Five Points Union Project

The Project proposes the redevelopment of the 444-acre Project Site through the Five Points Union Specific Plan (Specific Plan), comprised of a commercial and recreational development (Town Center) on the northern portion of the site, and an industrial development (Industrial Center) on the southern portion of the site. The Town Center would include 337,000 square feet of retail and food service uses (including sit down and drive-through restaurants, grocery store, and a major retailer), a 60,000 square foot indoor sports facility, and other community serving uses such as a 500 square foot police substation and a 5,000 square foot community meeting/work room, totaling 402,500 square feet of floor area, with building heights up to 65 feet. The Town Center would include surface parking and 27 acres of publicly accessible outdoor areas, including three acres of sports fields, two playgrounds, and more than 3.5 miles of walking paths. A new approximately one-mile long sidewalk would also be installed along North Gaffey Street. The Industrial Center has two development options, the Reduced Outdoor Storage Option and the Additional Outdoor Storage Option. Both Options have the same overall uses, massing, site access, and site layout, but vary in the allocation of indoor and outdoor industrial uses within the southern-most portion of the Industrial Center. Building heights would be permitted up to 115 feet. Under the Reduced Outdoor Storage Option, the Project would include the development of up to 5,982,100 square feet of industrial uses; 184,000 square feet of ancillary office uses generally located within the ground floor and mezzanines of the industrial buildings; up to 402,500 square feet of commercial and recreational uses; and approximately 24 acres of outdoor storage uses such as trailer parking and container storage that would be integrated with, and support, the industrial uses, for a total floor area of 6,568,600 square feet. Under the Additional Outdoor Storage Option, Building 8, located on the southeastern portion of the Industrial Center, would be reduced by 664,000 square feet to provide for an increase in the outdoor storage areas from 24 acres to 52 acres. Under this Option, the total floor area would be 5,904,600 square feet. The Project would provide vehicular and pedestrian access improvements, including a new truck tunnel, located near an existing truck tunnel beneath the I-110 Freeway connecting the southeast portion of the Project Site to John S. Gibson Boulevard. Surface parking for vehicles and truck trailers, and landscaped areas would be provided. Approximately 199,700 square feet of existing floor area would be removed, along with the removal of existing large-scale bulk liquid storage tanks, refinery process units, other refinery-related equipment and structures, and equipment related to the storage of liquefied petroleum gas. Demolition and removal activities would be followed by remediation of the Project Site and then construction of new buildings and site improvements.