between Gramercy and St. Andrews

Curbed LA is reporting that real estate investor Mountain Real Estate Capital (MREC) and developer Harridge Development have purchased a bank owned residential infill property at 5120 Melrose (between Gramercy and St. Andrews). The joint-venture is in the process of re-entitling the property from multi-family to single family lots which they will sell to home builders.

“The acquisition of this project on Melrose Avenue is the exact type of infill opportunity MREC and our developer partners have been seeking and closing in Southern California,” said Peter Fioretti, MREC’s chief executive officer. “Identifying such opportunities is just the first step — the more challenging part is value-add through creative land planning and product design to meet current market demands. That’s why we team up with best-in-class developers and builders like Harridge on projects like this: to identify and create hidden value and assure success.”

The property is about 72,000 square feet – and the case on file with the LA City Planning Department is requesting to create a 49 lot small lot subdivision. The site is the former home to the Cheder Menachem Chabad School for K-12 Grades. The school moved to another location.

One can’t deny that this area just East of Larchmont Village is ripe for redevelopment. This small lot subdivision could be the first of many projects aimed at updating this very convenient Larchmont-adjacent community.

Example of Small Lot Subdivision Courtesy of Modative

CurbedLAParamount-Adjacent Melrose Lot Could Get 49 Little Houses  

ZIMA – Report on 5120 Melrose

Modative – Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance

 

 

 

 

 

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Mary has lived in the Hancock Park area for over 20 years - including homes in Larchmont Village and Windsor Square. Mary has lived in some great places in her life - but none compare to the convenience and majesty of our neighborhood. For Mary, the neighborhood has been a wonderful home to her large, extended family...at one time she had family members living on seven different Hancock Park area blocks! Larchmont Buzz is a labor of love - built to celebrate the neighborhood and to elevate the conversation in the area.

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  1. The City Planning hearing regarding the 5112/5120 Melrose Ave. 49-unit single family lot subdivision will take place May 23, 2012. More discussions of the proposal will continue at the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council’s Land Use Committee meeting Tuesday, Mar. 27, 6:30 p.m., Wilshire United Methodist Church, where this item is on the agenda for the 2nd time. Please see this developer’s other property @ the SW corner of Fountain and Wilcox, surrounding the historic Orchard Gables property. Also please note that the map posted on Larchmont Buzz and in CurbedLA only shows a portion of the property: the actual proposed development spans the entire SE corner of Gramercy Place and Melrose Ave., from Gramercy east to the lot line of the adjoining Conway Studios property and extends south to the middle of the block.

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