Commuters rolling past Wilshire/Western have a fresh construction update to rubberneck at: Jamison Services’ eight-story Koreatown apartment building has been unwrapped, with its framing and new façade now fully visible just west of the Metro stop. Marketed as Hudson, the complex is set to deliver 230 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, a compact ground-floor retail bay and a slate of resident amenities. With the exterior now on display, leasing materials and marketing pages have started popping up as the project heads into its finishing phase.
According to Urbanize LA, the building sits on Jamison’s lot at 626–634 St. Andrews Place and stacks roughly 230 units over about 44,237 square feet, plus roughly 800 square feet of street-level retail. The outlet reports that the project includes a 133-space garage, with 50 of those stalls reserved for the neighboring Wilshire Professional Building, and that the development was entitled through the city’s Transit Oriented Communities incentives, which require 23 extremely low-income apartments. Urbanize notes that construction has now reached the “unwrapped” stage just west of the Wilshire/Western station, firmly situating the project in the transit-oriented heart of the Wilshire corridor.
Design and amenities
Designed by MVE + Partners, the podium-style building leans into a contemporary look that is intended to contrast with the neighboring 1920s Art Deco Wilshire Professional Building while still matching its overall scale. MVE’s project materials outline a street-facing pool courtyard and a northwest-facing rooftop terrace, along with shared spaces that include co-working areas, a fitness center and a screening room. The architecture uses floor-to-ceiling glazing and articulated massing in an effort to pull in light and views for the smaller unit types clustered near the transit hub.
Jamison’s footprint in Koreatown
Jamison Services has been one of Koreatown’s busiest players, assembling parcels and filing a series of projects along the Wilshire corridor over the past decade. The Real Deal has documented the firm’s long-running interest in the St. Andrews block, noting earlier 2012 plans for a smaller seven-story version of the project and later approvals for a denser concept. That paper trail, together with the company’s recent push into adaptive-reuse proposals nearby, helps explain Jamison’s rapid development tempo in K-town.
Leasing and next steps
The building is being marketed as Hudson, and the project’s leasing site lists 640 St. Andrews Place with contact information and amenity highlights, a pretty clear sign Jamison is gearing up to field inquiries as finishes go in. Hudson presents the property as active for leasing interest, while public reports place construction in its final phases. With Transit Oriented Communities entitlements secured, the project is set to add a small tranche of extremely low-income units to a rapidly changing stretch of the Wilshire corridor, and neighbors will soon find out how the new ground-floor retail and reserved parking play with the daily bustle around the Wilshire/Western stop.
