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12/05/16
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The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has unanimously approved plans for the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood. Slated for opening in early 2019, the revolutionary new campus will serve as the new administrative headquarters for the Center, and include up to 100 units of affordable housing for seniors, 100 beds for homeless youth, new senior and youth centers, up to 35 units of permanent supportive housing for young people, and ground floor retail space.
Architecture firm KFA, in collaboration with design firm Leong Leong, is the architect for the new campus project, located off Santa Monica Blvd at 1118 N. McCadden Place. The project will tie together the existing center, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, with the new project, creating a large campus. Currently, The Village includes two theatres, two gallery spaces, offices for AIDS/LifeCycle, as well as community meeting space.
The design reinforces the mosaic of services and programs that will be offered at the campus. The program components are knit together through a series of interior and exterior courtyards and plazas, taking full advantage of the outdoor environment of Southern California. The bold glass forms unfold at the corner, creating an open and confident architecture that will be a symbol of pride for not only the LGBT community but for the greater community of Los Angeles.
The new campus will also free up the much needed space at the current McDonald/Wright building to be entirely dedicated to medical and mental health care, addiction recovery services, HIV/STD testing and treatment, and more.
The project now moves on for approval by the full Los Angeles City Council.
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