Palazzo
Environmental Impact Report
– City of Los Angeles
Envicom Corporation in association with Casden Development, Van Tilburg, Banvard, and Soderbergh Architects, and Manaat Phelps and Phillips, prepared an EIR for the Palazzo Westwood project in the Westwood Village area of the City of Los Angeles. The Palazzo Westwood is a mixed-use development comprised of 350 residential apartments (413,490 sq. ft.) and 115,000 square feet of commercial retail uses on a 4.24-acre site and includes amenities such as a health club and gardens for the residents.
The Project is designed in Spanish style architecture, and incorporates the Westwood Village Specific Plan’s concept of a mixed-use pedestrian oriented community. The currently under utilized northeast corner of Westwood Village, will replace the poorly maintained surface parking lots, vacant storefronts and an older apartment building. Local serving commercial retail will occupy the ground floor. The upper floors will include upscale apartments with a health club facility and open space for tenants in the form of courtyards for passive recreation. An extensive underground parking component will span the entire site, including the area underneath Glendon Avenue. The parking will serve the project and will include replacement spaces to compensate for elimination of the surface lots. Key issues addressed in the EIR were aesthetics, traffic, land use consistency, shade/shadow impacts, and historic resources.