{"id":234094,"date":"2026-03-24T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234094\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:29:08","slug":"new-look-for-proposed-senior-housing-at-80-s-oakland-ave-in-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234094\/","title":{"rendered":"New look for proposed senior housing at 80 S. Oakland Ave. in Pasadena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly five years of quiet, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/post\/pasadena-belmont-village\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plans for senior housing <\/a>on the parking lot of First Church of Christ, Scientist in <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanize.city\/la\/neighborhood\/pasadena\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasadena<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofpasadena.net\/commissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026-03-24-Design-Commission-4A-80-S.-Oakland-Ave_ATTCH-A-B.pdf?v=1773943177264\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back before the Pasadena Design Commission.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-and-caption\">\n<a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1140w\/public\/2026-03\/80%20oakland%202026%204.jpg?itok=Kl2c6F_B\" rel=\"article-image-set nofollow noopener\" title=\"Steinbert Hart\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-950w article-inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/80 oakland 2026 4.jpg\" width=\"950\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPort-cochere elevationSteinbert Hart<\/p>\n<p>The project from <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/tags\/belmont-village\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belmont Village<\/a>, planned at 80 S. Oakland Avenue, calls for the construction of a five-story building featuring 145 studio, one-, and two-bedroom dwellings, as well as amenities and a 133-car garage for the project and adjacent church. That represents an increase in density from the 131 homes originally proposed for the site.<\/p>\n<p>The larger scale also comes with a new architect. <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/tags\/steinberg-hart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steinberg Hart <\/a>is designing the revised project, replacing the original work by the firm then known as <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanize.city\/la\/tags\/gonzalez-goodale-architects\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GGA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A staff report recommends conditional approval of the updated design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-and-caption\">\n<a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1140w\/public\/2021-09\/80%20oakland%20avenue%20pasadena%20map.JPG?itok=AjKc6Tni\" rel=\"article-image-set nofollow noopener\" title=\"Google Maps\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-950w article-inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/80 oakland avenue pasadena map.JPG\" width=\"950\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nProposed site of Belmont Village project in PasadenaGoogle Maps<\/p>\n<p>Belmont Village, based out of Houston, Texas, is also behind plans for<a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/post\/city-planning-commission-rejects-appeal-westwood-senior-housing-project\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a second senior housing complex that would replace another church parking lot in Westwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social media:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrbanizeLA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/urbanizela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/urbanize-la\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@urbanizela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a> \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/urbanizela\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/urbanizela.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly five years of quiet, plans for senior housing on the parking lot of First Church of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-234094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}