North Hills set for big changes with ‘upscale’ apartments at Green Arrow Nursery site
Residents on one stretch of Sepulveda Boulevard in North Hills will be getting hundreds of new neighbors in a few years, from a four- building apartment complex at the shuttered Green Arrow Nursery and Hardware site. The Los Angeles City Council this week signed off on the project at 8811 Sepulveda Blvd. The development at the 4.5-acre site is slated to include up to 364 residential units, accompanied by parking spaces for 557 cars and 405 bicycles. On the side facing Langdon Avenue Elementary School , the buildings will be between two- and three-stories tall, while the apartments will rise to six floors on the Sepulveda Boulevard side . The project will be a noticeable addition to this area of North Hills and could lead to more interest by investors in the neighborhood, according to Art Simonian, whose company, Metro Investments, is the developer. While the area is not exactly a big draw for real estate investors , it shows promise, especially with new retail centers and developmen...