The Beehive by SoLa Impact

The Beehive is brought to us by SoLa Impact, a family of social impact real estate funds with a double bottom line strategy focused on preserving, refreshing, and creating high-quality affordable housing in low-income communities.

The Beehive is SoLa Impact's Opportunity Zone (OZ) business campus, comprised of 8 buildings across 104,000 square feet of commercial space located ten minutes south of downtown within LA’s Goodyear Tract. The Beehive has become a cultural and entrepreneurial hub for Black and brown communities through a wide variety of events focused primarily on economic development for minority & female-owned businesses in Los Angeles. Among current Beehive tenants are the first Black-owned craft brewery in California, a Black-owned and designed art gallery, a yoga studio, and a state-of-the-art Technology and Entrepreneurship Center designed by Riot Games to develop future tech and business leaders.

As an adaptive reuse project, The Beehive is inherently sustainable making use of previously built unique and architecturally beautiful red brick warehouses. True to its name, the Beehive incorporates biophilic design throughout campus including drought-tolerant landscaping, community gardens, stormwater capture systems, and a bioswale within the foreground of SoLa Impact’s iconic honeycomb structure. The Beehive’s impressive sustainability features resulted in a Two Green Globes certification by the Green Building Initiative demonstrating a significant achievement in resource efficiency, reducing environmental impacts,and improving occupant wellness.