A four-story apartment building at 327 N. Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro is nearing completion, marking the first visible sign of a redevelopment effort that could eventually triple the amount of housing near the Port of Los Angeles. The project, known as 327 Harbor, will bring 47 affordable apartments to a neighborhood where the aging Rancho San Pedro public housing complex has stood since the 1940s.
Construction on the building began roughly a year and a half before publication, according to Urbanize LA, which reported the project's progress. The outlet describes the building as clad in white and blue stucco and designed by KFA Architecture, with the project serving as the first off-site phase of a multi-year effort to redevelop and revitalize Rancho San Pedro, according to hacla.org.
The building will include 12 one-bedroom, 23 two-bedroom and 12 three-bedroom apartments, per the same hacla.org announcement. It's being delivered by the One San Pedro Collaborative, a joint venture between Richman Group, National CORE, Century Housing and the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, as reported by Urbanize LA.
Replacement Housing for an Aging Complex
The new building is intended to provide replacement housing for residents of the larger public housing complex as it gets redeveloped in phases, Urbanize LA reports. Planned amenities include a community room, a landscaped courtyard with seating, a children's play area, a fitness room and supportive service offices, according to nationalcore.org.
The project is expected to be all-electric with solar panels and is anticipated to achieve LEED Gold certification. Financing includes loans and equity investment from Wells Fargo Bank along with an Infill and Infrastructure Grant from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the hacla.org announcement notes. The project is estimated to cost nearly $37.3 million, according to a report from la.urbanize.city on HACLA's commission approvals.
Sources differ on exactly which households will qualify. One hacla.org-linked nationalcore.org page describes apartments for individuals and families earning between 30% and 80% of the area median income, while la.urbanize.city's report on the HACLA sign-off describes a mix of units priced for households earning between 30% and 60% of area median income. Residents are expected to move into the new property in early 2027, according to hacla.org.
A Redevelopment Years in the Making
The broader Rancho San Pedro redevelopment calls for razing and rebuilding the 1940s-era public housing complex over what hacla.org describes as a roughly 14-to-20-year period, commencing as early as 2024 and ending as early as 2037. A separate report from presstelegram.com describes the major portion of the project as expected to take 10 to 15 years altogether to finish, subject to funding availability.
The scale of the plan also varies by source. hacla.org describes the proposal as including upward of 1,600 residential units, with an estimated 1,041 reserved for households earning no more than the moderate-income level — more than tripling the 478 units that exist today. The Press-Telegram report instead describes up to 1,600 rental and ownership units across all affordability levels, while Urbanize LA's coverage of the groundbreaking also cites up to 1,553 homes. More than 1,000 of the planned units are slated to be deed-restricted affordable housing, Urbanize LA reports.
hacla.org breaks the plan into three phases: an initial phase between 2024 and 2030 that would replace 157 existing homes with 375 housing units, neighborhood-serving uses and two public parks; a second phase between 2031 and 2035 that would replace 144 existing units with 600 new homes along with retail and additional neighborhood-serving uses and parks; and a final phase between 2034 and 2037 that would replace 178 homes with 625 new residences, also including neighborhood-serving uses and retail.
Commercial Space and Open Space Planned
Beyond housing, hacla.org's announcement describes roughly 85,000 square feet of community services and amenities alongside 45,000 square feet of local-serving commercial space proposed for the full build-out. Urbanize LA cites 130,000 square feet of commercial uses and five acres of open space and parks as part of the One San Pedro Collaborative plan.
An entitlement application filed with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning marked the latest formal step toward the larger redevelopment, according to hacla.org. Elsewhere in the region, Century Villages at Cabrillo in Long Beach could eventually add 750 homes to its 27-acre property, expanding its total affordable housing stock to 1,380 units, per the same la.urbanize.city report on HACLA's commission approvals — an indication of how the San Pedro project fits into a wider pattern of large-scale affordable housing redevelopment along the harbor.
