Converting Commercial Building to Mixed Use

[Daren Weintraub]

Hi!

Does anyone have insight into what it takes to turn a commercial building into a mixed-use building? Where would I find out about zoning and permits and what types of professionals would need to be involved in this project? It's a 2-story building roughly 7000 sq feet on the first and second floor. It"s is located in Los Angeles Ca in the Melrose neighborhood. Additionally I would like to know if we can build a 3rd story but the zoning is really strict so I'm not sure. What could I do to find out more information?

[David Featherstone]

You can find a lot of great zoning info for any property in the city of LA @ the tax assessor’s website: zimas.lacity.org 

Just search for the property’s  address  (make sure when you search by address that you only put in the address number in the first field and the street name in the second field. i.e. 1234 S Madeup Blvd would be : “1234” in first field and “Madeup” in second field.)

Good luck and keep us posted on what you find out! Let me know if you want help on how to interpret the info from that site!