Corner Commercial-Mixed Use Rejuvenation prototype. The
chiropractic medical tenant improvement was completed in time
for the physician to move in according to schedule. Modulations
in fenestration present attractive proportions to the eye while
reflecting the optimal layout for the interior suite
plan.
Four segments of work, fees, and time were defined by the four
separate building permit applications: Driveway revision.
Parking lot restriping. Change of Use from garage to commercial
office. Medical office tenant improvement
Colfax-Magnolia Corner Commercial Center Development
Renovation (with pre-existing non-conforming use) had
difficulty complying with current parking requirements. Current
landscape requirements (5% of total lot area and sprinklers)
were not subject to being "grandfathered" along with the
non-conforming separation between first floor commercial
occupancy and second floor mixed use of office and apartment
occupancies.
To maximize the site's parking for the future build-out of an
existing but unused garage - intended structure, the existing
parking layout was scrutenized down to the inch for compliance
with Building and Safety code. Driveway revision negotiations
with the LA Department of Transportation revealed a wide
variance between what was stipulated and the actual dimension
of the driveway as determined actually by the Building and
Safety inspector. Mixed messages from the LA DOT held the
project's final plans in the sway. The decision to realize the
site's unused structure for the highest and best use came only
after the revised driveway was actually completed. The lesson
learned here was that the DOT does not follow through their
planning dictates to construction.
Sensing that the building originally built for garage occupancy
had a higher and better use but unsure what the specific tenant
improvement occupancy was, Architect Lindblad led the project
team to obtain a change of use from car parking to medical. The
just-approved permit of site parking restriping and landscape
revision underwent yet another round of revisions to accomodate
the extra parking required by the medical use. Taking advantage
of tandem parking allowed by the upper floor apartment
complement in the mixed use yield the requisite additional
surcharge of parking.
Garage Parking is transformed to Clinic
(Work-in-Progress) Parapet is added to a 850 square-foot building housing a medical tenant improvement.
A certain impetus to the overall Commercial-Mixed Use
revamping was the opening of the close-by North
Hollywood-Downtown Los Angeles metrolink, which in turn, is
spurring a larger 'reinvention' of North Hollywood's historic
business district - evidenced by a proposed regional commercial
complex at Lankershim and Magnolia Boulevards.
Adapting the building originally built as a pair of abutting double
car garages involved removing a common wall and floor slab
leveling, a storefriont window design and stucco parapet which
would best exemplify the chiropractic use of the space. The
exam spaces fit nicely within the overall length of the existing
structure.
High Tech Diagnostics
This pioneering medical center offers residents of the West
San Fernando Valley and Ventura County one of the first
installations of Magnetic Resonating Imaging (MRI), the
state-of-the-art non-evasive diagnostic tool.
Inside the new offices of Lindblad Architects
Aspen Center Outpatient Surgery Center & MRI Facility
St. Jane's Church Interior Renovation
Baldwin Park Condominiums
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