Skyscrapers for seniors scheduled to sprout over Warner Center

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Set us as preferred A $2-billion high-rise affordable housing complex is set to change the skyline of Warner Center and set a new precedent for assisted senior living in Los Angeles.Senior housing provider Wellpointe unveiled plans for Viva L.A.at Warner Center, a cluster of four skyscrapers with 3,192 units to rise near the new Los Angeles Rams Village being built in the San Fernando Valley community.

The project has the backing of Mayor Karen Bass and local City Councilmember Bob Blumenfeld, and Wellpointe expects to start construction by the end of next year.Viva is the largest affordable housing project created under Bass’ Executive Directive 1, a 2022 order to speed up the city approval process for 100% affordable developments intended to reduce homelessness.

Viva’s towers, ranging from 34 to 42 stories, will easily be the tallest in Warner Center, a mixed-use community with offices, housing and stores created in the 1970s on the site of movie mogul Harry Warner’s horse ranch that was intended to be a “downtown” for the San Fernando Valley.Warner Center is the commercial hub of Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles neighborhood of more than 70,000 people.

Viva will be Wellpointe’s largest development and a departure from its typical pattern of creating complexes of single-family homes in suburban settings in California cities such as Irvine and Fresno, where Wellpointe is based, Chief Executive George Kutnerian said.Wellpointe has nine senior housing complexes in the San Fernando Valley, but it has had difficulty acquiring enough single-family homes in the area to significantly expand its presence, he said.“That led us to create this vertical concept, which takes the core ingredients that we believe make our single-family model special, and we have essentially urbanized that in a vertical format,” he said.A cor...