Jamison Clears Hurdle for Dual Apartment Towers in Koreatown

Jamison Services has moved ahead with plans to build two 23-story apartment buildings in Koreatown.

The Koreatown-based developer led by Jaime Lee won approval from the Los Angeles Planning Commission to construct the dual highrises with 760 apartments at 3600 Wilshire Boulevard, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. They would replace a parking garage behind an office tower.

The project, proposed eight years ago, calls for two buildings containing 760 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments on the north side of 7th Street, between Harvard Boulevard and Kingsley Drive.

The buildings would contain 6,400 square feet of ground-floor shops, and parking for nearly 1,300 cars.

The side-by-side towers, designed by Chicago-based Perkins&Will, would each rise 269 feet, their floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors covered by rows of external balconies, according to a rendering.

Each building would have a rooftop pool, with a shared fitness center and a landscaped plaza with pools down below.

Construction would take two years, but a ground-breaking date was not disclosed.

The proposed apartments look like another Jamison Services project down the street at 3470 Wilshire Boulevard, where another parking garage behind an office tower would be replaced by residential highrises.

Jamison has also built a pair of apartment towers along the north side of the street at 3545 Wilshire, and is now building a hotel across Harvard Boulevard from the 3600 Wilshire site, according to Urbanize.

Jamison Services, founded in 2013, is a unit of Jamison Properties. It has amassed more than $3 billion worth of real estate, according to Lee’s LinkedIn page. It owns 5,500 apartments in Los Angeles, with 11,000 more in the pipeline.

— Dana Bartholomew