Any project on or near Lincoln Blvd should get some sort of priority funding because, for the most part, that street is a real eye-sore. Imagine my delight when I recently walked past the corner of Broadway and Lincoln to discover that two old structures are slated to come down. I'd heard of those two mixed-use buildings that will eventually rise in the place of an old car shop and a mattress store but I just assumed that they were on hold indefinitely like every other housing project in California right now.After doing some research, it seems that this workforce housing project has seen quite a bit of back and force with the city as preservationists fought to save the last remaining Quonset hut in Santa Monica. Ultimately, NMS and Killefer Flammang agreed to redesign the building to preserve the hut which will be slightly moved to the corner of 9th and Broadway.
Since this is an affordable housing project, NMS will rely on public funding to finance the project. According to these documents, it seems that they were granted funding for this project, along with the neighboring "Lincoln Walk"project, late last summer. This hopefully means that this project is ready to break ground very soon. Not only would it be nice to see an upgrade of yet another corner in the city but this might also be the first major project to break ground in quite a while.
Photo Credit: Killefer Flemming Architects
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