LOS ANGELES — 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 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 development. The project will tie together The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, creating one large campus. Currently, The Village includes two theaters, two gallery spaces, offices for AIDS/LifeCycle and community meeting space.
The campus expansion will also free up space at the Center’s McDonald/Wright building, which can then be fully dedicated to medical and mental health care, addiction recovery services, HIV/STD testing and treatment and other medical services.
The project will now seek approval from the Los Angeles City Council.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center was founded in 1969 and claims to serve more people in the LGBT community than any other organization in the world.