Pustilnikov files for 2,320 housing units, hotel, office complex, park at AES
by Garth Meyer AES power plant owner Leo Pustilnikov has submitted preliminary applications for two major developments at the site. Because of the timing, opponents may have limited recourse to counter them. The larger project, filed Aug. 10, named “One Redondo” in architectural drawings, proposes 1,832 market rate housing units and 458 affordable units, with a separate hotel, a large office complex and 22 acres of green space between. The structures would all be built on the site where the power plant is today. The main concrete plant building on Harbor Drive would remain, to be used for event space and/or potentially a museum. “2,300 housing units? No way,” said Todd Loewenstein, District One city councilman. “No way.” “One Redondo” joins Pustilnikov’s preliminary application July 20 for a 30-unit, mixed-use development across the street from the power plant, to include the existing, much smaller S.E.A. Lab building. The six-story “Ten21 Harbor” structure, roughly nine times the size of the S.E.A. Lab, would include six affordable units, 7,124 square feet of commercial space and underground parking. Each of these projects fall in the Coastal Zone, in the Coastal Commercial Land…
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