Linc Housing is ready to put its Long Beach headquarters on the chopping block so more local families can get a roof over their heads.
The nonprofit has filed plans with the City of Long Beach to demolish its existing office campus at 3590 Elm Avenue, just north of the 405 Freeway, and replace it with a five-story, roughly 145,000-square-foot affordable housing complex. The project would bring 109 new homes, ground-floor offices and parking for about 69 vehicles, with apartments aimed at households earning roughly 30 to 70 percent of area median income.
According to Urbanize LA, Linc’s May filing outlines a single five-story building that would combine those 109 residential units with on-site offices for the nonprofit, plus the 69 parking spaces. The existing office buildings on the site would be razed to make way for the new construction, shifting the property from a traditional office campus to a primarily residential use with a nonprofit back-of-house component…