Developer Adds 118 Units to Costco Project

Thrive Living's updated application for its Baldwin Hills mixed-use project would add housing while trimming parking.

Updated on Nov. 13, 2026 in Construction

Isometric editorial illustration of pale stacked modular housing units rising above a plain low retail base beside a single rail line. — Thrive Living filed an updated application on November 13 to add 118 residential units to its Costco-anchored project at 5035 W. Coliseum Street in Los Angeles. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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Thrive Living filed an updated application with the City of Los Angeles on November 13, 2026, to add 118 residential units to its Costco-anchored project at 5035 W. Coliseum Street. The filing also removes one of five levels of subterranean parking from the original plan.

Why it matters

The revision would expand the number of affordable homes in a project already approved under AB 2011 and located less than a half-mile from Metro's Expo/La Brea Station. For Los Angeles residents, it shows how transit-oriented rules are shaping parking and housing decisions in neighborhoods near rail lines.

The updated plan adds 118 units to a project that already includes 800 apartments and a roughly 145,000-square-foot Costco, with a remaining garage of 1,313 spaces. Whether the city will approve the revised layout has not been reported.

The players

Thrive Living

Thrive Living is a developer behind the Costco-anchored mixed-use project in Baldwin Hills, which is being built with affordable housing and modular construction.

The details

The project at 5035 W. Coliseum Street began work earlier this year and was approved as a six-story building with a 100 percent affordable housing component, using prefabricated modular units. The updated filing relies on the City of Los Angeles' Transit Oriented Communities guidelines to revise the layout of the approved design.

Earlier in 2026: Work began on the project at 5035 W. Coliseum Street.
November 13, 2026: Thrive Living filed its updated application with the City of Los Angeles.

Market Landscape

The project is being built under AB 2011, a state law that allows affordable housing on commercial sites, and this filing applies the city's Transit Oriented Communities guidelines to adjust the approved design. It reflects a broader push to pair dense housing with transit access near Metro's E Line corridor.

For residents, the proposal could mean more affordable apartments near the Expo/La Brea Station and a Costco that shares its site with housing. The reduction in underground parking may affect how many cars the shared garage can accommodate.

The takeaway

Projects near transit increasingly trade parking for housing, and this filing shows how that trade plays out in a single Los Angeles development. Residents interested in how their neighborhoods change may want to track updates from the city's planning review.