{"id":1004095871,"date":"2014-05-02T06:52:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=258400"},"modified":"2022-12-07T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:24:31","slug":"local-construct-breaks-ground-on-innovative-housing-concept-in-echo-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/local-construct-breaks-ground-on-innovative-housing-concept-in-echo-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Construct Breaks Ground on Innovative Housing Concept in Echo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alex Girda, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

A new housing project in Los Angeles\u2019 Echo Park recently held a ground-breaking event, celebrating the innovative concept being introduced by the developer. Los Angeles-based Local Construct has started work on its Blackbirds micro-neighborhood. The community will be located on a site that formerly housed five rundown cottages in Echo Park.<\/p>\n

One of the most important id\"\"<\/a>eas on which the project is based upon is coming up with a walkable community focus, rather than on a car focus, which the developer believes is the current predominant trend in development in Los Angeles. The small lot urban infill development project aims to provide 18 new residential units situated in a heavily landscaped area. Blackbirds will become more than an average small lot multifamily infill project. It will try to introduce a new housing prototype in one of the city\u2019s fastest growing neighborhoods. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a press statement announcing the groundbreaking of Blackbirds, the community is the result of Barbara Bestor\u2019s design. The units will feature pitched roofs that reference the rooflines of the area, creating an effect of \u201cstealth density,\u201d according to the architect Bestor. As previously mentioned, the multifamily project will not focus on the parking component, straying from the usual characteristics of residential development in the city, and of the West Coast which are mostly informed by the East Coast model.<\/p>\n

Local Construct currently has projects underway in Boise, Idaho, and Eagle Rock, all of them based on the build smaller, build smarter mantra. The purpose is to provide modern, comfortable homes for the urban dweller employing high architecture, smart use of land and a new overall housing typology focused on the community, not on the units.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of\u00a0blackbirdsla.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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