A 4,500-square-foot lot at 4127 E. Supreme Court, currently occupied by a billboard slated for demolition, is set to become a six-story apartment building with 13 one-bedroom units after the Los Angeles City Planning Commission signed off on the project Thursday. Two of the apartments will be set aside for very low-income households, according to city planning documents. The site sits on the border between El Sereno and Montecito Heights, part of a wave of new development moving through that stretch of Northeast Los Angeles.
The project, filed with the city by Brett Boston on behalf of applicant Parkman Apartments, LLC, will rise six stories. As reported by Urbanize LA, architecture firm Aero Collective designed the contemporary low-rise structure, which also expands the site's floor area ratio by 41.4% to 2.12:1 and includes a reduced rear yard setback of 17 feet instead of the standard 18. The parcel and project are described in the city planning filing.
What's Actually Getting Built
Once complete, the building will total 9,499 square feet of floor area, with the 13 one-bedroom units ranging from 532 to 562 square feet each, according to the city planning documents. Residents will have access to a rooftop amenity deck. The site is included in the project.
The plans include ground-level vehicle parking, according to the same city filing. The project also addresses parking.
How Density Bonus Law Cleared the Path
The project's path through City Hall ran through density-bonus incentives. The project reserved roughly 15% of the units, two out of 13, for very low-income renters. Those incentives were part of the project's approval process.
The project went through city review before commissioners approved it Thursday.
A Familiar Pattern Along Huntington Drive
This isn't the first time state law has overridden local height limits nearby. A few blocks north at 4221 E. Huntington Drive North, the city planning commission approved a four-story, 22-unit mixed-use building in October 2023 that includes four very low-income units and 437 square feet of commercial space, designed by David Gonzalez Rojas. During that 2023 hearing, commissioners noted that state density bonus law left them no legal authority to reject the project despite concerns raised about neighborhood gentrification, according to Urbanize LA.
The surrounding corridor has seen its share of friction over rapid residential growth. Grassroots group El Sereno Neighbors gathered more than 1,100 signatures this spring protesting unpermitted demolition and safety hazards at SoLa Impact's 111-unit apartment site at 5100 E. Huntington Drive, a dispute that sparked demonstrations outside Councilmember Ysabel Jurado's office over code enforcement and housing approvals. Other infill projects have followed a similar pattern nearby, including a proposal revealed in August 2026, filed in December 2025 by Randolph 6 LP, with an executive at 4Site Real Estate identified as the applicant contact, to build six three-story small-lot homes on a sloping vacant site at 3724 N. Randolph Avenue near Huntington Drive.
Warren Techentin Architecture designed the Randolph Avenue small-lot homes. The project illustrates how affordable housing incentives are shaping what gets built on Eastside Los Angeles lots that once sat vacant or underused, even as some residents continue to push back on the pace and scale of the change.
