New High-Rise Will House Homeless People On L.A’s Skid Row

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New High-Rise Will House Homeless People On L.A’s Skid Row

Construction started on Tuesday to build a new 19-story homeless housing which will be made to reshape a corner of skid row.

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The 278-unit Weingart Tower will take over a old parking lot at 555 S. Crocker St., not to far from the Weingart Center. The building is expected to open in December 2023.

Weingart Tower will be the first stage of a project that will eventually have 382 units, looking over Weingart’s existing facility, in the 11-story former El Rey Hotel, which is already more than twice as tall as the other buildings around it.

The stunning glass high-rise will “improve the neighborhood through architecture,” Weingart Chief Executive Kevin Murray stated in announcing the conceptual plan by Joseph Wong Design Associates in a 2017 interview.

“One of the things we asked the architect is we don’t want it to look like a housing project,” Murray, a former state senator, shared “We want it to look like one of these other first-class downtown apartments.”

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The project has already recieved $32 million from Proposition HHH which was approved by voters back in 2016.

Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke out about the new project, “The Weingart project symbolizes the city of belonging” that’s accessible to all individuals,” Garcetti shared.

“We love seeing downtown revitalized over the last two decades,” the mayor said. But he added, “You shouldn’t have to be rich to enjoy it, you shouldn’t have had a lucky life to enjoy that.”

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