George Kutnerian Plans 3,458-Unit Affordable Senior Housing Project in Warner Center

• Wellpointe filed plans for four towers totaling 3,458 units (3,192 senior, 266 staff) at 6400 Canoga Avenue, Woodland Hills — 100% affordable, 100% income-restricted.
• Wellpointe affiliate paid $25.5M ($5.4M/acre) for the 4.71-acre site from Sandstone Properties in February 2026.
• Four towers ranging from 34 to 42 stories, 2.2M SF total; project qualifies for expedited approval under LA's Executive Directive 1.
• Wellpointe is California's largest residential assisted living operator, per the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care.

Wellpointe Goes High-Rise in Warner Center

California's largest residential assisted living operator just made its biggest bet. Wellpointe, the Woodland Hills-based senior housing company co-founded by George Kutnerian, has filed plans with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for a four-tower, 3,458-unit affordable senior complex at 6400 Canoga Avenue, a 4.71-acre site it picked up from Sandstone Properties for $25.5M, or roughly $5.4M per acre, in February 2026.

The scale is a departure for Wellpointe, which built its name on a 66-community portfolio of small-home residential care facilities, mostly three- to four-bedroom houses. What Kutnerian is proposing here is a vertical city block for seniors: four towers standing between 34 and 377 feet on the low end and 42 stories and 467 feet at the peak, encompassing roughly 2.2 million square feet with 61,450 square feet of non-residential space and 823 parking stalls. It's dense in a sector where density is rare.

The Numbers

The project breaks down to 3,192 units reserved for seniors and 266 units for on-site staff. Because it's 100% income-restricted, it qualifies for expedited city approval under Executive Directive 1, the Karen Bass policy made permanent by the LA City Council in December 2025, bypassing the public hearings process entirely. That means Wellpointe avoids one of the most costly and unpredictable parts of the LA entitlement clock.

At $25.5M for the land and 3,458 units proposed, Wellpointe is in at roughly $7,370 per door in land cost, cheap by any metro LA standard for a transit-adjacent parcel. The site sits near the Metro G Line, which has become a central underwriting argument for density across the San Fernando Valley.

What Was There Before

Sandstone Properties, the prior owner, had a different plan for the parcel entirely. The Houston-based firm had proposed a 35-story, 650-unit market-rate residential tower paired with a four-story, 240-room luxury hotel. That vision never moved forward. Sandstone sold the site to a Wellpointe affiliate in February, and what was planned as a luxury play is now proposed as the opposite: all-affordable, all-senior, fully income-restricted.

Warner Center's Big Moment

The Canoga site sits in the middle of what may be the most active development submarket in the San Fernando Valley right now. Around the corner at 6464 Canoga, Toll Brothers won LA City Council approval in late 2025 for an eight-story, 276-unit building with 8,600 square feet of ground-floor commercial — the first project to use density bonus incentives in the Warner Center Specific Plan area. Meta Housing Corp. is building 207 units of affordable housing at 6033 De Soto Avenue, with delivery targeted for 2028. And the Kroenke Organization's Rams Village, a planned $10 billion, 52-acre mixed-use complex anchored by the LA Rams' new headquarters, remains the long-range anchor for the entire district.

Warner Center has collected proposals for years without delivering at scale. Wellpointe's ED1 filing puts it in line for one of the faster approval tracks in the city.

About Wellpointe

Wellpointe was co-founded by George Kutnerian, who serves as CEO, and Angela Kutnerian, who serves as Executive Vice President. The company operates what NIC identifies as the largest portfolio of residential assisted living properties in California, 66 communities built almost entirely around the small-home model. In 2025, the company added 114 units to that portfolio and is targeting 80-plus more by the end of Q2 2027, with Kutnerian publicly guiding toward 200-plus units per year organically beyond that.

The company has also been investing heavily in operational technology through Wellpointe Labs, an internal tech incubator that recently launched MOMS, a medication order management system that cut processing time from 15 minutes per order to seconds and increased medication order throughput by 63% between June 2025 and March 2026. "We're in an arms race now within the industry, whether people realize it or not," Kutnerian said in a May 2026 interview with Senior Housing News. "It's time for the industry to bring that technical talent."

The Warner Center towers would be Wellpointe's first high-rise development and a significant scale-up from its small-home roots. The company is also separately planning a seven-story, 223-unit senior living facility at 14550 Delano Street in Van Nuys.

What's Next

The project is in the filing stage with the LA Department of City Planning. With ED1 status, it bypasses public hearings and moves on an expedited review track. No groundbreaking date has been announced.