Shiny New Rendering of South Park's Onyx Mixed-User

Courtesy of Thomas Cox Architects, feast your eyes on an updated rendering of South Park's upcoming Onyx mixed-user.  Planned by Fashion District landlord Jade Enterprises (Topaz), Onyx will rise on two surface parking lots near the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Flower Street.  The two colorful buildings will stand seven stories, combining to create 410 apartment units and over 30,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space.  Located across the street from Metro's Pico Station, the transit oriented development will contain less than half the amount of the residential and commercial parking normally required by code.  Further emphasizing the pedestrian over the automobile, vehicular access to the project's underground garage shall be routed through an alleyway on the backside of the property.  Although this blighted stretch of Pico Boulevard has spent decades as a pedestrian dead zone, Onyx is just one of several nearby projects currently in the pipeline.  Just across the street, 4D Development & Investment plans to construct a 112-unit apartment building.  One block east, the Arizona-based Wolff Company and Sonny Astani are collaborating on a 640-unit mixed-use development known as G12.

Jade Enterprises' Pico Station Adjacent Apartments

A pair of CRA/LA documents have (re) revealed renderings of Onyx, a mixed-use development planned by Fashion District landlord Jade Enterprises.  The two-building project would rise on surface parking lots southeast of Metro's Pico Station, combining to create 410 apartment units and over 30,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space.  Both building would stand seven-stories, with design work from Downtown-based TCA Architects.  Jade Enterprises has used Onyx's transit adjacency to substantially reduce the project's parking component, containing just 44% of what would normally be required by code.  This section of the South Park neighborhood is in the midst of a grand transformation, with a plethora of new projects emerging and numerous stalled proposals roaring back to life.  One block east on Pico Boulevard, local super-developer Sonny Astani and Arizona-based Wolff Co. plan to break ground on the 640-unit G12 development this year.  One block north of Onyx, the Canadian-based Onni Group has multiple residential projects in the works.  Most notably, China's Oceanwide Real Estate Group recently purchased the massive Fig Central development, which would create hotel, residential and retail space across the street from Staples Center and LA Live.